I Love LA - Comments & Tips

did not finish. admittedly got all the way up to the finale (we are in a josh hutcherson renaissance and he looks very good in this show) but i just couldn’t take it anymore. almost all of the characters are insufferable, there’s no one to root for. i really did want to like it!! it had one funny episode! it has a gorgeous and talented cast, but it just fell so flat.

This was a comedy? Go figure... :thumbsdown_tone2: :thumbsdown_tone2:

Has no one noticed that it's a gen z version of The Entourage? Except it's an influencer instead of an actor...currently on episode 3 and that is stuck in my head. Both are slightly plotless and show a very superficial LA lifestyle. Don't love it, kind of dislike it but not yet in the hate category.

HBO has been stuck in a prestige loop, making essentially the same show since 2012; muted tone, awkward realism, and characters who aren’t self-aware enough to lean into either humor or emotion. Everything has to be a dramedy and socially observant rather than genuinely funny or emotionally indulgent and as a result, their shows exist in an in-between space, not silly enough to be truly comical, yet too intellectual to be soupy. That style was once great, I loved it in Girls, but it’s been repeated to exhaustion in Mrs. Fletcher, Crashing, Insecure, and many others. And now this…