{"id":12905,"date":"2026-03-27T22:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/?p=12905"},"modified":"2026-03-27T22:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:12:17","slug":"i-love-la-the-rise-of-a-generation-that-will-change-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/2026\/03\/i-love-la-the-rise-of-a-generation-that-will-change-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Love LA\u201d: The Rise of a Generation that Will Change the World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

HBO released the untitled Rachel Sennott project in fall of 2024. Late 2025 brought \u201cI Love LA,\u201d <\/em>and not soon after followed my personal obsession with it. <\/em>The series follows Maia (Rachel Sennot), a quirky talent agent trying to make it in, you guessed it, Los Angeles, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The show begins with Maia\u2019s ex-best friend, Talulah (Odessa A’zion), a type-b NYC influencer surprising Maia for her birthday. The surprise spirals, revealing their complicated yet deep and loving relationship (that most girls will experience at one point or another). At the end of episode one, Talulah moves to LA, becoming Maia\u2019s first client, complicating but temporarily strengthening their now best-friendship further. The series expands outward from there, following the chaos of their lives and relationships along with their group of friends. Alani Marcus (True Whitaker) is a lovable, ditsy, undeniably herself nepo baby. Charlie Cohen (Jordan Firstman) is a slightly narcissistic but hilarious fashion stylist. Dylan (Josh Hutcherson), Maia\u2019s boyfriend, is a down to earth teacher who seems to be just along for the ride (though occasionally left behind). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The characters and actors that portray them carry a loud confidence, quiet authenticity, and slightly unattainable beauty and glamor, but in a casual and charismatic sense rather than an out of touch, in your face kind of way. The sets are glossy and sun soaked. The outfits are designer yet wearable. The show itself shares these same qualities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About halfway through episode one, \u201cBlock Her,\u201d we follow Talulah and Alani as they adventure through LA with their Bronco, bikinis and marijuana. They sing out the sunroof, dance on the beach, shop vintage and browse Erewhon (the trending, overpriced, LA grocery store). The scene takes inspiration from Randy Newmon\u2019s music video<\/a> from the 80s, even using the same song,  \u201cI Love LA.,\u201d in the background. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both the music video and the show feel attractive, fresh, authentic and entertainingly chaotic. Yet small aspects of it that differ from the 80s version, the trip to Erewhon– the sunny angels on the windowsill– reflect a side of the show that\u2019s both self-depriative and in a strange way, meaningful. The montage represents everything this show embodies. While it definitely feeds off of its attractiveness, wealth, luxury, and privilege, it holds depth in the way that it uses this lavishness to depict the flaws and chaos that come with growing into adulthood today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rachel Sennott, one of my personal favorite celebrities, is able to depict gen-z in this way because she herself is gen-z. Sennot brings a desperately needed yet lacking narrative to television and pop culture; a narrative where gen-z gets to define themselves, tell the world \u201cwere flawed, were chaotic, but were here to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who better than Sennott to take the role of the next voice of our generation? If you are somehow unfamiliar with the rising star, I\u2019m honored to introduce her to you. Contrary to popular belief, she came from humble beginnings. Born in Connecticut, she went to college at NYU and graduated in the class of 2017. As for her work in the industry, she is known for her starring in the witty, comedy\/horror \u201cShiva Baby,\u201d the A24 horror, “Bodies Bodies Bodies,\u201d and \u201cBottoms\u201d a raunchy, chaotic, LGBTQ+ comedy. Like most growing up with the internet at the touch of a finger, her online footprint is present. In a 2019 Instagram video poking fun at LA she shouted, \u201cI\u2019m addicted to drugs. We all are. If you don\u2019t have an eating disorder, get one, bitch!\u201d There is a level of irony in how seven years later the very city she liked to criticize through comedy is the one that not only is the setting, but takes center stage in her career turning show, \u201cI Love LA.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sennot\u2019s move to LA wasn\u2019t all smooth sailing. She told Variety<\/a> that after moving \u201c[she] felt really isolated and alone.\u201d But after a few years of building community and finding routine, she came to call LA her home. She never really stopped seeing its flaws and never forgot her struggles. \u201cI Love LA\u201d is both a love letter to the city she learned to call home and a criticism of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like many in our generation, Sennot recognizes what it\u2019s like to struggle through finding her identity– both as an artist and individual– when the world feels like it’s crumbling around her, and the future feels uncertain. We can all learn something from this. She took her struggles and triumphs and translated them into art; a reflection of our historically misunderstood generation, not sugar coated yet not fully criticizing either. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Fieldston, above all we value authenticity: in our history, in our story telling, in our identities, in our art. Sennot reminds us that art and authenticity doesn\u2019t have to be boring and doesn\u2019t have to be depressing. We are part of a generation whether we like it or not, that is complicated and in many ways isolated. A generation that often receives criticism, warranted and unwarranted, from everyone older than us. Yet one thing that brings us together, that sets us apart positively, is our drive to establish ourselves in vulnerable ways, our need to make our mark on the world. I am not arguing that \u201cI Love LA\u201d <\/em>is a foolproof representation of the new generation; all I argue is that it is a bold, self-aware, and refreshingly honest attempt to capture who we are: messy, ironic, ambitious, vulnerable. For those reasons, it\u2019s worth a watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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