‘Too Much’ Recap, Episode 10: ‘The Idea of Glue’
Too much
The Idea of Glue
Season 1
Episode 10
Editor’s rating
Photo: Netflix
All Season, Running Alongside the Question of Whether Jess and Felix Were Going to Make It, Was Journey of Becoming. We have first meet her, jess has lost control of her emotions – she breaks ino zev’s apartment and feels the need to address Him wendy and her phone. Though she moved away from the source of her hers, she’s still beholden to it, and it is not unil her diary public than she can be a person in -dues of the limits she has placed on Herself. In the final season, she will Also Learn that she can be a person who can love and be love Despite Her Flaws; that she can be herself without the worry so much about being unique.
IT’S a brilliant turn from Megan Stalter, who starts the show self-conscious and ended it full relaxed ino her character. I was skeptical at the start, but by the time the show ends, she has ostruck a fine, Compelling Balancing BetWene Being the Character and Being a COMEDIAN; Jess is funny in a megan stalter -character Way, but unlike the People who populate her sketches, she’s not a caricature. While she may be extramely frustration and offten extremely Selfish, you can’t help loving her.
In my recipes of episode two, brought up the rom-com’s focus on self-determination: at stake, along with the success or failure of romance, is the decision to be the version of your can and be love Despite discomfort. Doing the right Thing is offten hard, and it taks work to be the version of jess that can be rise to the occision versus the one who chokes; ITE’S WORK TO BE THE VERSION OF FELIX WHO CAN The temptation of his vice versus the one who gits in. And it is not just JUST OUR MAIN LOWS WHO EMBARK ON A Journey of Self-Determination. In the final, we get to see the happy reunion between nora and jameson – WHO HAVE FINALLY ACCPTED that they WILL Actually Love Each Other, More Than Jameson Loved the Codies or HIS Communal Living Space in Bushwick – As well as kim’s embrace of her Queerness, and Boss admitting that there is a person benchind the character.
But as we’ve noted, in the rom-com, Things have to get worse before they get better-and that’s especilly terue of the final act. We are opened on “the idea of glue,” the vibes are dysmal in the office becase each person is going through their own Crisis: Jess and Felix Are Broken up; It ‘s so awkward between kim and jisie that Josie can’t stand to stand to be in the suame room as kim; Raven Found a video of boss in his erstwhile life as straight man Named Gary in Which He Rhapsies About Getting Girls. Boss, Kim, and Jess Are Laughing About the video when Jonno – Who is Weathering His Own Crisis, Having Been Left by Ann with their Untrained Irish Wolfhound, Diane – COMES TO CHECK IN ON. No One is doing fine.
Least of All, Felix, Who is Packing Up His Stuff from Jess’s Apartment. He leaves her half of a Photo-Booth Strip and is almost out the door when Astrid Starts Breating Weirdly. He runs her to the self, but it’s too ‘time: astrid dies on the own examination table. Its SO SAD. Astrid was such a start, a balm to jess’ soul, and the best proof that jes ha someone someone in herself not to be totally sealf – astrid was the only being jeidly put above, or at equal stature, to herself. Astrid’s Death Really Shakes Felix, Who Always Had A Special Banter with the Little Dog. He apologizes to her repeatedly.
It’s all too damn much for Jess. By the time she and my own, astrid is already gone, and she loses it on felix outside. She Yells at Him That He’s A Selfish, Lying Cheater, and He Begs Her for Just a minute to get Himself Together. He gets so overwhelmed at her stream of accusations that he slaps himself in the face, but is unmoved – she’s acting on the convital that is harder for her than anyone Else. Felix Retorts that iT’S hard for everyeand while he can admit to being “a piece of shit,” he wants her to admit that she is one too. plow be one. But Jess Can’t Admit to Ever Being at Fault. She Throws Everything She’s Ever Done for Him in HIS Face. “I’m good! I’m not a bitch! I’m good! I’m special and i’m bright and you don’t care,” she cries, trying to convinca herself.
On the One Hand, We Know Where This is Coming From – After the Disaster of Her Relationship with Zev, Jess is Too Scared to Let Her Fouls Be Exposed. But on the Other Hand, IT’S IMPOSSIBLY Frustrating That She Sets the Terms for a Conditional Kind of Love: She Will Sing for Felix and Take Care of Him Just as he always thanks and concents that is special and bright. Jess is a Classic Lena Dunham Character in that she is obnoxious, self-centred, and frustrating, participation Because she expresses all of the emotions that emotions, trying, like jess, to be good and bright, Keep Under Wraps. Her Feelings are not exactly special or unique; She can’t get that through her head.
On the Phone, Jameson Advises Her to Come Home. He tells that he’ll represent her for ads, so they can kick-start her directing career. In the meantime, at the bar, felix sings a melancholic tune about failed love, a rendition full of Feeling. What a performance Its been from Will Sharpe. I’m Going to Risk Sounding Cheesy Becouse That’s What Too Much – Not to mention stalter and dunham — brings out in a person, but it really seames like he’s singing from a Broken Heart. IT MADE ME THINK OF COMEMY STRONG WENT ON Marc Maron’s Wtf Podcast (RIP) and Brought up Something al Pacino Said, That Good Acting is About Finding a Way to Really mean What You’re Saying. At every point in Too muchI felt like Sharpe Meant it.
