I'm in the same age bracket, same internet era, similar sociologic dynamics myself, so I write this review as the target audience.
I wish the humour was better, it falls flat and forced most of the scenes and the vibe i'm getting is constipated but agitated on the acting all around. Just screaming and shouting and I get that they're trying to exaggerate the tone-deafness of LA but there's actually viable ways to make it funny without trying too hard. It feels like a bunch of stereotypes and exaggerations stacked on top of each other, like a never ending list of clichees to tick. The set design of each space we are introduced to is quite nice, the clothes department also did a good job,all the actors are handsome too, the way it was filmed at the beginning gave me headaches with the camera moving all the time, scenes cutting off at inconvenient moments, which is too bad because I genuinely saw potential here. The narrative thread the story accelerates is a bit here and there, launching us in this wanna be universe with all these characters, dropping them in the same episode, everybody being super obnoxious etc. I do wish we saw more of LA scenery, places, restaurants, more details in general on everyone and everything.
I don't want to compare this to Girls of Lena Dunham but it's the closest thing I could think of, that Rachel Senott wanted to emulate I guess, which unfortunately falls kinda short. Maybe the next episodes will be better? Will I still be watching? Honestly, I don't know, it's one of those series you watch when you're super bored and have nothing else on tv that day.
Rachel do better, you have all these people, resources, HBO, God knows what other resources all at your feet, you can do much better, otherwise all the Hollywood stereotypes are true and no one there, despite having every ingredient and much more to create something amazing, can't actually do it.
