Lena Dunham breaks down a harrowing flashback episode of Netflix's "Too Much," which explains why Jessica (Megan Stalter) is the way she is.

When Lena Dunham reached precocious fame with her series Girls (she wrote and sold the show to HBO aged just 23), she was primed to become the next big thing for a generation of millennials. And yet nothing she’s created or starred in since the show ended in 2017 — including the 2022 comedies Catherine Called Birdy and Sharp Stick and a small role in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time .

Lena Dunham—the actress, writer, and director best known for creating HBO’s Girls —returns to television with Too Much, a new Netflix rom-com series that premiered Thursday. This time, she’s back in full force as writer,