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!!!

Ok, so it's been only 2 episodes so far, but it does look like an updated version of Girls. Which, really, is not a bad thing! It's an HBO show, so there are somewhat explicit scenes here and there, though pretty mild by modern standards. The characters are zany and quirky, the influencer culture and LA it-girls are interesting to watch. I think it should get grittier and have more LA inside jokes, much more sarcasm/irony, and a cameo or two, but I though it was a pretty good start. Waiting for new episodes, it could be a fun little series to watch! HBO - don't cancel it!

Update after watching 3 more episode - episode 3 was awful, bad writing, annoying bitchy characters. But the next two went back to form. So yeah, this series is all over the place, at times juvenile and annoyingly self-absorbed, but when it's good - it's really good.

It's unfortunate this got so much hate it's pretty good although love the trailer song wish that was part of the series. Great cast nice to see Odessa Azion not in horror, she was awesome in new Hellraizer and Until Dawn film. This deserves more than 5.7 rating but I guess it's fair maybe overtime it'll change, to me it's great!

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 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.