On the surface, Rachel Sennott's I Love LA is about a tight-knit, ambitious friend group learning to navigate life and love in LA. That's how HBO describes the series, at least. From this, one might assume that I Love LA is the newest addition to a roster of shows that includes the likes of Friends , Girls and Broad City — beloved coming-of-age series that center friendships where the focus is, at its core, the characters' relationships to others and self.

But in I Love LA , Los Angeles is the character in question. Unlike its peers, the new HBO series is less interested in the dynamics of the friend group itself and more concerned with the far-reaching tentacles of a city that has the power to make you as quickly as it can eat you alive — all while documenting your rise and

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