Too Much (Netflix): Relatable or immature?

This week on Binge Yap Repeat, we yap about Too Much, Lena Dunham’s tender, messy, surprisingly swoony new Netflix series starring Megan Stalter and Will Sharpe. We get into the show's exploration of healing from past relationship trauma, all the tiny cute moments between the leads, and some familiar faces! Plus: we spot some character patterns between creators like Lena Dunham, Mindy Kaling, and Jenny Han.

BYR average rating: 7.25/10

Number of episodes: 8 (~6h runtime)

Binge in progress: Trader Joe's snacks and The Summer I Turned Pretty

Episode Transcript

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Hey Appers, today's episode is all about Too Much, the brand
new Netflix comedy series created by Lena Dunham, starring
Megan Stalter and Will Sharp. We break down the various love
stories and how we heal from past relationships and traumas.
We chat through some revealing parallels between the show and

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Lena Dunham's real life, and we also spend some time discussing
insecurities, projections, and some character patterns between
creators like Lena Dunham, MindyKaling, and Jenny Hahn.
Buckle in, yappers, and let's get started.
Hello fellow yappers, I'm Ruchi.And I'm Shalini and we're your
hosts. A binge, yap, repeat.

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We're two best friends who spendan embarrassing amount of time
binge watching TV, and honestly,we just need to talk about it.
If you're here, we're guessing you do too.
Fair warning, this is a spoiler friendly zone.
We will be discussing lots of spoilers, so if you haven't
watched the show yet, hit pause,go binge, and come back when

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you're ready to yap with us. And now it's yap time.
How's it going? You know what?

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It's going pretty good. Can't complain.
I didn't really do very much today, actually.
I cleaned out my whole kitchen pantry cabinet and organized it.
Yappers for context, Shalini right now is fun employed so.
Yep, this is the riveting stuff of a fun, employed gal.

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I've lived in my apartment for two years and we just resigned
for a third year and I haven't touched like the back of my
snacks cabinet in so long. So I cleaned it all out.
Nothing was moldy, it was just very messy, you know?
So I just cleaned it all out, reorganized it, threw some stuff
away, and now it's like just so much better.

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Nice. Wow I can't believe it's been 2
years and some change now. I know, I know.
Yeah, time flies. Time flies.
I'm trying to think of a good transition moment for too much.
The amount of stuff in my snackscabinet was too much.

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Yes, so today we are talking about the new Netflix romantic
comedy television series Too Much.
The story of Too Much is about Jessica, who is a New York
workaholic who is reeling from abroken relationship.
She takes a job in London where she plans to live like a Bronte

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sister. But she meets Felix, who is a
walking series of red flags, andtheir unusual connection is
impossible to ignore. The television series was
created by Lena Dunham and Louise Felber, and it stars
Megan Stalter as Jessica and Will Sharp as Felix, and it was

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released on Netflix on July 10th, 2025.
Shalini, what did you think? I'm so curious.
So as you know, about 5 minutes in to starting episode 1, I
texted you and I was like Ruchi.I think I hate this show and it

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was for a few reasons. I will say by the end it grew on
me, but it took basically until the very end to grow on me.
I think a few reasons I hated it.
One, I just I'm not a huge fan of the very crude Lena Dunham
comedy. I think when the main character,
her sister, her mom and her grandma were all in that room

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and she was like, oh grandma, why don't you just suck him off
or whatever. And like was making jokes about
her grandma giving her ex-boyfriend a blowjob.
I was like, this isn't I'm not finding this funny.
And then when she was blaming Wendy Jones for everything wrong
in her life, I was like, what isthis like 1999?
Why are we blaming the other woman?

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And it was just, nothing was fitting right for me.
I just, I didn't find it funny. I didn't like the message I was
getting from anything. And yeah, but then by the end, I
think a her coming around to Wendy and, like, giving her a
chance and Wendy actually being awesome was one saving grace.

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Another saving grace was that I actually really liked Felix's
character, and he was really sweet.
And I liked how they showed the honeymoon period kind of turning
into this conflict where they'renot sure how much to let each
other in kind of thing, and thenkind of coming to a resolution.
Thought that was very realistic.And yeah, yeah.
So I started finding it more pleasant as the show went on,

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and then I ended up liking it more than I disliked it.
Do you think there is a specificturning point for you in the
show where you were like, oh, OK, now I'm starting to see the
point and now I kind of get it? Or was it just a gradual OK, and
then by the end, when the conversation with Wendy
happened, you're like, OK, the show, the show kind of found its

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way in the end. Mostly gradual.
I will say one turning point forme was the episode where they
stay up all night talking. I thought that was really cute.
And I was like, oh, I kind of, Ilike, I miss this feeling of
like, it doesn't matter how early I have to wake up
tomorrow. Like this is more important than

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anything kind of thing when you first meet someone.
So, yeah, I thought that was very cute.
So that was one turning point where I was like, OK, OK, I'm
giving this a chance. And then by the end I was like,
OK, I continued to improve. Yeah, I think for me there
actually was a distinct turning point.
So I felt very similar to you inthe beginning.

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I actually, I didn't watch Girls.
I don't know, I guess I'm not a huge fan of Lena Dunham.
Spoiler alert, Maybe I am now. I'm not sure to be honest.
But the beginning episodes, I would say the first two episodes
definitely felt very Lena Dunhamfrom whatever like half episodes
that I've seen of Girls. It was very reminiscent of that.

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I think there the turning point for me.
I can't, I think it was an episode 2 or 3.
She is having dinner with that pop artist or actor guy, I can't
remember. She's having her first work
dinner with that random guy and she goes off on this monologue
about how she doesn't like the term about being a mess.

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And she just like, kind of goes off on him.
And also represents the average woman experience.
Not average woman experience, but average woman experience.
And I think I felt, I felt very,I felt very connected to Jessica
after that moment because I was like, oh, OK, yeah, she is

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speaking for how women generallyfeel.
But I felt like before that, I wasn't really getting it.
I felt like she wasn't really speaking for me and I wasn't
really relating to her. I think that Lena Dunham kind of
represents the average white woman experience, and so that's
why I never felt very connected to her.
But she writes from the white woman experience like it is the

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average woman experience. And I think there were a couple
lines that really that rubbed methe wrong way that I was like,
oh, the show, I don't know if the show was written for me.
So some examples of that. There was one line that was
like, every woman has been told that they're not a model or
something like that. Does that ring a bell for you?
Yeah. Yeah, it was, I can't remember

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what it was, but it was like, oh, every woman has been told
that they're not a model. And I'm like, literally no one
has told me that. Like, I and I, I didn't know if
it was something around like shewas making a point about her
size or like how women are supposed to be like super skinny
like all the time, and that's why they've never felt like
there were a model size. And I'm like, no, nobody at my

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math competitions was telling methat I wasn't a model, you know?
So I think there was like that aspect.
It felt very similar to when I was in when I was in school.
And like, you know, we're in school, we're like women in STEM
and we're like becoming good little engineers.
When I joined, like the big company that I work for right

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now, they kept being like, Oh myGod, you're a woman and you're
an engineer. Isn't that crazy?
And I'm like, I didn't think it was crazy until you told me that
it was crazy. And now I'm like, I'm confused.
Like And they kept being like, oh, you're a freaking Unicorn.

