Straight Up Lena Dunham's Too Much, the Salt Path controversy and a Beckham prenup
Lena Dunham remains one of the most controversial people in pop culture, but that hasn’t stopped a glittering roster of A Listers from appearing in her fun new London-based Netflix romcom Too Much. We assess some of her biggest online scandals, while looking at how autobiographical the show really is. Plus, an explainer of the Salt Path: the latest furore to rock the publishing industry. Are readers right to feel betrayed by writer Raynor Winn’s alleged lies and does publishing have a fact-checking problem? We’ve also got yet another juicy little Beckham family feud update for you, hunnies, plus a debate on whether prenups are feminist and two fab book recs!
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Recs/reviews
- My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
- The Tenant by Freida McFadden
- Too Much, Netflix
- Too Much: what film and TV get wrong about London, BBC
- Did the Lena Dunham and Jack Antonoff Relationship Lore Inspire Too Much?, Marie Claire
- Will Sharpe went too hard on himself in the Too Much finale, Vulture
- Lena Dunham’s change of pace, New Yorker
- Too Much Is Full of Lena Dunham Lore, Vulture
- TALA founder: ‘We weren’t going to make payroll — so I sold my car’, Financial Times
- The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were spun from lies, deceit and desperation, The Observer
- The Salt Path revelations should be no surprise to anyone in publishing, The Observer
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