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The grungy, sleazy queen of sidesplitting insanity is back and this time she rules LA, the city of angels.<\/p>\n
The first look photos from HBO\u2019s new scripted comedy series\u00a0I LOVE LA, created by and starring Rachel Sennott, have been released. She\u2019s clearly here to remind TV of its place and make it her playground. It premieres\u00a0Sunday, Nov. 2 at 10:30 p.m. ET\/PT\u00a0on HBO and is available to stream on HBO Max. The eight-episode season premieres weekly to the Dec. 21 series finale, just in time for you to have a new holiday depression to blame things on instead of in-laws.<\/p>\n
At its center,\u00a0I LOVE LA\u00a0is a show about a cast of striving friends who fight their way through love and life in LA. Translation: a lot of cringeworthy hook-ups, disastrous auditions, too many oat milk lattes, and at least one crazy rooftop fight over a Silver Lake party house.<\/p>\n
Rachel Sennott is Maia, the delicate fantasist who can\u2019t \u201cmake it\u201d and stay vertical. And, naturally, comedic wit Jordan Firstman as Charlie, Josh Hutcherson (aka Peeta from The Hunger Games) as Dylan, Odessa A\u2019zion as Tallulah, and True Whitaker as Alani. That\u2019s enough zaniness to explode a group message, but HBO had more tricks up its sleeve. Guest stars include Leighton Meester, Moses Ingram, Elijah Wood, Quenlin Blackwell, and others. Imagining Elijah Wood crashing a drum circle in Echo Park and that\u2019s the level of enthusiasm.<\/p>\n
Sennott not only directs but, as creator and executive producer, as well, although she\u2019s assisted in the latter by Emma Barrie, Aida Rodgers, Max Silvestri, and Lorene Scafaria (Hustlers). The roster of directors is no less impressive, with Sennott herself, Scafaria, Bill Benz, and Kevin Bray at the helm. If there were ever promises that LA delusion could be filmable and side-splittingly hilarious, this is it.<\/p>\n
The first photos deliver what Sennott\u2019s fans are already waiting eagerly for: rumpled hairdo, acerbic humor, and unashamed adoration of Angeleno teenage desperation and poverty. Photos propose rooftop shots under smoggy sunset skies, rager party sequences out of control, and group photographs that yell toxic but party.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019ve been holding out for the ultimate follow-up to Bottoms and Shiva Baby with more palm trees, more traffic, and more unabashed hot people, then you\u2019re in luck.<\/p>\n