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And I'm like, am I? And like, that's kind of how it
felt for this, where they're like, Oh my God, you're an
average size woman. And so now you're part of this
crazy elite club that's been so underrepresented and we're doing
our best to represent you. And it's mind blowing.
What we're doing is like we're representing the average woman

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experience. And I never like I, it was just
something I've never thought about.
And I don't know if that's a blessing.
And I've been so privileged to like, never really think about
that or if that's the experiencethat Lena Dunham is going.
For yeah, I definitely agree with a lot of what you said.
I think she does. She definitely writes from the

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perspective of my experience, must be what every woman is
experiencing. And actually her lack of racial
and ethnic diversity and representation in girls got a
lot of criticism because of that, even though, like it's
said in New York and New York issuch a diverse city.
So she's definitely like, I she probably took some pointers

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after girls. But yeah, I, I definitely agree
with what you said about that. And I do think, I don't know if
this is her intention, but I think she writes in a way where
I'm like, do you think we are going to like your main
character despite everything shedoes just because she's a mid
size woman? Because like I actually really

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disliked a lot of Jessica's choices and I did not like her
as a character until towards theend.
And like when we saw more of theback story, I think.
But I was like, OK, just becauseshe's like a relatable physical
physique and appearance doesn't make her lovable.
And like, you're not making her lovable at all.

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Yeah, I think what helped me relate to Jessica Moore was the
title of the show. So I think Jessica is supposed
to be someone that is too much, right?
She is supposed to be someone who's super over the top.
But at the end of the day, her heart's in the right place.
And maybe her actions don't reflect the genuinity that is in

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her heart, but I think her heart's in the right place.
And so I think I kind of have to, I had to kept keep reminding
myself of that of like, OK, now,like the character was written
in a way that she is supposed tobe too much.
He is supposed to be a lot. But the point of the show is
that even for this person who society keeps saying like, you

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need to tone it down. You, you can't be like this all
the time. Even her boss, Jono was like,
here are the things that you need to do that will help you in
your life and your career. In spite of all of that, she
meets someone who doesn't think that way about her.
He thinks she's exactly enough and and she feels the same way

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about him, right? He's also not really accepted or
listened to by his family and he's kind of just going through
life making decisions on his own.
Sometimes they're really bad andthey have really bad
consequences. But even then, even in spite of
all that, Jessica is like, yeah,you, you're the one for me and

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you're not too much for me. So I think there is a lot of
beauty in that story. I agree with that.
I I do think there's a lot of beauty in that story, but I
don't think too much equals extremely annoying and selfish,
and I think they showed Jessica as extremely annoying and
selfish. I think a great example of a
very lovable character that is also quote UN quote too much is

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Max from Ginny in Georgia. You know, she's so lovable
because she's obviously a very dramatic person, but she's so
selfless, like, will do anythingfor her friends, just wants to
be seen. And I think that's the issue I
had with this was that Jessica, like, left Felix's show early.
She, like, really made everything about herself.

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And obviously that stems from a place of insecurity based on her
past experiences, which I totally get.
But I think there just wasn't enough redeeming character for
her for me to be like, OK, like,I love that someone's finally
accepting her for who she is because I was like, she, she has
work to do also. Yeah, for sure.
So OK, actually Speaking of insecurities, I read this

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article. Or let me be clear, I read the
title of the article and did notfeel inclined to read more of
it. But I want to hear your thoughts
on this. So it was aukstylist.co.uk
article and the headline was. It's refreshing to see a plus
size story lead whose story has nothing to do with her weight.

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Would you agree or disagree withthis statement?
I do agree with that. I liked that nothing about the
story had anything to do with her weight.
Her weight was not a topic of conversation at all.
Yeah. And I think my answer to this is
it is and it isn't. So I agree with you.
I think the story was not directly about her weight, but

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also Jessica did have a lot of insecurities, which you
mentioned, right. And looking at her family life,
like her family is so loving andso caring to her that you're
like, OK, where are where are these insecurities coming from?
And you as the audience are not told this, but you kind of
insinuate that it must be because her it's her weight.

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But you're like not, it's never really said explicitly.
So you're like, I don't know where these insecurities are
coming from, but I feel like it's it might be her weight.
And you're like, question mark. I don't know.
So one quote that really, I think highlighted Jess's,
Jessica's insecurities was therewas a flashback where she meets

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Zev, I think after they first met Zev, like, comes to her
place of work and, like, picks her up or something and says, I
love you. And then Jessica says, I never
dreamed of being loved by Someone Like You.
And then I was, like, said to anaverage white dude with a gap in
his teeth. Like, what do you mean?

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What do you mean? You're.
You're great, Jessica, What do you mean you've never dreamed of
being loved by someone like him?So I guess I was a little
confused about that, too. And I was like, oh, there's some
insecurity going on here, but I was, yeah.
OK, I, I actually don't know if her insecurity, I don't know if

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the intent was to show that her insecurity spawned from her
weight. My interpretation was that like,
she just, you know, he's a conventionally attractive man,
Jewish man. I mean, OK, yeah, debatable, I
guess. But he like, fits the mold of
what her family is looking for. Probably.

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So that's kind of how I interpreted it.
I also think her insecurities post Zev had nothing to do with
her weight actually and all had to do with just like how Zev
treated her and made her feel completely unwanted.
And I think I mean you saw at the end like he made Wendy feel
that way also. So I don't think I don't know

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because I also want to check myself and be like, am I
projecting what she's insecure about because that's also
something that I can feel insecure about at times.
Or is that was that on purpose? I don't know.
But I think most of her insecurities were by how Zev
treated her and she just like has trauma from her past
relationship. And then now I'm worried that

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because we're talking about her weight so much, we're making it
a way bigger deal than it shouldbe and we're ruining the point
of it not being talked about. Yeah, that's true.
That's kind of what I think too.I'm like, am I now showing that
I I also have bias about lookingat an average sized woman and
then just assuming that these insecurities that she has are

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about her weight? Am I the problem?
Maybe this is the point that Lena Dunham is trying to make.
I'm not sure, but, yeah, I mean,I, I think I agree with your
point that a lot of her insecurities did stem from being
in a relationship with Zev for seven years, which is crazy.
But yeah, I think that's why that line stood out so much to

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me. It's because, oh, she had these
insecurities from before. And it seems like she was at
some point like a rock star at her job.
And we kind of saw that at the end.
So she exuded confidence and, and like telling people what to
do. And she has like, an amazing
personality that her family loves and adores.

