In the romantic comedy “Too Much” on Netflix, there’s a moment when Jessica, a 30-something, avid fan of period dramas from America, arrives at an English countryside film set and excitedly exclaims: “Oh, this place is simply enchanting! I used to imagine myself here after watching shows on BritBox.
She’s not by herself. For many American film and TV creators, pastoral landscapes, historic spires, mysterious Highland castles, and iconic red buses have always been irresistible attractions. The fascination with these settings persists unabated today, as evidenced by the popularity of My Oxford Year, a Netflix movie that ranks at the top of their film chart. In this story, an American Rhodes Scholar named Anna studies Victorian poetry in Oxford before returning to her job at Goldman Sachs back home. The underlying message is that she’s enjoying the best aspects of two worlds.
Could it be your accent that makes you sound appealing and endearing? That’s what Too Much’s Jessica tells her boyfriend Felix from Shoreditch.
The show “The Too Much pair,” created by its American writer Lena Dunham, who drew inspiration from her real-life move to London and romance with a British man, enjoys playfully tackling familiar themes. For instance, there’s a predictable joke concerning Jessica’s aspiration to reside in an estate, which ultimately proves to be more Peckham than Pemberley – the former being a working-class area in London, while the latter is a fictional English countryside estate from Jane Austen’s novels.
After she repeats “ello guv’nors” one time too many, Felix informs her that there’s nothing more irritating than American humor than simply echoing back what we’ve said to us in an odd imitation of EastEnders dialogue. When she raves about the authentic Notting Hill, he counters by saying he grew up in the area and finds it to be more like The Shining rather than a Richard Curtis movie.
Regardless, none of these titles, including others such as Dempsey and Makepeace – a unique twist where a sophisticated British woman captivates a rough New Yorker – deviate significantly from the norm. In fact, American viewers are quite familiar with this kind of portrayal. It’s not depicting Ken Loach’s Britain, and these characters share more common ground due to their class than their geographical distance.
Americans see British people as snobbish yet intelligent, while British people view Americans as crude but amusing. If you keep that in mind, you should navigate just fine.” Henry James might have expressed it similarly.
The show Downton Abbey is incredibly outdated now, but it gained such a devoted fanbase in the US that children growing up in Brooklyn were reportedly influenced by Maggie Smith’s character’s accent. On the other hand, babies born in Britain are entering a world where Kardashian-influenced language, like “amazing, sweetie,” is commonplace.
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2025-08-12 03:22