Rachel Sennott's HBO 'I Love LA' Premieres

I Love LA is an HBO comedy created, directed, co-showrun and starring Rachel Sennott that premiered in early November and frames Los Angeles as the central character while satirizing the city's effect on 20-somethings and chronically online culture. The series follows Maia (Sennott), a junior talent-management assistant who reconnects with former best friend–turned–influencer Tallulah (Odessa A'zion) as fame, social media and ambition complicate friendships and careers. A supporting ensemble includes Jordan Firstman (Charlie), True Whitaker (Alani) and Josh Hutcherson (Dylan), and the show features cameos from internet personalities. Sennott executive-produces and co-showruns with Emma Barrie after HBO picked up the pilot during a turbulent period in her life, and she has said the series marks a turn toward interrogating her own flaws as well as skewering others. Across reviews and interviews the series is being read as a Gen Z and zillennial coming-of-age tale that balances pointed satire of LA transplants, influencer culture and economic precarity with unexpected tenderness.