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And I don't like, I don't know if she has a lot of friends.
We didn't really get into that in New York.
Like if she had like, an amazingfriend group or whatever.
But yeah, that's why I feel likethere's no reason for her to
have insecurities at that point.So what could it be?
And then we never really got an answer to that.
Yeah, yeah. No, that's super fair.
Yeah, Oh yes, also the gap in his teeth.

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Fun fact is, I think they had talked about this too.
It's called a diastema. And when he mentioned it the
first time, I was like, what does that mean?
And I actually looked it up and it literally means a gap between
your teeth. And I was like, oh.
Dias gap Teema teeth, I don't know.
And then you mentioned that episode where they were staying

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up super late and she was like, this is way more important to me
than any meeting, right? I actually got so much anxiety
from that episode because I was like her 8:30 meeting, her 8:30
meeting. It's it's 11:00 PM, they should
be winding down for a sleep now.And then it was like oh they
fucking again, it's 1:00 AM. They should really really be

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winding down for a sleep becausethey'll at least get 7 hours
before the 8:30 meeting. Oh they fucking again and I was
like it's 4:00 AM. This is the point in the episode
where I I was watching at night.I turned off the episode and I
went to bed. I went to bed before they did.
Yeah, very anxiety. As a fellow I must go to sleep

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now person. I also felt anxiety during that
episode. Yeah, but.
Then afterwards they didn't evenshow any like repercussions of
her making or not making the meeting I don't even know she
made. It she was in love.
Gosh, her. Meeting.
Let's be real, she was not thereto be committed to work.

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Yeah, well, this is also why I was a little bit confused
because I wrote down this bulletpoint of Oh my God, did she miss
her meeting? And then the sub bullet was
three question marks, no mentionof the meeting.
And then sub bullet. Wait, what?
Is she actually doing well at work now?
Because then there was just a time skip and he's like, hey,
you've been like fitting in withthe team really well.

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And I was like, what? She missed her meeting.
That's fair. Did you enjoy?
OK, if she didn't have an 8:30 meeting, would you have enjoyed
their them falling in love in one night?
Oh, for sure. Yeah.
Yeah. I loved it.
But I was just really fixated onthe 8:30 meeting.

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Yeah, if it were a Friday night going into Saturday, you do you,
girl. OK, I I also wanted to talk
through like, all of the different, like, relationships.
So Jessica and Felix's relationship, Jessica and Zevs,
Wendy and Zev maybe. Or yeah.
What did you think about just Jessica and Felix in general?

(21:13):
I really liked their relationship.
I thought like, they both, they really see each other for who?
Well, actually, I want to say Felix really sees Jessica for
who she is and loves everything about her.
And I thought that was so sweet that like how deeply he sees
her. I can't really tell how much she

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really sees and understands Felix.
I'm open to being pushed back onthat, but I don't know if they
showed a lot of her being there for him in a very deep way.
Yeah. In like a way that would help
his insecurities and like, you know, stuff like that.
She tried to comfort him when hetold her about his childhood

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trauma of being sexually abused.So I guess there's that.
But she didn't do a great job ofit and kind of made it about
herself. But yeah, otherwise I thought it
was really sweet. I really liked the I know it was
really cheesy, but I liked when he was like, you're not very
kind to yourself. For example, this like cold
noodles and you don't dry your curtains.

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And she's like, but how will I know it's morning, I'll just
keep sleeping. And he's like, I'll be your
curtains. I thought that was so.
Cute. Yeah.
He was so sweet to her. I agree.
It really felt like he understood her.
He was, you know, telling her all the things that she didn't
have to do to abuse herself, basically, where he was like,

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you don't have to eat cold noodles.
And then a little bit later on in that episode, after they had
sex, the 8:30 AM episode, she's like, eating cold noodles from
the fridge. And it's like, what's going on
here, girl? Yeah, I, I think I agree.
I feel like he totally saw her. He was there comforting her in
the exact ways that she needed to be comforted.

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And I didn't see it from the other side.
Or maybe we did. I think what I saw was, yeah,
actually, maybe we did. So what I saw was he was asking
for space and he was asking for her to kind of like be there for
him and give him the emotional support.

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But she just kind of was like, you know, crashing open doors,
bulldozing over everything and being like, tell me about what
happened, what's going on, what's wrong?
So I think one thing that got closest to that was after he
came home from his family, meeting, his family dinner.

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And then he just like, looked ather and was like, hey.
And then she was like, what's wrong?
What happened? Like what's going on?
So I think she was able to see him for for like what he needed.
But I think I didn't really identify with the ways that she
did that because it felt like me, it felt like to me he was

(24:08):
setting up boundaries, being like, I just need 5 minutes.
I just need one minute. And even at the end of the
episode, he was at the end of the season, he was like, I just
need one minute after Asterisk died.
And she was like, no, like, crying all over him and like,
still trying to like, yeah, like, beat down those, those

(24:29):
doors. So I thought that was weird.
Yeah, no, I totally agree. Her recognizing that he's upset,
I would not call that. Her seeing him, I would call
that being a person who's not completely apathetic, but the
the seeing him part should come from recognizing that he does
need space and that that's how he processes his emotions as he

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needs to sit in a corner and process his feelings.
And he'll come to her when he's ready, not her like bulldozing
until he gives in. So yeah, I think that's more
evidence that she doesn't reallyknow how to take care of him.
Yeah. But I guess like, the antithesis
is that we saw that his family is very distant towards him, and

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growing up, he was molested by his nanny, which was really
heartbreaking to see. So I think from that lens,
because he was left alone for a majority of his childhood.
And when he was left alone, likebad things happened to him and
he didn't really have any other choice.
It's not like anyone else was beating down the doors to get to

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him. That's kind of how he knows how
to cope with things. And so she is now the only
person in his life that is like beating down those doors and
coming to him no matter what he says.
I think for me personally, that would be really annoying.
But that's also because I know myself and I know how to
communicate and I can accuratelycommunicate what I need.
So it's like if I need 5 minutes, I'm going to take 5

(25:55):
minutes. But maybe for him, it's not like
that. That's so fair.
Yeah, I think that's a really good point.
And I completely concede everything I said.
I think that goes to show that Icould not date a Felix because
I'd be like, oh, you need 5 minutes.
So yeah, yeah, exactly. Just like knows what they need.

