With ‘Too A lot,’ Lena Dunham Proves That She Stays Unmatched When It Involves Writing Dream Boyfriends

After all, one might argue that Felix’s cuteness (and Adam Sackler’s, for that matter) is primarily a feat of casting, not writing, however I stand able to rebuff that notion. Certain, Will Sharpe is all the time and without end cute, however who would have identified from watching him as a tentative and considerably henpecked boyfriend on The White Lotus that he had the vary to drag off an attractive, capital-T Troubled, and under no circumstances boring main man who principally has me scrawling his initials in my diary whereas I giggle and kick my ft within the air?

Granted, I could also be particularly susceptible to discovering Jessica and Felix’s relationship cute, on condition that I (like Jess) am a fats white American girl who can incessantly be present in a “flowing pioneer nightgown” with my tiny, bizarre canine on my lap whereas my good-looking, artistic, not-traditionally-masculine, half-Japanese main man tries to get me to cease taking a look at my cellphone. That mentioned, in lesser palms than Dunham’s, the romance on the middle of Too A lot might have appeared untenable, to say the least. If Sharpe weren’t so good as Felix and if the position weren’t so fastidiously crafted, I may need discovered myself yelling, “Depart this man! He’s newly-ish sober, and he has means too many scorching feminine mates, and I’m unsure he’s certain about you!” on the TV at any time when Jessica appeared onscreen.

Do I really wish to date a Felix or an Adam in my actual, almost-32-year-old life? God, no. I’ve put in additional than sufficient time begging musicians to whom I’d granted my “ultimate favor,” as they put it in Victorian England, to take any distant discover of me after the act. And if I by no means must google, “Can males have HPV?” on the C practice after a disappointing tryst someplace in Brooklyn with a flop “artist,” I’ll be without end grateful. Dunham has an actual reward, although, for making what’s irresistible about these sorts of fellows—the humorous guys, the weird-as-hell guys, the fellows who’re scorching exactly as a result of they’ve loads of apply being the bizarre child on the playground and actually don’t care in case you’re into them or not—rise to the floor, even whenever you’re presumably sufficiently old to know higher.

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