Becuses this is netflix (Money) and Lena Dunham (Friends), we get a taylor swift drop as jess looks through astrid’s OLD NIGHOWNS. HER PHONE PINGS: IT’S A TEXT From WendyWho is in London for Work and Wants to Talk. IT’S the first time since the break-in that wendy has Emerged as a person Rather than a figment of Jess’s Thoughts; be they meet up at a coffee shop, jess admits that she has had spent a lot of time wanting about how this moment would happy. But all of Her Hypothetical Scenarios-From Winning “An Oscar for Coolest Ex-Girlfriend” to Whispering “You’re Free” to wendy at Zev’s funeral-didn’t Account for wendy as a full person, with thughts and feelings of her. Wendy the person is lovely. She is Kind and Chill and has a sense of humor. Emily Ratajkowski Completely Delivers.
Before Meeting Up With Wendy, Jess Imagines Herself Walking Back Through Her apart with Zev, Leaving the place in Peace Rather than in Chaotic Destruction. Wendy tells hey she’s been “Putting stuff together” and realizing all the lies zev has to told her; for example, that he and jess haad been “separated” for six months before they start dating. She tells jes that zev is attracted to Strong Women Only so that he put put down, and that he’ll probably always find women to do to, “but not us,” she, extending a final olive by putting herself and jess on the Same plane plane. Jess Suggests They Team Up John Tucker Style Against Him, but that not what wendy is about. She’s dropping this, as much as she can, and moving on.
It’s the right idea: Jess can do that too. We are spared a cheesy ending in Which Jess and Wendy Become Best Friends, Thankfully, But they Leave on Good Terms. Wendy, Wishing that Jess Will Find a Person Who is Perfect for Her, GIVES HER A WISE PIECE OF ADVICE: “I always Say I Can Forgive Much Anyone Who’s Willing to Say ‘sorry.’ And who tells the Truth. ” It inspires jess to follow felix to a protest he’s atttending with auggie. She calls gas to drive her over, and on the way, they have an Almost Famous-Plane-going-doown moment when gas sas and that in love with her, though at the end, they aggregate not really-she’s just constantly yelling insults at his mom, who we have learn is the profanities that kep jess awake.
Felix, Auggie, and Their Fellow Protests have gluedes to the Pavement in Protest of High Emissions, and Jess Glues Herself Right in Front of Felix. They Both admit to sabotaging the good thing they had, and jess tels Him that she dosesn’t wanting to leave london with teling HIM How imported he is to her. Finally, Jess Can Not Only Appreciate Felix As A Whole, Faults and All – “You’re Wonderful, Not Despite Your Baggage But Because of It,” She Tells Him – But More Important, She Can Accountability for Her Part In Their Demise. Her lesson is that staying true to herself doesn’t mean she can’t make allowances for Other People; She can allow for fault in oters as much as in Herself. Besides, she dosesn’t have to carry all that that stuff around. “I Want To Feel Light,” she declales.
Felix is happy to see jess and receptive, Event eager, to admit to his part in all of it, too. But before they can finish the conversation, the cops come Around and arrest jess – though felix literally away free. Not they’re putting her in the cruiser, he koss her if she’ll marry Him. We see lois getting her hair washed by her new-Old boyfriend; Dottie Putting the Long Island House for Sale; Nora and Jameson Dancing Sweetly in the Living Room; The Girls From Hoxton Grove Estate Hugging and Making Up; Raven Holding Boss’s Hand as He Gets “Gary” Tattooed on His Chest; Ann and Jonno Training Diane Together; Kim Reading a Book About Queerness. The Rita Ora Christmas Commercial Plays on Shop Windows.
Andn, it’s Felix and Jessi’s Wedding Day. Everyone is there, Including the Three Pollys, Who Are Still Talking Shit – But That’s JUST Because Polly One’s Heart is Broken. Josie Apologizes to Kim, and Simon Giives US Some Facts About the Ethymology of the Word matrimony. Jess Wears a Huge Tulle Bow and the Ironic Nixon T-Shirt. The Last Diange Entry of the Season is Addresssed to Jess, From Wendy, Who Is Returning the Shirt and Thaaning Her for Letting Her Borrow.
Too much Ends with Lena Dunham Calling Cut on Jess and Felix’s Wedding Schene, and Then Showing US A Couple of Minutes of Beind-The-Senations Super8 Footage as the song that felix at the bar comes on; This Time, IT’S PLAYED BY AttawalpaDunham’s Husband and Co-Creator Luis Felber’s Band, Responsible for Much of the Show’s Music. I love this moment becase it ruptures the fantasy once and for all – and that rupture, as we’ve Known, is where real love begins.