I Love LA

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.

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 LOVE everyone involved with this show and as someone who just moved away from LA after 25 years I was looking forward to watching this and getting melancholy about LA... but all it did was play into the worst stereotypes about LA... vocal fry and all. I'm hoping that it might be ironic and that the future eps will reveal Mia et all to become real people (which there are actually a lot of in LA) I know it's unfairly being compared to the LA "Girls" but it is not even close. If this is the REAL LA I guess I got out just in time!

I hope there is more to LA than these vapid characters in unoriginal tropes. I was able to able to enjoy Girls to some degree but all the people in the show are just too insufferable, I could probably get past it if the comedy was solid but the only enjoyable thing seems to Los Angeles itself. I don't see this getting season two.