Hollywood Love Story

Each episode centres around a 'creative' individual or duo, trying to make it big in Hollywood. Scene kids, fashion designers, artists, dancers, rappers, strippers, sex workers etc. It seems like what they all have in common is that they're Instagram famous and they go to alot of parties where people pretend they're having a good time on social media. How meta indeed.

Hollywood Love story definitely isn't the story of Paris Hilton, heiress to a billion dollar franchise. I guess she is meant to be the real celebrity, the real fame and represents the success so many strive for when they move to LA. She knows everything they don't. I dont know if I understand (or maybe enjoy) her part in the narrative, as I tend to overlook her pithy hotelroom 2mins commentary at the beginning & end of the episode. Maybe the contrast is intentionally distasteful? What I personally liked about this series was (apart from aesthetics) is that it doesn't shy away from the lived experience. Gritty subjects like poverty, mental health issues, misogyny, sexual assault, drug addiction, to name a few are explored through the voices of likeable, talented, not so talented and annoying *cough Sergi cough* fresh characters to the LA scene. It seems like the underworld of LA chews young people up and spits them out - with or without their big dreams. I feel myself quickly looking up the young characters on IG to see how they're doing now.