Lena Dunham’s New Series, “Too Much” Is Too Much, Indeed
Lena Dunham is nothing if not divisive. When people aren’t dissecting her body or skewering her feminist essays, they’re critiquing her art, accusing her of projecting her own insecurities onto others, or picking apart every clumsy statement she's tried to walk back.
For all of Dunham’s faults and controversies, she’s one of the greatest artists working in Hollywood today. HBO’s GIRLS, the millennial-satire often compared to Sex and The City of the 2010s, was irreverent, bold, clever, and polarizing. Many didn’t get it. Or didn’t want to. To this day, people are dissecting brilliantly written scenes about hot button topics such as abortion, convinced they can reduce the contents of a writer’s complicated thoughts and beliefs into a literal reading of the situation.