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Rachel Sennott Envisioned New Series ‘I Love LA’ as “‘Entourage’ for Internet It Girls”
Rachel Sennott Envisioned New Series ‘I Love LA’ as “‘Entourage’ for Internet It Girls”-March 2024
Mar 10, 2026 3:04 AM

There have been endless Hollywood projects made about the city of Los Angeles, but new HBO comedy series I Love LA spotlights two very important things: the Silver Lake Reservoir and Erewhon.

I love to walk the res and yap with my girls, so to get that into the pilot was awesome, creator and star Rachel Sennott explained at the shows premiere on Tuesday. And Erewhon is featured, which no one has shot in Erewhon before, brag. Were the first to shoot in Erewhon.

These L.A. staples are just two of the many landmarks featured in the series, which follows a tight-knit friend group reuniting in the city after years apart. Odessa Azion,Jordan Firstman, True Whitaker, Josh Hutcherson and Leighton Meester co-star. It started from me moving to L.A. during COVID, feeling very isolated, going through my Saturn return; I think in your early 20s, you and your friend group are all together-together, and then people start going off on side quests and youre like, Where are you guys going?' Sennott told The Hollywood Reporter. I was like, I need everyone to be here with me, please dont leave. And I think those feelings of vulnerability, loneliness, gripping onto my friends that was the inspo, that was the jumping off place.

She pointed to Entourage as a big reference when writing the show, saying, we were talking about this show as Entourage for internet it girls. Hutcherson added that the Adrian Grenier-led series captured a side of L.A. in a very authentic way, and I think theres some echoes of that in our world as well.

Rachel Sennott Envisioned New Series ‘I Love LA’ as “‘Entourage’ for Internet It Girls”1

Leighton Meester, True Whitaker, Jordan Firstman, Rachel Sennott, Odessa Azion and Josh Hutcherson Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for HBO Hutcherson who also celebrated the reservoirs depiction because I run around it all the time, so to see that in a beautifully shot way it was like you see, concrete and barbed wire can be beautiful! said he fell in love with the script immediately and was a quick yes to play Sennotts boyfriend in the show. Ive been a fan of Rachels for so long and she just brought it all on this, he said. Its rare that I read something and Im constantly laughing while reading, and this definitely did that.

Meester, fresh off of her appearance in Nobody Wants This, plays Sennotts boss, joking, The character breakdown was a woman in her 40s who chews loudly and coughs while talking on the phone, and I thought, thats my dream role.

I Love LA premieres Sunday on HBO.

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