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Every generation gets its hangout shows, from Cheers<\/em> to Friends<\/em> to How I Met Your Mother<\/em>. But there was a notable void for Gen Z \u2014 until the arrival last month of I Love LA<\/em>. Created, written by, and co-starring Rachel Sennott, the HBO series follows four late-twentysomethings making their way in the titular city today, working (sort of), partying, fucking up, and just plain fucking. The two with real jobs work as a talent agent and a celebrity stylist. The other two are an influencer whose life has imploded and a professional nepo baby. People speak in astrology and use the word \u201ccunt\u201d as an adjective. They vape and do a lot of coke and ketamine and a lot of squealing. And if that all sounds kind of unpleasant, perhaps that\u2019s partly the point. I Love LA<\/em> may not be for everyone \u2014 what art is? \u2014 but it\u2019s so lived-in and so sharp, it feels like an adrenaline jab to the heart of a post-Peak TV landscape that\u2019s been littered with shows lacking a point of view.<\/p>\n Sennott, 30, came up in the NYU comedy scene alongside Ayo Edebiri<\/a>, broke out as the star of 2020\u2019s Shiva Baby<\/em>, and brought her outr\u00e9 humor as a co-writer and star of the horny teen-sex comedy Bottoms<\/em><\/a>. But I Love LA<\/em> leaps out as a statement from, yes, a voice of a generation. Like Girls<\/em>, this is a show that knows its characters are ridiculous and naive and self-absorbed \u2014 and it both celebrates and gently mocks them for it. The perspective is one born of empathy. As Sennott told Deadline<\/a>, \u201dI wanted us to not take ourselves too seriously.\u201d But, she added, citing Covid, the job market, our polarized political climate, and the prison of social media, the world young adults have been thrust into has not exactly been welcoming: \u201cIt\u2019s just hard. We\u2019re not able to accomplish the same things our parents were at this age. It feels like nothing you do is ever enough.\u201d<\/p>\n More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Not surprisingly, as with Girls<\/em>, online discourse around I Love LA<\/em> has been polarized and often snarky. (Sennott has said that she modeled the show more on Entourage<\/em>, actually, though that fact likely won\u2019t deter snarksters.) Some call the characters vapid (see: Entourage<\/em>). Some call them annoying (see: Girls<\/em> or Entourage<\/em>). A predictable segment of grinches rail about how the show does not reflect their<\/em> L.A. (see: city of 4 million people and roughly 500 square miles). But maybe it doesn\u2019t have to be all that deep. At its core I Love LA<\/em> is a chance to spend time with a cast of characters \u2014 and actors \u2014 curated according to Sennott\u2019s taste. Which is to say, a group of rising stars who individually and collectively capture something ineffable about right now.<\/p>\n Odessa A\u2019zion (daughter of actor and Better Things<\/em> creator Pamela Adlon) is electric as the influencer Tallulah, a narcissistic chaos agent who nevertheless shows flashes of tenderness and heart. Jordan Firstman, who first broke out doing high-concept impressions on Instagram during the pandemic, brings the perfect balance of vanity and insecurity to stylist Charlie. True Whitaker, daughter of Forest, embraces the meta irony of playing the intellectually vacant Alani, given a no-show job with a fancy title at her Oscar-winning dad\u2019s production company. Gen Z everyguy Josh Hutcherson is the perfect straight man amid it all as Dylan, sweet schoolteacher boyfriend to Sennott\u2019s neurotic aspiring talent rep Maia.\u00a0<\/p>\n As any great coach would, Sennott assembled a team of talented players and put them in the best position to succeed. They feel like actual friends who actually live in the city they\u2019re depicting, who\u2019ve actually experienced the ups and downs of a late-twenties life where you\u2019re not where you want to be and not even sure why you wanted to be there in the first place. The specifics of I Love LA<\/em> might not be yours. But the story belongs to all of us.<\/p>\n Best of Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for RollingStone’s Newsletter<\/a>. 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