I Love LA (2025)

The critic finds the series young, dumb, and full of fun as a showcase for Rachel Sennott that captures youthful ambition and friendship. It notes the pilot is overstuffed but the show relaxes into its voice with precise yet unhinged comedy that is absurdly funny yet emotionally true.

The review calls it a hot-mess comedy that kicks off with frenemies, hangovers, and promise. It highlights Rachel Sennott’s deadpan humor and the show’s fitting love letter to Los Angeles, noting it is a delicious kind of mess with strong potential.

The series starts fitfully but develops into an intriguing portrait of late-20s anxiety, with strong performance from Sennott capturing the shift from youthful potential to awareness of limitations.

The critic finds the show a fine piece of sociology about the influencer era but not particularly funny or character-driven, evoking despair in its portrayal of empty ambition and nihilism in LA's social media scene.

The critic praises the series as a very funny HBO comedy alternating between savage satire of influencer culture and a soft-hearted friendship sitcom. It follows an aspiring PR manager balancing real relationships against succeeding in a soulless industry and concludes it will win viewers over.

The review finds the HBO series a bumpy ride that takes time to find its footing but ultimately delivers hooks and charm. It singles out the artful, emotionally intuitive direction by Lorene Scafaria for praise.

The critic calls the series funny, absurd, and outrageous while delivering a grounded portrayal of a screen-obsessed generation navigating ambition and social media. She singles out Odessa A'zion's scrappy, magnetic performance as the influencer Tallulah for making the character dynamic and vulnerable.