The comparisons between Rachel Sennott’s new HBO series I Love LA and Lena Dunham’s Girls feel so inevitable as to be boring— it’s you and me on a coin the industry loves to spend , etc.—but I have to say, as a spoiled millennial Angeleno currently living closer than I would like to the Scientology Center, watching I Love LA in my 30s and seeing people, places, and things I recognize firsthand holds the same thrill as when I would watch Girls in my 20s and recognize the various third-wave coffee shops, shitty bars, and even shittier men that reflected my Brooklyn life at the time.

So, just how real-to-life is Sennott’s vision of Los Angeles? Below, find a roundup of all of I Love LA ’s name-checks, ranging from the outright to the subtle:

The Silver Lake Reservoir

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