Rachel Sennott is to take another stroll around the Silver Lake reservoir after HBO renewed comedy series I Love LA for a second season.
It comes as the hipster comedy series became a hit for the WBD network, on pace to become the second top freshman comedy on HBO Max. It is currently averaging 2M viewers in live-plus-three numbers across HBO and streaming.
It is one of two comedy series renewals with HBO also bringing back Tim Robinson’s The Chair Company for a second season.
I Love LA follows an ambitious friend group navigating life and love in LA. It stars Sennott as Maia, a young, aspiring talent manager, who is trying to make it in the cutthroat world of Los Angeles when her college friend Tallulah, a rising influencer played by Odessa A’zion, comes to town.
Maia is searching for a promotion at work from her boss Alyssa, played by Leighton Meester, while also dealing with her own relationship quirks with her boyfriend Dylan, played by Josh Hutcherson. Jordan Firstman plays Charlie, Maia’s friend and a WeHo celebrity stylist, while True Whitaker plays her friend Alani Marcus, the daughter of a famous actor who “works” at her father’s production company.
Moses Ingram, Lauren Holt, Elijah Wood, Quenlin Blackwell, Josh Brener, Tim Baltz, Froy Gutierrez, and Colin Woodell guest star. Ayo Edebiri also pops up as a British pop star in a memorable scene in Eagle Rock’s Capri Club.
Creator Sennott executive produces and showruns with Emma Barrie. Aida Rodgers, Max Silvestri, and Lorene Scafaria also exec produce, while Sennott, Lorene Scafaria, Bill Benz, and Kevin Bray directed.
Sennott told Deadline that she pitched the show as “Entourage for internet girls”.
“I think part of it was going through my Saturn Return, and I feel like this thing sort of happens — my early 20s were really chaotic. My mid-20s, I was like, ‘Okay, I’m locking in. I know my life. I’m done.’ And then at the end of my 20s, I feel like that kind of early version of myself came [out] and things got chaotic again, which was scary, but good,” she added.
