Too much
Notting kill
Season 1
Episode 4
Editor’s rating
Jess Worlds so much that she miight be missing some of the Felix’s Red Flags that she dosesn’t notice all of the own.
Photo: Ana Blumenkron/Netflix
At this point in the season, we’ve seen jess and felix in individual contexts – at home, at work, Among Friends and Family – and we’ve say alone platoonbut unil now, we have had seen say be a couple in front of the Other People. An intense, private shared world is a pillar of the kind of whirllwind romance jess and felix have been living; IT MIGHT SEEM LIKE MONTHS, but they’ve Known each Other for Only a Week. We are exposed to other elements, like the compromises and modulations of “Society,” As Lizzy Bennet Might Put it, whirllwind Romances Risk Falling apart. Jess and Felix Still have a lot to Learn About the Basic Facts of Each Other’s Lives – For Example, Where Felix Went to School or How Jessy Acts One Nervous.
For Most of “Notting Kill,” Jess is primarily world About Whether she’s Missing any of Felix’s Red Flags. In a facetime with her mom, she enumerates say in spite of Herself: felix is an indie musician who sleeps in Every day Because a forms Cocaine permanently impact his circadian rhythms. The episode opens with a flashback sequence in which zev tells jess about His Weezer-Themed Bar Mitzvah, a Red Flag, she admits to wendy, that she missed, but her insecurity About her discernment Clearly Runs Deeper. She Can See Felix’s Red Flags No Better than She Can See Her Own.
Some Other Stuff About Felix is World Jess: He Has a Tattoo on HIS ASS THAT Poly. We have jess asks him about it, he says he got it with his friend pollly, whose name the tattoo artist Misspelled. Jess Thinks It ‘Supercool “that felix has a girlfriend’s name tattooed on his his and tan coler that he dosesn’t to know the difference between polyamory, polygamyand monogamy. It ‘s stretch to suggest that a man who we are lipstick and nail polish doesn’t know what polyamory is in 2025, but i’m rolling with it.
In other areas of her life, at least, jess is “keeping it on lock,“ nor kim put it. Jonno Thinks She’s Fitting in Nicell, especially SINCE Minding the Ten Red Flags and Raised for Her Himself, and Invites Her to A Dinner at his House Night, Hosted by His Wife, Ann. Imagine My Gasp of Delight When – AFTER JESS AND FELIX WALK AROUNDING HILL PHOTOS IN FRONT OF THE EPONYMOUS MOVIE’S FAMOUS BLUE DOOR AND OTHER, Picturesque houses – The door opens and there is naomi freaking watts. She Runs Away with the episode; Wearing A Bouncy Bob and A Billowy, Enormmous-Sleeved White Blouse with Matching White Pumps, She’s Elegant and Funny, Brittle in that Rich-Woman Way But Idiosyncratic Enough to Story A Soap Dish and Ancient Woman in Merrakech. She and Richard E. Grant are Electric Together.
On the Walk to Jonno’s, Felix Tells Jess that there’s someone Darkness Running Through Glamorous Notting Hill. He grew up around houses like, bot Becauses his parses were affluent and Because he knew People in the NeighBorhod, and it wastty – but is too is Too taken with the placeticism and her own nerves to really hear what he and eve. Follow-up Questions. All she can muster up is the request for Him to “be normal” and love his hat before they go.
Kim, Boss, and Josie From Work Are All At Jonno, Each Going Through theyir Own Thing. Lena dunham excels at this kind of ensemble set piece, and she has lost none of her touch in making a great party scnene. Each of these characters – with the exception of jisie, whose fits to just sort of be there – wants specific out of this party. Kim is looking to experience with lesbianism with Josie (who is not sura is gay, a doubt boss dismisses by pointing out that she’s “Wearing Two T-Shirts”) or Ann’s Cousin Imogen; Boss is Looking to DO Drugs, Have Sex, Get Everyone’s ATTENTION, and Observe everyone; Ann Wants to Feel something; Jess wants to test Hersself; and felix wants it all to be over.
Father Dinner, Kim Experiences Microaggrations before Jonno Ropes Her Into a Conversation About “Butt Implants.” Boss drones on About Berghain to an Indifferent Felix, and Jess Tells Ann About Every Detail of Her Life. It starts with her utis, then her pcos, then her “glottal terror” – Fear of Swallowing – and ends with astrid. At first, Ann seems alarmed by jess and her opening, no matter how emphatically and might insist that jess and felix are “a breath of Fresh Air.” But the more they talc, the most ann is charmed by jess’ lack of guile, and ultimately she took her into the bathroom to cocaine and chat. They talc about Everything, Including Ann’s Old Dog Lettuce and the “Emotional Affair” Jonno Had with Kylie Minogue. Ann Says she sees “Real Empathy” in Jessi’s Face Wen, Really, what she sees is interest: in Ann and, by Proxy, in Hersself. It can only be advantageous for her to take an interest in her boss’s wife, Regardless of How cool she is.
