In the <i>Too Much</i> Finale, Jessica and Felix’s Relationship Takes a Surprising Turn

Spoilers below.

The eventful Too Much finale picks up after the tumult of the previous episode, where Jessica’s (Megan Stalter) private Instagrams addressed directly to her ex-boyfriend’s current girlfriend are made public, becoming a viral news story, and she and Felix (Will Sharpe) break up after he cheats on her.

Jessica and her co-workers Kim (Janicza Bravo) and Josie (Daisy Bevan) sit listlessly around the office as the episode opens. The tension is quickly broken when Boss (Leo Reich) comes in with the news that his most recent love interest uncovered a video he made while he was a high school student and had yet to come out. With unbleached hair and a backwards baseball cap, Boss is unrecognizable in the clip, where he raps about his pursuit of women.

Despite the thrill of learning that Boss’s given name is actually Gary, Jessica is still miserable after her breakup with Felix, who seems quite sad himself. He’s back at Jessica’s apartment, packing up his things and looking wistfully at photos, when he notices that her dog Astrid is breathing heavily. He bundles her up and races down the street to take her to the animal hospital. He frantically insists that she be seen immediately and, in a heartbreaking scene, he learns that Astrid’s heart has stopped. Jessica arrives at the hospital hysterical at her loss.

They have a fight outside the hospital, where Jessica tells Felix how much his cheating has disappointed her, and he cries and asks her to stop. “Look, I’m sorry that your dog died, okay. I’m sorry you’ve been through shit, like, I get that it’s hard for you, but like it’s hard for fucking everyone, okay,” he tells her. “I’m trying, but I’m a piece of shit. That’s what I am. I’ve told you that, I’ve shown you that.” When he calls her a bitch, she reminds him of all the things she’s done for him (she sings for him, she’s taken care of him). “I’m not a bitch, I’m good. I’m special and I’m bright and you don’t care,” she responds, in tears.

As Jessica walks home, she passes a couple emerging from their wedding and then FaceTimes her brother-in-law Jameson (Andrew Rannells). He urges her to come back to New York, something that we can see her considering. Jameson’s in an Uber on his way to her sister Nora’s (Lena Dunham) home. When he arrives, she’s standing outside, and he tells her that he regrets leaving their marriage to find more freedom. He doesn’t want freedom. He asks if she will take him back. “What if I yell at you all the time and I’m a horrible shrew and then one day I get so mad that I put a screwdriver in your chest or something?” she asks him. “I think that sounds nice,” he responds. She hugs him.

Back in England, Felix is performing a forlorn song at the bar where he first met Jessica in episode 1, while she’s at home crying as she puts away Astrid’s tiny outfits. She reads a text on her phone and gasps. Wendy Jones (Emily Ratajkowski), her ex-boyfriend’s current girlfriend and the subject of her angry Instagrams, is in London and wants to meet her. In a fantasy sequence set to Taylor Swift’s “Bigger Than the Whole Sky,” Jessica returns to the Brooklyn apartment she shared with her ex, Zev (Michael Zegen), who we see reading the rather apt book The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., and leaves it, and him, behind. Suddenly she’s back in her London apartment and sees that Felix has taken half of the photobooth strip of the two of them. (We also see Jessica’s bedside reading: When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold). She places the remaining half of the strip next to a Polaroid of her with her late father (Kit Harrington).

While waiting for Wendy at a café, Jessica nervously fixes her lipstick. Wendy arrives and explains to Jessica that she’s hoping she can help her figure a few things out. When she and Zev started dating, he told her that he and Jessica had been broke up for six months after an amicable split. Jessica’s La Roche-Posay was still in the apartment, but Zev assured Wendy that it was his. Zev is kind of a dick, they agree. “It’s like he chooses strong women just to tear us down,” Wendy says. “I’ve been holding on to this shit for so long and I don’t really want to anymore,” Jessica says. “I feel like I realize now that my joy is not going to come from his destruction or yours.” When something doesn’t work out, Wendy says, it allows you the opportunity to find something that’s right. She hopes that Jessica can find the perfect man—perfect for her, at least.

Upon hearing that, Jessica opens Instagram and sees that Felix is on his way to a climate change demonstration. Her neighbor Gaz (Dean-Charles Chapman) picks her up at the café. As they head towards a specific spot on a highway, Gaz speeding recklessly, he admits to Jessica that he’s in love with her. She’s old enough to be his mother, she tells him. “You don’t love me. You just live with angry British people who throw things and yell. I see your sweetness and your softness,” she says.

When they arrive at the designated spot, they see that Felix and his friends have stopped traffic as part of a climate protest. Jessica joins them and glues her hands to the road beside Felix. Their relationship scared her, she tells him. She thinks maybe she somewhat incited a breakup, though he definitely shouldn’t have slept with another woman. He messed things up too, he admits. “We’re the sabotage twins,” he says. “I think that you’re this alien, but you also feel like home, you know? It doesn’t make sense, but it also makes so much sense,” Jessica tells him. Before she leaves, she wants him to know how much he means to her.

The police come and begin making arrests. As they’re handcuffing Jessica, Felix asks, “Do you want to get married? It’s a genuine question.” Jessica still hasn’t answered when he darts way from the officer and runs down the highway.

A montage set to Richard and Linda Thompson’s “I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight” includes Jessica’s mother (Rita Wilson) bathing with her new boyfriend, her grandmother (Rhea Perlman) putting a for sale sign on Long Island lawn, and Nora slow dancing with Jameson as their son sits by a lit menorah.

In the following scene, Jessica’s family is elaborately dressed and her grandmother is explaining to Jessica’s London friends that her coat is real monkey fur. We see that they are gathered outside of a government building with Felix’s family, his friends, Gaz, Boss, Kim, and Josie. Josie apologizes to Kim for avoiding her after their night together and says that she’s still interested.

As the wedding march plays, Jessica and Felix burst out of the building. He’s in a suit and she’s wearing a tulle skirt with her mother’s cropped Nixon shirt (Wendy sent it back to her) and a huge hairbow. We see a quick glimpse of her and Felix as a Regency era bride and groom as Wendy offers her best wishes in a voice over. The couple kisses as their guests cheer.

“How long do you want to stay married?” Felix asks. He’s just kidding, we think. But this marriage, coming right on the tails of infidelity, the loss of a dog, and a very brutal unresolved argument, feels rash, even by rom-com standards. Our fingers are crossed, however, for a second season that offers a glimpse of Jessica and Felix’s married life.