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Excessive

By: Dan Robert
Narrated by: Chloe Fineman, Joshua Jackson, Meredith Hagner, Kim Cattrall, Dan Robert, Loni Love, Debbie Allen, Emily Skeggs, Amy Sedaris, full cast
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Excessive is a dark romantic comedy created by Emmy Award-winning writer Dan Robert, starring Chloe Fineman (Saturday Night Live, Father of the Bride, Babylon), Joshua Jackson (Dr. Death, The Affair, Dawson’s Creek), and an all-star cast including Amy Sedaris, Loni Love, Kim Cattrall, Meredith Hagner, Debbie Allen, Heidi Gardner, and Guillermo Díaz.

Paula O’Brien (Chloe Fineman) is a 30-something haunted-house stage manager who has always been told she’s a little “too much”. Over the top. Overwhelming. Just—too much. But what do you do with your “too much” when no one wants it?

After a humiliating turn at the wedding of her childhood best friend (Meredith Hagner), Paula flees Connecticut, leaving her overbearing mother (Kim Cattrall) behind, and follows a series of signs to the city of excess, Las Vegas, in search of her true twin flame.

Enter Victor (Joshua Jackson): a criminally charming bachelor who causes Paula to fall hard. But after Victor vanishes without a trace, he discovers the true meaning of “too much” when she sends thousands of unrequited texts—each message a new stop on this twisted journey through the dark side of romance and magic in Vegas.

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About the Creator - Dan Robert

About the Creator

Dan Robert is an Emmy Award-winning writer/director/actor who grew up in western Massachusetts. He started his career as a child actor in local professional theater, for which therapy has been very helpful. After graduating from Emerson College, he began working at Shondaland, where he served as the executive assistant to Debbie Allen on Grey’s Anatomy before becoming the creative assistant to Shonda Rhimes. With his high school best friend and writing partner, Lisha Brooks, he wrote on both seasons of The Baby-Sitter’s Club for Netflix, which won the 2022 Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Live Action Preschool or Children’s Program. With Lisha, he co-created and stars in the web series Beards. They have various forthcoming projects in development in both television and film. As an actor, Dan has appeared on Search Party and Made for Love. This show is for anyone who has ever been told they were too much.
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Chloe Fineman
Joshua Jackson
Additional Credits

About the Performer and Executive Producer

Chloe Fineman is in her fourth season as a cast member on Saturday Night Live entertaining viewers with her standout impressions of Drew Barrymore, Britney Spears, Nicole Kidman and Timothée Chalamet to name a few.
Glamour raved “Chloe Fineman Can Impersonate Anyone” and the Washington Post called Fineman “The Comedian We Need Right Now.”
Fineman can be seen in Warner Brothers' Father of the Bride remake for HBO as well as Babylon for Paramount and White Noise from Noah Baumbach for Netflix. Chloe is currently shooting Francis Ford Coppola's film Megalopolis alongside Adam Driver and other notable cast.
Chloe was recently honored in Hollywood Reporter’s Next Gen List and Variety’s New York Impact Report. Her Instagram @Chloeiscrazy has been a fan favorite for many years. Her TV credits include Big Mouth (Netflix), Seach Party (HBOmax), Dickinson (Apple TV), Awkwafina is Nora From Queens (Comedy Central) and High Fidelity (HULU) and the upcoming Twisted Metal (Peacock).
Fineman graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with Honors and is from Berkeley, California.