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Yeah, whereas like Jessica's family life is very much
actually, we saw this scene too,where Jessica's mom, even though
she's ready to go on a date withDane and she's very excited
about this date, Nora's upstairsin bed and and calls her mom and
it's like emergency. And then her mom comes up and
was like, why did you call me for this?
But then also it's like, dude, you need to get a grip on your

(26:42):
life. Like why are you still in bed?
Like you need to get up, you need to show up for your son.
And like the I see in that moment, the mom is like banging
down those doors, being like Nora, like get up.
And so I think Jessica being raised in that environment,
she's then like bringing that toFelix and the sense of like we

(27:03):
are a family. Like we need to be connected to
each other. Like I need you to know that I'm
here for you, but also what you're doing is self sabotage
and you can't do that. That's definitely her entire
family's style. For sure.
Yeah. What did you think about So,
one, how do you agree with Jessica's decision to take Felix

(27:26):
back after he tells her that he cheated on her with a much older
woman? And two, how did you feel about
Jessica and Felix getting married at the end?
I thought it made sense that sheimmediately kicked him out when
he told her that he cheated on her.
I also think it was fair for herto take him back.

(27:47):
I think it shows that she understands the complexity of
being an addict or like, you know, just relapsing and, and
just having to fight this battleall the time.
And like, when you do relapse, it's, it's some things are out
of your control. Not that it's an excuse, but
that, you know, he, he understands that what he did was

(28:09):
wrong and he's trying to take accountability.
So I thought it was nice that she took him back.
So I'm on her side for that one.I'm getting married though.
I'm like, how long have you guysbeen together?
Like 3 weeks? Just kidding, I know it's longer
than that, but. A month?

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Excuse me. That's a good question, though I
actually don't know how long they were together.
I feel like I'm the order of months.
Yeah, like. Six months.
Nine months, It's just so fast and I don't know, actually,
wait. I do want to look up how long
Lena and her husband were together before they got

(28:51):
married. Like.
The character or actually Lena? Actually, Lena, OK, so we can
talk about this more when we go through kind of the real life
parallels to Lena Dunham's life,but she and Lewis Felber, who
Felix was loosely based on, started dating early 2021,

(29:11):
specifically January or Februaryapparently, and they got married
in September 2021. Wow.
OK. So very similar parallel.
That makes a lot of sense then because I think when they showed
that like wedding scene, I was like there is no real reason for
them to get married, to be honest, as characters.

(29:33):
But I think understanding that there are parallels to real
life, then it makes sense that they would have that happy
ending. I think also with Jessica and
Felix, I felt like the beginningof their relationship.
I think I didn't really understand how it got so intense
so quickly. I think there was a lot of

(29:56):
telling rather than showing. Maybe I just felt like, oh, we,
we know. We just now have to believe that
they are like, locked in in it to win it because basically
right after they met, Felix started going around and, like,
breaking up with other people. Yeah.
I I don't know what it was either because that that also

(30:16):
happened before their night of falling in love, right?
It's not like they had like super deep conversations or
super unique conversations that would really set their
relationship apart from other people.
Because from the first night that they met, she tried to kiss
him, he said no, then he goes away.
Then she lights herself on fire,comes back, it takes care of the

(30:40):
dog and then breaks her out of the hospital.
And then it's suddenly like, everything's different.
And I was like, but it was a lotof action for sure.
It was very memorable in that way.
But I don't know about actually having that deep connection.
I I felt like we as the audiencewere just supposed to like, go
with it. Yeah, I am not sure either.

(31:02):
I mean, from his on his side, itsounds like he does this a lot
with women where it's always on to the next kind of a getaway
car situation, if you will. So maybe for him that was just
his character and like, for whatever reason, Jessica stuck

(31:24):
and where the other woman didn't.
And maybe from Jessica's perspective, she was just like
craving that connection with someone so much after years of
feeling disconnected with Zev. But she was like, Oh my gosh, I
feel connected to someone. Like we've been together 2 days
but he's my guy. Yeah, I don't know.

(31:45):
I guess we were just like, meantto accept that.
But what did you think about herand Zev's relationship?
I was kind of shocked that they were together for seven years.
Yeah, which would actually put Jessica at age 36, I guess, when
the show started because Zev, Oh, maybe, maybe only slightly

(32:08):
older than that because Zev saidI love you to her on her 29th
birthday. And then they said they were
together for seven years. So maybe worst case, he said I
love you to her after like a year of dating, which also seems
kind of long. And then so she's like 35 when
she goes to London. Well, I can't believe she's that

(32:31):
old. Wow.
Yeah, girl. Yeah.
I really thought that she was like early 30s.
Yeah, at the oldest, I would say.
Yeah, I really loved learning about her and Zev's
relationship. I thought it was absolutely so

(32:53):
realistic for a relationship of your.
I mean, I thought of it as a relationship in your 20s.
I totally forgot. He said I love you on her 29th
birthday. Yeah.
I thought it was very realistic of a relationship in your 20s
where everything's bright and sunny when you're not, like,
thinking too critically about the future.
And then you get together and then suddenly it's been like

(33:14):
five years and you're like, whoa, where did time go?
Why am I with this person? Am I even happy?
And you just start like he just he just started completely
taking her for granted. He stopped seeing her or her
needs. He started seeing her needs as a
burden. And I don't know, I don't I I

(33:35):
guess they didn't really show like if she was doing much for
him question mark. But yeah, I really liked how
they showed that. And I also I thought how it
ended was also very realistic. I thought they made him more
cruel than hopefully the averagelike death by 1000 cuts type

(33:56):
breakup is. But overall, yeah, very well
depicted. Yeah, for sure.
I feel like this was one of the like most accurate.
I really like the way that they did the storytelling about the
relationship because you just are thrown into it as an
audience being like, oh, he cheated on her.

