Lena Dunham is back behind the scenes on the small screen.
The multihyphenate has debuted the trailer for her upcoming Netflix rom-com series Too Much, out July 10, starring Megan Stalter and Will Sharpe.
In the preview, viewers see Stalter’s Jessica move to London in search of her “English dream” after a bad break-up in New York.
Though she initially feels like she’s “in hell” as she hears her loud neighbors fighting in her U.K. apartment, Jessica’s quickly charmed by musician Felix (Sharpe).
The trailer shows Jessica and Felix spending more time together as he wonders if she’s “one of those Love Actually girls” and they go on a tour of a picturesque neighborhood, which is less appealing to Felix.
“This is the London I came here for,” Jessica says as the trailer shows her posing in front of a blue door. “It’s like out of a movie.”
Felix interjects, “Yeah, horror movie — these people are full of pent up rage and dark secrets,” as Jessica excitedly points out a yellow house.
Via voiceover, viewers learn more about the heartbreak that Jessica’s dealing with, as she says, “I came here to find myself. A lot of stuff went down in New York. My ex-boyfriend is living with another woman right now.”
Still this sparks some dark flirting between her and Felix.
He quips, “Do you want me to murder them?”
Jessica jokingly replies, “Yeah, I want you to cut their heads off and sew them back on.”
Still Jessica is concerned about Felix being a “walking series of red flags,” as Netflix teases.
Here’s the full synopsis from the streamer: “Jessica (Megan Stalter) is a New York workaholic in her mid-thirties, reeling from a broken relationship that she thought would last forever and slowly isolating everyone she knows. When every block in New York tells a story of her own bad behavior, the only solution is to take a job in London, where she plans to live a life of solitude like a Bronte sister. But when she meets Felix (Will Sharpe) — a walking series of red flags — she finds that their unusual connection is impossible to ignore, even as it creates more problems than it solves. Now they have to ask themselves: do Americans and Brits actually speak the same language? From the creator of Girls and the producers of Love Actually, Too Much is an ex-pat rom-com for the disillusioned who wonder if true love is still possible, but sincerely hope that it is.”
Dunham co-created Too Much with husband Luis Felber, who she met and married in the U.K., where she’s been living for the past few years, and the show has been called “semi-autobiographical.”
At a Netflix event in London earlier this year, Dunham teased, “some of my own experiences did kick start the concept for the show.”
Dunham serves as writer-director for Too Much and executive produces alongside her Good Thing Going Production company partner Michael P. Cohen as well as Working Title’s Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Surian Fletcher-Jones and Bruce Eric Kaplan. Camilla Bray is the producer of the Universal International Studios show.
In addition to Stalter and Sharpe, the series’ cast includes Michael Zegan, Janicza Bravo, Richard E. Grant, Leo Reich, Daisy Bevan, Adele Exarchopoulos, Dean-Charles Chapman, Rita Wilson, Naomi Watts, Prasanna Puwanarajah, Andrew Rannells, Rhea Perlman, Emily Ratajkowski, Stephen Fry, Kaori Momoi and Adwoa Aboah.
Netflix also announced Wednesday that the following actors have joined the show as guest stars: Andrew Scott, Jennifer Saunders, Kit Harington, Rita Ora and Jessica Alba.