About the Performer

Joshua Jackson will next star in a drama series reimagining of Fatal Attraction, opposite Lizzy Caplan, premiering on Paramount+ on April 30th. Additionally, he will soon begin production on the Ava DuVernay/Array Filmworks Untitled Romantic Drama starring opposite Lauren Ridloff for STARZ. Jackson will also serve as executive producer on this series.
Jackson most recently starred in Peacock’s Dr. Death, based on the popular Wondery podcast of the same name. The series chronicles the true story of neurosurgeon Dr. Christopher Duntsch, who was building a flourishing practice until his patients died or were permanently maimed following their complex but routine surgeries. His powerful performance exploring the twisted mind of Dr. Duntsch and the failures of a system designed to protect the defenseless earned Jackson a 2022 Critics Choice Award nomination for Best Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television.
Jackson’s TV credits in recent years include the Hulu limited series Little Fires Everywhere starring opposite Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington, the award-winning Netflix mini-series When They See Us for Ava DuVernay, Showtime’s The Affair, the National Geographic Channel’s Emmy Award-winning documentary series Years of Living Dangerously, and FOX’s Fringe created by J.J. Abrams.
In 2018, Jackson made his Broadway debut in Children of a Lesser God starring alongside Lauren Ridloff, telling the story of an unconventional teacher at a school for the deaf and the remarkable woman he meets there. The show received rave reviews with The New York Times calling Jackson a revelation in his role. Jackson’s additional stage credits include a successful run on London’s West End starring in A Life in the Theatre alongside Patrick Stewart. The acclaimed comedy was written by the Pulitzer Prize- and Olivier Award-winning, and Oscar-nominated David Mamet. He also starred in the off-Broadway play Smart People at New York’s Second Stage Theatre, about four Harvard intellectuals finding themselves entangled in a complex web of social politics.
Well known as Dawson’s Creek’s fast-talking, self-deprecating Pacey Witter, Jackson has been working in front of the camera for over 20 years. His feature film debut was in Michael Bortman’s Crooked Hearts, which he followed up with The Mighty Ducks trilogy, Digger, and Andre the Seal. Jackson starred in Universal Pictures’ The Skulls, Rose Troche’s acclaimed drama The Safety of Objects, the HBO Films version of Moises Kaufman’s groundbreaking play The Laramie Project, and in Regent Films’ Aurora Borealis, opposite Donald Sutherland.
Jackson’s additional feature film credits include Sky, Cursed, Gossip, Bryan Singer’s Apt Pupil, and Cruel Intentions. He also starred opposite Rebecca Hall, Bruce Willis, and Catherine Zeta Jones in Lay the Favorite for director Stephen Frears and Inescapable opposite Marisa Tomei. He was seen as part of the ensemble cast of the critically acclaimed film Bobby for director Emilio Estevez and starred in the psychological thriller Shutter for 20th Century Fox/New Regency which was shot on location in Tokyo. Additionally, he had noted cameos in Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s 11, Scream 2, Urban Legend, and I Love Your Work. In 2010, he received the Best Actor Genie Award for his starring role in the Canadian Independent feature film One Week.

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It was insane. A really fun listen. It had soooo much going on and yes sometimes it was hard to follow but it was worth it. It ended at 4:44:44 lol

I need a part two

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Well, I listen to audiobooks while I work data entry and with this one I barely got anything done because I kept having to run it back thinking that surely I missed something because I felt completely lost, like all the time! I mean it was so insane that I actually wondered if it was just me! Upon reading the reviews of the masses it had me even more confused because everyone came on to sing it's praises. Then adding insult to this already festering wound its abrupt ending left me a little bit angry that I had listened to this for so so so long and I'm not even going to get the satisfaction of a proper resolute ending!

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I liked it but I didn’t like it. I liked it more than I didn’t

Let me leave you guessing!!

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There is a lot to like, but it moves fast. I was never sure if I had missed something critical to understanding what was happening in the narrative. My advice is to just enjoy the ride - it will come together more or less, but then venture out again on another thread. When you think of it in terms of the main character’s mindset it makes some sense, but some of the other characters are hard to keep straight. They all do an excellent job with the performances. My one question was the ending - it felt like there were answers, but not resolution.

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I’m not entirely sure what I listened to. The voice acting was phenomenal and the one-off character interactions were mostly funny. The story as a whole, however, is a confusing headache. It took so many twists and turns that by the end I felt mostly exhaustion. The ending cemented the general, “What…?” feelings I had throughout.

My Head Hurts

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I was able to follow the story, once I accepted the flighty protagonist’s stream of consciousness, and the voice actors were great, but there were odd and unnecessary unexplained twists and where is the rest of it? Too many open questions and character shifts. If this is a Part I, it should have come with Part 2. Without a Part 2, I cannot recommend.

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The voice acting was great and felt gripping, but by the end seemed like a whole lot of build-up to nothing. Disappointed by the ending. I either wish there was more, or that I hadn't even wasted my time listening to it at all.

Wish I had looked at the reviews first

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Soooo... is there a sequel to this? Because that ending was too abrupt and cliffhanger-ish to be an actual ending.

I found the main character to be completely crazy. She was enjoyable to follow and really nice, but the whole time I kept thinking "total nut job". And her decisions the farther along into the story I got seriously confirmed that. It was a quirky read and the voice actors did an amazing job, but I wish the author had finished the story rather than breaking off after such a short time.

Really enjoyable but the ending?

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This was the most chaotic story I've ever listened to on audible, and if I say I didn't love every second of it, I'd be lying. The twists and turns of this were absolutely ridiculous. And if there isn't a second one, I'll probably riot.

what did I just listen to...

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I was excited by the premise of this book but it just couldn’t hold my attention. It was so all over the place and the characters were horrible. I kept having to rewind because I’d get distracted. I only finished this because I hate not finishing a book. The performance was the only decent part about this book.

Mindless “listen”

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