(34:17):
What a scumbag, right? And then you then you're like,
oh, wait, they were together forseven years.
And then you actually get the full picture and you're like,
how can this person that you seeat the very beginning who's so
loving, who goes to the family dinners, massages, the grandma's
fee, says that Jessica would be a a great mom to like 7 kids or

(34:41):
something. How do you go from that to the
the cheating scumbag that we sawin the beginning of the of the
series? And then you saw that transition
kind of happened. So I really like the way that
they did the storytelling there.I thought it was really good.
Yes, yeah. Someone who was in a very long
term relationship for like 4 years, I thought the depiction

(35:02):
of the beginning where like he'smaking a huge effort with the
family and everything so rosy and then by the end it's like a
skeleton of what the relationship once was and it's
just a given that they're still together.
Like I don't think he ever wouldhave broken up with her.
He just would have been so miserable if she didn't take the
reins and like just being like, oh, this is my life and I'm

(35:24):
upset about it and I'll take it out on you.
I like, yeah, we're definitely elements of that towards the end
of our relationship to where it's like, how did we come so
far from where we started four years ago?
No, but I think, I mean, I have not been in a long term
relationship like that before, but I, I feel similar like it,

(35:44):
it must every long term relationship that ends like that
must go down in a very similar way of like there was a reason
that we were together for so long and it wasn't because we
tolerated each other. It's because we actually did
love each other like very strongly for a long, long time.
And then over time we just became different people and grew

(36:05):
apart. And it is really sad to have
that conversation of like, Hey, we have to call it like, I think
we know that it's been dead for a while.
And actually, it was a poor choice of words because the way
that Jessica and Zev's relationship ended was also

(36:27):
pretty crazy. I did not know that there was an
abortion involved. Like, that was a crazy twist.
Do you think that the babies wasZev or do you think it was at
random guys? I don't know, I feel like it was
random dudes because I'm also curious how often she and Zev
were even having sex. You know?

(36:48):
It's probably like once a month if they were lucky and it wasn't
very good. You know, now that I think about
it, I wonder if Seth knew that because if they weren't having
sex and then he she's like, I have to get an abortion.
And Seb's like, yeah, wow, I don't really think about that.
I have a question for you as a dog owner.

(37:11):
What did you think of the cutesyscene?
So that was like, the one of themajor turning points in Jessica
and Zev's relationship, where Jessica really wants this dog.
They adopt this dog, cutesy, andJessica has to go, like, take
her for a walk. And then Zev and Jessica are

(37:32):
walking cutesy and cutesy, like,starts barking at this random
dog. And then the dog owner, his mom
gets upset and she, like, goes off on Jessica.
So yeah, as a dog owner, what isyour thought on that?
Who was in the wrong, actually? OK, so am I remembering this
correctly where Jessica let Cutesy approach the dog and then

(37:53):
Cutesy was unfriendly? Or was it that the friendly dog
approached Cutesy and then Cutesy snapped back?
I think cutesy approached the dog.
OK, I think in that case it was Jessica's fault because she must
know by then that cutesy is not friendly with all dogs.
A lot of people actually say youshould never let dogs greet each

(38:14):
other on leash. My dog happens to be fine with
other dogs on leash because the leash they see as, like, you're
holding me back. So like, there's a reason you're
holding me back. And, you know, And so I
definitely think Jessica was in the wrong there.
That being said, that Lady did not need to scream at her like

(38:35):
that. That was so unnecessary.
And, like, her dog was fine. So just be like, oh, next time
you should not approach. Like, yeah, that's all that
needed to be said, but it definitely was Jessica's fault
if if Cutesy was the one that approached.
OK, I yeah, I think it was cutesy that approached, but
Yapper is correct if we're wrong.

(38:57):
And if it was the other dog thatapproached, then like lady, it's
your fault for letting your dog approach any random fucking dog.
Like it's not Jessica's fault that her dog happened to be
unfriendly. Yeah, true, But at the end of
the day, the lady did not have to go off on Jessica and Zev did
not have to go off on Jessica. Yeah, one random thing.

(39:20):
It took them so long to say Astrid's name on the show, like
the entire first, I don't know, two or three episodes.
I was like, why isn't anyone asking what this dog's name is?
I want to know this dog's name. Nobody asked.
It was crazy. I didn't even clock that.
I was just like ugly ass dog Astrid.

(39:41):
More like ugly ass turd. Oh.
My God, her stupid little tongueshe went to.
Pick her at the shelter, she waslike perfect and Astrid's like.
I just think that people these days have such an obsession over
ugly things. I feel this.

(40:03):
Yes, I feel this way about Lib Boo Boo.
Oh my gosh, don't tell Lizzie. Sorry, Izzy.
Yeah, the little Boo boos, I'm like, they're ugly, right?
And then even like, even Crocs, even like, like really chunky
sneakers. I never understood them.
Like they're so ugly, you guys. Why?

(40:25):
No, everyone really likes ugly cute.
Now they're like, it's so ugly that it's cute.
I do like. Punky sneakers.
I think they make legs look skinny.
I don't think they make my legs look skinny.
I think it's like chunk on chunk.
That's like. 3 chunks now. Yeah, it's like, it's like

(40:48):
chocolate chip cookies with a whipped cream on the top.
OK Oh, I have some fun facts. So one fun fact, New York fun
fact is that Jess meets Zev at this place called Alligator
Lounge. Yes, I've heard of that place.
Yes, it was also scene of the crime in the Rehearsal with

(41:12):
Nathan Fielder. Yeah, but the thing about
Alligator Lounge is that they they do give you a little pizza
ticket with your with their drinks.
So if you get a drink, you get alittle free pizza.
And to be honest, the pizza at Alligator Lounge is quite good.
They were right. They got the ratios right.
Yeah, they get it right. Yes, and also my former roommate

(41:36):
Nihal. We went to Alligator Lounge and
they have trivia there and we won at trivia.
Oh, is this the episode in the rehearsal about trivia?
Yes, yeah, OK. OK, yeah, the trivia guy.
OK. Yeah, where they practice all of
the trivia questions beforehand.Yeah, got it. 01 quote that I

(41:59):
really loved was when Jessica was telling Felix that she loved
him, she said. I wish there were other words
and a new way to say it. I thought that was really nice.
Yeah, that was really sweet. I feel like everyone feels this
way when they're falling in love, you know, with, I feel

(42:20):
like every time you fall in love, it's, it's different
because you've learned from yourprevious relationship.
And so you, you don't want to say the same words because it's
a different feeling. Yeah.
In the end, it all comes down tojust how do I express this,
like, deep emotion that I'm feeling, even though it's deeper
than it was before. It has to be the same words, but

(42:40):
what it means is now different to me.
I thought that was a beautiful way of saying that.
And it was beautiful. Yeah.
Because every time you love a new person, the love is so
different. But those it's the same word.
Yeah, yeah, especially for her being like being with Sev before
and now being in such a different new, I guess secure

(43:04):
ish kind of love with Felix. And then my heart was also
broken when he was like, I don'tknow how to say it back.
But then we found out that thosewords were something weaponized.
Yeah. Weaponized.
So yeah, it was. I think my heart really broke
because it was like, oh, I wish there were other words and a new

(43:25):
way to say it. And.
And she was thinking of something else, but he was
thinking of something very different.
So he probably also was like, yeah, I, I too wish there were
different words, but yeah. There were some fun cameos.
Well, I don't, I guess we shouldn't call them cameos.
They were just side characters that I recognized from other

(43:46):
things. So first of all, Jessica's mom
is played by Rita Wilson, who isTom Hanks's wife, and also
played Marnie's mom in Girls. So there's a bit of a Lena
Dunham universe thing going on there.
I noticed there were a lot of characters that were similar in

(44:08):
Girls in this show as well. Because wasn't, well, Lena
Dunham herself was Nora, and then wasn't Nora's husband also
in Girls? Yes, he was in Girls.
His real name is Andrew Rannells.
Rannells. And he played Elijah in Girls,
Yes. Yeah.
I was also shocked that he was playing a straight.

