I Love LA

The first episode hit me like a breath of fresh air. Kinda raunchy, great dialog and a quirky set of friends make the premise not only palpable but believable.

If you're a fan of Girls (2012) or Florida Girls (2019), this show fills that role. Relatable stories told by women within the demographic. Should be a fun ride!!!

While trying to skewer influencer culture and the shallowness of life that exists mostly online, show misses the mark by replicating the fantasy of LA. The vocal fry brigade in this show live in a bizarre sideshow yet still idealized version of LA life that thinks $20 beers at a hipster bar and and an Erewon shopping basket are tickets to culture. Maybe some show will actually depict the graffiti on every public surface (how about a shot of graffiti tower in DTLA?), sidewalks reeking of urine, and the insane housing costs especially since the fires. Not to mention the hopelessness of the forever war on homelessness and mental illness as a downstream effect of a city still reeling from the pandemic and the attendant policy choices. That show would be titled "MacArthur Park, 2025."

I found this show very hard to enjoy. As someone who had Broad City and Insecure as a reference point, it was so easy to see how Rachel knocked off both shows. Lacks sincerity, authenticity, and characters that aren't insufferable.

Maybe I'm too old, but the Gen Z meets valley girl meets influencer accent is too much. I couldn't find someone I wanted to support.

I hope it gets better but as of right now, it's trying to be Broad City and Insecure but doesn't have the writing, acting, or strong enough story line to compete. It reeks of a privileged girl who somehow convinced HBO to pick this up.

I'm in the same age bracket, same internet era, similar sociologic dynamics myself, so I write this review as the target audience.

I wish the humour was better, it falls flat and forced most of the scenes and the vibe i'm getting is constipated but agitated on the acting all around. Just screaming and shouting and I get that they're trying to exaggerate the tone-deafness of LA but there's actually viable ways to make it funny without trying too hard. It feels like a bunch of stereotypes and exaggerations stacked on top of each other, like a never ending list of clichees to tick. The set design of each space we are introduced to is quite nice, the clothes department also did a good job,all the actors are handsome too, the way it was filmed at the beginning gave me headaches with the camera moving all the time, scenes cutting off at inconvenient moments, which is too bad because I genuinely saw potential here. The narrative thread the story accelerates is a bit here and there, launching us in this wanna be universe with all these characters, dropping them in the same episode, everybody being super obnoxious etc. I do wish we saw more of LA scenery, places, restaurants, more details in general on everyone and everything.

I don't want to compare this to Girls of Lena Dunham but it's the closest thing I could think of, that Rachel Senott wanted to emulate I guess, which unfortunately falls kinda short. Maybe the next episodes will be better? Will I still be watching? Honestly, I don't know, it's one of those series you watch when you're super bored and have nothing else on tv that day.

Rachel do better, you have all these people, resources, HBO, God knows what other resources all at your feet, you can do much better, otherwise all the Hollywood stereotypes are true and no one there, despite having every ingredient and much more to create something amazing, can't actually do it.

I'm getting really over shows like this being made and after one episode getting 1 starred by people who aren't even the target audience. That leads to a negative perception, which turns potential viewers off. I was excited for this as I think Rachel Sennott is pretty funny, but was pushed away by all the negativity. I finally decided to give it a chance and am confused by all the hate. It seemed to obviously poke fun at LA culture and social media fame, and I didn't expect so many people to miss the point.

"The characters aren't likable" "They're all so vapid" "There's no hope for this generation"

They aren't meant to be a moral anchor for current 20 something's, it's just for fun. If the characters annoy you, then it's working. If you went into this show knowing you were going to hate it, then why even watch? Giving a 1 star to everything that isn't your cup of tea just skews the numbers.