Tanya Sweeney: Women like me might be considered Too Much – but we shouldn't have to make ourselves smaller
Jessica is thought largely to be based on Dunham, and is prone to saying things like 'I'm American, I love feelings' and being generally OK with her enthusiastic, ebullient self. She dresses exactly how she wants, even if, to others, that aesthetic is closer to 'got dressed in the dark'. She shrieks like a wronged cat during arguments, unable to trammel her boundless energy. 'You're too much,' her new boyfriend Felix (Will Sharpe) tells her, smiling. It takes her, and indeed us, a minute to realise that he doesn't mean this as a bad thing.
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