(44:28):
Well, I guess by man, Yeah, because I've only seen him play
like very gay characters. You know, I did get that vibe
from him, but they made it work.They made it work.
Then we had OK, this was a deep cut, but did you recognize the

(44:50):
lady that was Felix's ex at the wedding with the daughter
Hyacinth? She looked familiar, but I
couldn't place her. OK, her name is Sonoya Mizuno
and she played ERA mentally in Crazy Rich Asians.
Oh. OK, I see.

(45:11):
The Bride. And actually it was a wild
journey figuring that out because my sister and I just
watched Crazy Rich Asians on I think Friday or Saturday or
something. And then I saw this girl in the
show the next day and I was like, that looks like Araminta,
Is that Araminta? And then I went to her IMDb and
too much showed up, but Crazy Rich Asians did not.

(45:35):
And then I was like, huh, Then who played the woman in Crazy
Rich Asians? And then I went to the Crazy
Rich Asians cast on Google and found air mentally.
And then it said the Noya Mizuno.
And then I was like, oh, so it was her.
And then I went to her Wikipediaand then Crazy Rich Asians was
there, but too much was not there.
I was like what is going on? Maybe it's like because it was

(45:58):
like side characters? I don't know.
Some databases need to be populated.
Yeah. Joins.
Some joins need to happen. And then of course, Will Sharp,
who plays Felix, was Ethan in White Lotus season 2.
And then I also found out Jessica, played by Megan

(46:18):
Stalter, is but apparently a recurring role in hacks, which I
haven't seen, but yeah. A lot of the same actors in
Hacks are also in too much interesting apparently.
Well, other people. I recognized Andrew Scott, who
played Jim the director. He was the villain in Sherlock

(46:43):
the series. Moriarty.
Yeah, Moriarty. Yeah, Actually, when I, Oh my
gosh, my facial recognition for celebrities is so bad.
When I first saw him I was like,I want to say he's Mark Ruffalo,
but I also don't think he's MarkRuffalo.
I had the exact same thought. I was like, this is like almost

(47:07):
Mark Ruffalo. This is Park Muffle.
Yeah, really the same thought. And then I was like, but I do
recognize him for a reason that's unrelated to Mark
Ruffalo. And then Moriarty.
And then I looked it up. That's.
Exactly what I thought too. Oh my God.
OK, I wonder if we thought the same thing about this next

(47:28):
person. Rhea Pearlman, who plays
Jessica's grandmother, is Annette Castellano in The Mindy
Project. I think I've seen her.
OK, I definitely saw her in that, but I think there was
something else that I recognize her.
I think she's just one of those faces that I've seen in so many

(47:50):
things that she's just like generic old Jewish woman actress
now. Yeah, she is everywhere.
I'm sure she. I'm sure her IMDb list is too
much, but yeah, that's what I recognize her.
I was like Annette Castellano. And then another person I
recognized was Stephen Fry as Felix's dad.

(48:15):
Oh. Yeah, wait, what is he in?
He is also one of those guys that's just kind of everywhere,
but I recognize him as like Auk comedian type.
I think he's on top faster. I don't know how I know Stephen
Fry. Oh, you must know him as the

(48:39):
Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland.
Yours right? I must recognize him from Bones,
but then I double recognize his name because he voiced the Harry
Potter books. The second version of the Harry
Potter audiobooks, but also fuckJK Rowling.
There it is. OK Oh, and then these weren't

(49:04):
like actors or actresses but others influencer cameos.
So when Jessica puts her privateprofile on TikTok for everyone
to see, there is a reaction fromI think it's wait, let me
confirm this. Yes, the influencer name is past
that puss. Oh yeah, I told I recognized him

(49:26):
and Owen feel. Yes, Owen.
Feel, yeah. Yeah, I, I wrote both of them
down. I was like, oh, he's from
adults. Oh, that's right.
Oh, yeah, He was an adult. And then that reminds me, I
totally forgot to say Wendy Jones is played by Emily
Ratajkowski Emrata. Yeah.

(49:47):
Yeah, yeah. I actually don't know how I knew
Emily Ratajkowski. And so I looked her up and I was
like, oh, she's from the BlurredLines music video.
That's right, she is, and she's just a huge influencer.
I listen to her Call her Daddy episode.
That's kind of how I got introduced to her.
But she does talk about Blurred Lines in that episode and she

(50:11):
has a book where she talks aboutthe Blurred Lines music video.
Yeah, Oh my gosh. Speaking of Wendy Jones, the
character, I laughed so hard because we were thought to
believe that Wendy Jones was like this famous influencer
model type character. And then when she is talking to

(50:36):
Rita Ora about all of this stuff, Oh yeah, also Rita Ora,
isn't this right, Rita Ora when she's talking to Rita Ora?
And she was like, I mean, do youknow Wendy Jones?
And then Rita Ora's like, no, who the fuck is Wendy Jones?
And then Jessica was like, you must not part of the knitting.
Community in the knitting community.
I was like, that's. Wendy Jones that's like she is

(51:03):
she a public figure? No, she's literally just a
normal person who like knits clothes sometimes and has maybe
like 10s of thousands of. Followers which makes so much
more sense because I was like how would Zev pull like a mega
influencer? Yeah, what?

(51:24):
And why All of Wendy Jones's videos were just about her,
like, knitting things. And then Jessica was like, oh, I
just like, knit all my clothes. I'm like, so cool.
And it's like, oh, that makes sense.
She's a knitting influencer thatshe would knit all of her
clothes. Like, oh, it makes sense now.
That was a really good wind up. Oh OK, this is this was a point

(51:50):
that my sister made when we started.
So she and I watched episode 1 and then she refused to watch
the rest. But she let me know if you agree
with this. Her take was that Lena Dunham is
the white woman version of MindyKaling.
Where Mindy has a very specific way that she portrays her main

(52:15):
characters and it's always like sometimes high achieving or
sometimes creative brown girl who's boy crazy and obsessed
with sex and also only into white boys.
And then Lena Dunham's version of that is like fat white women
who are into conventionally attractive men.
I totally agree with that. I totally agree with that.

