Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker has landed his next Netflix project. Brooker is behind an untitled four-part detective series starring House of the Dragon lead Paddy Considine, Game of Thrones star Lena Headey and Georgina Campbell, who worked with Brooker on Black Mirror’s “Hang the DJ” episode. The show’s logline calls it a “profoundly serious, stunningly original crime thriller in …
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Lena Dunham’s ‘Too Much’ Challenges the Funny Fat Lady Trope
Photo-Illustration: Tina Tona; Photographs: Courtesy of Everett Collection; Netflix; Alamy Stock Photo; Getty Images In the first episode of the romantic-comedy series Too Much, heartbroken 30-something Jessica (Megan Stalter) breaks into an apartment she used to live in with her ex, Zev (Michael Zegen). We know this is a mess in the making from the moment she pulls up in …
Read More »Meet the Real Meg Stalter, Star of Lena Dunham’s New Show ‘Too Much’
M eg Stalter was fighting in a hot tub. She had come to a water park in Wisconsin to relax between stops on her comedy tour, which was styled as a series of fake rallies for a rich, famous, and clueless person running for president. (I know this is a difficult political scenario to imagine, but please stay with me.) …
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