BAGGAGE CHECK

“Too Much,” on Netflix.

- BY INKOO KANG

“Too Much” cheerfully punctures the American-in-London expat fantasy.

Starting over in New York is a cliché for a reason; so is starting over by leaving it behind. Lena Dunham, who became the poster child for a certain kind of Brooklyn millennial during the run of her first series, “Girls,” recently reflected on her “breakup” with the city in this magazine. Now she’s returned to television with “Too Much,” a romantic comedy about rediscovering oneself by saying goodbye to all that. The show’s protagonist, Jess (Megan Stalter), has little reason to stick around. Her live-in boyfriend, Zev (Michael Zegen), has left her. Her passion for her job, as a producer of TV commercials, is long gone, too. Unattached and adrift, she lives with her sister (Dunham), her mother (Rita Wilson), and her grandmother (Rhea Perlman) in the latter’s Long Island home—a situation that Jess describes as “an intergenerational Grey Gardens hell of single women and one hairless dog.” Jess is obsessed with the animal—a freaky-looking creature named Astrid, whom she’s forever putting in sweaters and dresses—but she’s even more obsessed with Wendy Jones (Emily Ratajkowski), an influencer who's engaged to her ex. Jess transfers to her company’s London office in search of a do-over; even once settled into her Hackney sublet, she sits in bed watching and rewatching a video of Zev’s proposal to Wendy. In the clip, Wendy screams. Three thousand miles away, holding a nightgown-clad Astrid for comfort, Jess screams louder.