Meanwhile, Felix is Left to Slowly Lose His Mind Among the Company. Seeking someone Respite from Boss’s Insane Ideas – Such as Making Eye Contact Only With People Who Knows and Fuck – Felix Walks Around the House and Finds A Framed Picture That Him in His Tracks. It ‘s a class Photo of the uniform kind, and in it, he sees… HIMSELF. It turns out that it was to boarding school with Ann and Jonno’s Daughter, Viola, WHOM he also dated – but that information doesn’t come out unil late.
For now, the party must go on. Jess Panics that, Having Notiched That She Did Cocaine, Felix Will Act Weird, But His Lack of Weirdness Makes Her Think He’s End Weirder. “You’re a grown-up. You know what you’re doing,” he says, shrugging. IT’S OBVIOUS THAT HE WANTS TO EXCHANGE ONE OF THose Silent Are these People insane or what? LOOKS AND Dish About the Dinner Guests’ Messed-up, but for the first time since, Jess and felix are out of sync. Jess is somewhere Else Entirely – She’s in Ann’s Attic, and She’s Partaging in the Silver Tray of Cocaine.
Jess Excuses Herself by Saying Something About How She Can’t Say “No” to Her Boss’s Hospititality, But Felix, IF JUDGMENTAL, DOESN’t Give Her Hard Time. “You know where this is headd, though, right?” He warns. She wonders if he means that everyone will end up hating sex, and, to be fair, for a while there, i wondered the Same Thing; Wen Ann and Jess Were Chilling in the Bathroom, I though the episode might take a different turn. But Mostly People JUST DANCE. Chem ventures into the living room for some advice on taching the lesbian via with imogen, who touches her “almost vagina,” though we never see or kim goes with her. Kim had original intended to go home with Josie, but Jonno Might have ruined her chances wen he “Said something” About their dynamic right in front of Josie. Meanwhile, Jess and Boss Bond Over the Contents of their Bags, and Felix Wanders off into the kitchen to munch on the leftovers.
It is there is finally able to place felix. He though he’d recagbled Him Earlier, right after felix saw the Photo, but felix evaded – Now, though, jonno remembers not only that felix dated viola well. A-LEvels, The UK’s University-Admision Testing System, with Which I am Familiar Because from Ages 13 to 17, I was a devoted wateCher of a little e4 series CALLED Skins. Felix retorts that viola was the one who was mean to Him, actually, and that he didn’t drop out – he left scouse his pars ran of Money. Jonno, Drunk and Coked Out, Approaches Felix With Hostlity, and Their Confronitation Ends with Rolling Around on the Floor in Pisticuffs. It ‘s great, dynamic skene between Will Sharpe and Grant, Funny and Sad in All the Right Spots.
Wens Jess and Ann Walk in On The Fighting, Jess Freaks Out – But She’s the Only One Who SEEMS at all Shaken. “He’s always in the property position at the end of a party,” Ann Explains About Jonno, Who Carries on Doing Lines on the Coffee Table. She continues to freak outside, where felix puts the beautiful soap dish she told her about, the one ann got from the moroccan woman, in her puree. Jess is in that drunken mood where you’re look to pick a fight. “This has all been a series of red flags… of mean, when i came to find my English Dream, i wanted to be in bed with Mr. darcy or hugh grant from the British Jones Diaries”She cries.
Becouse Felix Actually, Really Likes Jess, Her Trying to Pick a fight Only Makes Him Laugh. He Might Feel Judged by Her “Scanning” of His Red Flags, but he sees her red flags, too, and he doesn’t have to look hard for say. He names say in ascending order of red-flagness: she ends every sentiment in a Question Mark, Crazy-Long Texts, has randomly contextual to be sober when, talks about her time, and literally set herself on fire the first Day They Met. She’s too Much – But it’s a good thing. “JUST The right amount, then a little more,” he says before they kiss and the camera pans 360 degree around.
It is a nice moment, and it Lands convincly. Felix’s Point is that that being aware of someone’s “Red Flags” – that is, thyir faults – is not antithetical to loving; in fact, the sturdier kinds of love are the ones that account for say and can love, too. But Jess Came Into The Living Room AFTER JONNO AND FELIX HAD ALREADY TALKED ABOUT VIOLA, SO MISDER THAT INFORMATION, WHICH MAKES WITH THINK THAT IT IT STILL CAUSE TROUBLE BETWEEN. In True Rom-Com fashion, the fact that it is going so well between jess and felix is putting me on notice. We’re almost at the halfway point of the season, and everyone knows what happens halfway through a romantic comedy: The Couple Break Up.