(52:38):
Yeah, it's like a weirdly specific character who they're
trying to make this person represent the average woman
experience. And it's like this is so
specific and I've seen this specific character only from you
in. All of your.
Shows. And I just want to say that's

(53:00):
not what my experience has been like.
Yeah, I 100% agree with that. Yes, I thought that was so
astute. Yes.
And then I would also say, well,preview for next week.
We're covering the Summer I Turnpretty well.
Ruchi isn't, but but yeah, I would also say Jenny Han, who's

(53:23):
the author of The Summer I Turn Pretty and To All the Boys I
Loved Before, also does this where it's always like half
Korean, half white girl who's really into a bunch of white
boys. Question for you.
So at what point I think there's, I don't know.
I don't know what it is to be ina creative field and to like do

(53:43):
this thing of, oh, write what you know because then you can
really provide this air of authenticity behind it.
But then also, how do you have the creative liberty to to
create characters who you may not know, who are not based on
yourself and still have them feel authentic?
I don't know. I think it's weird, especially

(54:04):
with cancel culture being so outthere, that it feels like a lot
of women writers especially are kind of forced into this niche
of like, I have to write characters that are solely based
on who I am because that's what I know and that's what I know I
can write about and give this like call to authority for.
But if I try to step outside that box, it's really difficult.

(54:27):
So I don't know. Yeah, No, that's such a good
point. It must be hard to come up with
a character where, like, you understand them to their core if
they're not that similar to you as a person.
Yeah, that's very real. I did have another fun fact.
So you know the the song where Jessica is talking to Felix and

(54:51):
she's like, you have to kiss me for the length of the song?
The length of that song is 10 minutes and 20 seconds.
That's so long they're going to need some mega lanage lip mask
after that shit. Yeah, and then there's

(55:13):
apparently also a legend behind it.
So the song is called Maggot Brain, and it's by the band
Funkadelic, and it was released in July 1971.
So this is from the Wikipedia. I did not do that much research
on this so take with a grain of salt.
According to legend, the openingtitle track was recorded in one

(55:36):
take when Clinton under the influence of LSD, and that's
George Clinton. The bandleader told the lead
guitarist, Eddie Hazel, to play as if he had just learned his
mother was dead. Clinton instructed him to
picture that day what he would feel, how he would make sense of
his life, and how he would take a measure of everything that was
inside him and let it out through his guitar.

(55:58):
And that's the song they were kissing to.
Wow, that's so weird. Such a fine line between sultry
and morose. Yes.
So that was like one example of how Jessica tried to hurt Zev
did something with Jessica wherehe introduced her to the song.

(56:18):
And then Jessica took that and did it with Felix.
And there was a parallel story that happened where Jessica
asked Zev, oh, like, what's yourresponse to would you still love
me if I were a worm? And he was like, that's a stupid
Internet trend, blah, blah, blah.
But then he does it with Wendy. And then there was another

(56:39):
parallel of like the spitting inthe mouth thing.
I thought that was so weird. By the way, Mama bird, baby
bird. I hate that.
No, I don't like it, but it was,it was everywhere and all of the
couples, they all did it. Oh, even.
All interesting. Did they show Zev and Wendy
doing it? Oh.
Actually, I don't know if Zev and Wendy did it, but Felix and

(57:02):
the girl that he was dumping Linnea or Linnea did it to him.
I can't remember. Anyway, there's that.
Then there was also Felix and the older woman.
Then it was also Felix and Jessica, and then it was also
Jessica and someone else, I think.
Something Zev did it. Oh, Jessica and Zev did it OK
yeah. So I was like with the spitting

(57:24):
in the mouth thing, I. Don't know, OK, I did not notice
Felix and old woman or Felix andLinnea do it.
But I did notice that Jessica did it with both Felix and Zev.
And I thought at one point Felixwas like do you want me to spit
in your mouth? Or maybe Zev said that and I was
like, oh, maybe it's a kink of hers so she just like likes when

(57:45):
it's done to her by any man. But then they showed up between
Felix and other people. That's confusing.
Maybe it's Lena Dunham's kink. Yeah, maybe because I think it's
like it felt really similar to how Quentin Tarantino always
has, like really aggressive, like feet shots.
And so like, that's also why there's.
Yeah, maybe it's Elena Dunham King, I'm not sure.

(58:07):
But there was a lot of, like, people spitting in each other's
mouths. And I was like, why?
Yeah, so I guess that brings us to parallels between Lena
Dunham. And yes, all right, so this show
had many parallels to Lena Dunham's real life.

(58:30):
First of all, there's a lot of speculation that Zev was based
on Jack Antonoff, who is Lena Dunham's ex-boyfriend.
He is now married to Margaret Qualey, and he's also like the
producer on all of Taylor Swift's albums.
That's kind of how he's so famous.
Also, he's the lead singer of The Bleachers.
So they were together for several years, and then

(58:53):
apparently when they broke up, he immediately started dating
this model Carlota Cole. And Jack had been telling people
that he and Lena had been like basically in the process of
breaking up for six months when like, they hadn't actually ended
it until right before he startedDay in Carlota.

(59:14):
And then that's also what Zev tells Wendy about his breakup
with Jessica, is that like they had been basically broke on and
off for six months, but not actually broke, but like, they
weren't. So there's one parallel.
After Lena and Jack broke up, she immediately moved to London,
similar to Jessica, and soon after she met Lewis Felber, who

(59:38):
Felix is loosely based on. Lewis Felber is also an indie
musician. He's half Peruvian, half
Caucasian, but he's also like a kind of grunge indie musician.
And fun fact, three of the songsthat Felix sings in the show are
actually Lewis's songs. So fun.

(01:00:00):
And then the last parallel that I found was that Lena, when she
was, I think it was when she waswith Jack, or maybe I don't know
when it was, but apparently she had a rescue dog.
I want to find the name of this rescue dog.
Asterd this. One has nothing to asterd.

(01:00:23):
OK, so yeah, so she had this rescue dog named Lambie that she
adopted from Brooklyn Animal Rescue Coalition.
Bark. In 2017 and she had to rehome
Lambie due to behavioral issues which led to a huge public
dispute with the shelter. And one guy from the shelter
went on Yahoo news and was like this dog was perfect before Lena

(01:00:47):
took her. And now this dog is super
traumatized so Lena must be abusing her dog.
And then Lena was like, I'm a very good dog owner.
Like, I take a lot of pride in being a very good pet parent.
Also. OK Bark employee who's casually
talking to Yahoo News, like, whyare you?

