“Too Much” is not Lena Dunham’s immediate follow-up to “Girls,” the seminal HBO comedy that remains its creator’s calling card. In the eight years since that series went off the air, Dunham co-created another HBO show (“Camping,” a limited series that was poorly received), directed the pilot of another (“Industry,” which takes a “Girls”-like interest in 20somethings making terrible decisions) and made two features (“Sharp Stick,” a pandemic indie, and “Catherine Called Birdy,” a medieval coming-of-age story). But the Netflix half-hour is, by a significant margin, Dunham’s most personal and involved undertaking since she first became a household name among the creative class. Given her status as a perennial
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