Move over manchildren, there are some women who would like to take your immature crown.
The early 2000s saw a run of successful movie and TV comedies about men who didn't want to grow up. Think Judd Apatow flicks with Steve Carell and Seth Rogen, or sitcoms starring Charlie Sheen. The humor (if one was amused by it) was in their dopey antics, their refusal to conform to the standards of adulthood ... plus, lots of fart jokes.
But with HBO's new comedy "I Love LA" (Sundays, 10:30 ET/PT, ★½ out of four), we are now entering the era of the woman child. Instead of getting ill-advised chest waxing, they're catfighting in TikTok videos, whining on the phone to their parents and stealing expensive purses. Created and starring Rachel Sennott, of internet "It Girl" fame and films like "Saturday Night" and "Shiva Baby," the series is a masturbatory (literally and figuratively) prestige TV fantasy of the chronically online.
And while there is value in peeking in at a world of influencers, Hollywood hedonism and the cares of Generation Z, "LA" does not add any critical lens or takeaways. Sennott and her costars speak with an irritatingly fake affect, are shallower than a puddle in the desert and prize selfishness, indolence and artifice. The dull stories the show crafts around them add no insight or substance.