(01:01:07):
Yeah, you obviously have some sort of ulterior motive here.
That was funny. So.
Funny, I won't say. I think like, for better or for
worse, I do really think that Lena Dunham just has zero
filter. And like, sometimes it's very
refreshing and sometimes it's like, oh, you shouldn't have
said that. I think this is the one case

(01:01:30):
where I'm glad she said it so. Funny.
And then the other sad thing. OK, so then I just went on like
a rabbit hole reading about LenaDunham's public controversies,
of which there have been many, most of which end in her making
a very strong public apology, which is kind of endearing, I
think, but also, like, girl, like, learn some lessons here.

(01:01:55):
Why does this keep happening? But anyway, another thing that
happened which is very sad is that after the Lambie incident,
she adopted a dog and she adopted a cat and both died
within six months of her adopting them.
And so people were like, she abuses her pets, blah, blah,
blah. But then she was like guys I

(01:02:15):
only adopt old as fuck pets so that's why they keep dying.
Like stop coming at me about my pets.
OK, fair enough. But yeah, so those were those
are the parallels I found between Lena's life and
Jessica's life. But yeah, Bruce, if you know
anymore, definitely let us know.Wow, I did not know that.

(01:02:38):
Thanks for doing that research. I guess another parallel that I
just thought of like completely unrelated to Lena Dunham, but I
think the whole Wendy story about her, like thinking that
she's a model and some like hugeinfluencer and then realizing by
the end of the series that she'sjust another woman who's kind of
been taken advantage of by a manis really similar to the Sirens

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arc where Julianne Moore is thisethereal character that we think
something she's like drawing mento her and she has some kind of
crazy power. But then by the end she's just
like she's on the ferry like everyone else.
And so it was a really like coming to reality moment.
Totally. It's like the the power we place

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on women. We attribute so much to women,
but it's really just based on who they're with at the time.
We as society, let's do ratings.OK.
I guess I'll go first. Surprisingly, this was an 8 for
me in the end. Yeah, I, I really started really

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low, as you know, I think it definitely picked up in the two
episodes. Like after the first two
episodes, that's when it really started getting good.
So Yabbers, if you are not a huge fan of Lena Dunham and
you're huge fans of us and you want to watch too much, stick
through the 1st 2 episodes and then you will start seeing

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returns. I also think that this
conversation also really increased it for me.
I love hearing the parallels of Lena Dunham's personal life and
inspiration that she brought to the story.
I think that made it feel a lot more grounded.
Even though I may not love the characters themselves, I think

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it was really fun to watch something different from what I
normally watch. I will say so, yeah, an 8.
Nice wow OK I think this is maybe the first time you're
rating something higher than I'mrating it.
I think I would rate this sadly like a 6.5 out of 10 for me.
But I will say it made a huge comeback because we were

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starting at like A2 probably. And so it made a big comeback,
ended at a 6.5. I think just I don't love the
Super crude humor, just like casually talking about like
blowing people and come and blahblah blah like all the time
between characters. But yeah, overall, cute story,

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cute life lessons I think. Yeah, I think for me there were
also a lot of laugh out loud moments.
So like I also am not like a huge fan of crude humor, but I
think the humor was so crude that it was funny again.
And then in one instances, I think because Jessica presents
us such a sweet character, but then sometimes she just says

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things that are so out of pocketthat you can't help but laugh.
And so one thing that really made me laugh was when I feel
like she was taking a picture ofher and she was and she was a
landscape and then he like switched to portrait and then
she was like, OK, let me see. Have you ever taken a picture of
a woman before? The delivery of that line was so

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funny. And then it just immediately cut
scenes after that. I think there were a couple of
laugh out loud moments like thatthat kind of made a very Angie
moments. OK, for some reason I did not
like the delivery of her lines like that one.
I don't know, I I was trying to think this is inherently quite
funny, but something about her delivery just didn't do it for

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me. And I felt that way also about
after they've spent their first night together.
And then she's wearing her purple skirt suit, very formal
outfit. And he's like, oh, what do you
do? And she's like, I'm a stripper.
But she says it in like, such a flat way that I was like, this
could have been said so much funnier.
I don't know. Yeah, I think that is just her

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style of delivery is that she just says, like, really
sarcastic things with a really straight face.
And if you are not like, ready for that, you're like, oh, was
she serious? She must be joking, right?
And then you're like, OK, she's definitely joking.
Yeah. I think that was part of her
charm that I got used to by the end.
All right, Binge. I did not watch anything other

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than too much. Wow, no binge in progress, but I
will. Say that my my replacement binge
in progress was Trader Joe's snacks.
So yeah, purse, my house warmingparty was yesterday and Shalini
came yay. And a bunch of other people.
And I had a bunch of snacks mostly influenced by this New

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York Times article that was likethe best Trader Joe's snacks.
And I basically just got a lot of things from that list.
And we had a whole smorgasbord of Trader Joe's snacks that was
really delicious. It was an excellent spread.
Wait, can you list some of the things on that New York Times
list? OK, yeah, so some of the things

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were the Tom Yum Thai Snack Mix.So good.
So good, the chocolate ganache mini sheet cake.
And there was a bunch of different cheeses like the
unexpected cheddar cheese and the something something French,

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but it's a soft cheese. Don't ask me any more questions.
And then we also had garlic naanchips with the tzatziki sauce.
That's what those were. I was, I was trying to describe
these crackers to Unji. I was like, they were like kind
of like weirdly shaped and had some sort of seasoning on them.

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There's some chips, OK. Yeah, and then what else there?
Like herbs and spices? Popcorn.
Freeze. Dried watermelon.
What? What?
Oh I was gonna say ube cookies question is.
Ube powdered sugar cookies. Way too many chocolate chips,

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cookies, freeze dried watermelon.
Got it. OK, OK, cool.
Well, that's a great binge in progress.
Yeah, thanks. Binge eating in.
Progress on my right. That was me yesterday.
Binge eating in progress continuously.
I did not have dinner last nightbecause I was like I eat too

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many snacks. Yeah same.
My binge in progress is I'm re watching the summer I turn
pretty in preparation for season3 premiere dropping on
Wednesday. I am now in the middle of season
2, so very excited to chat aboutthat with guest host Aliana.

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So many bonus episodes this month.
Yeah, yay yay. Well, as always, thanks for
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