I Love LA is an HBO comedy created by, written by, and starring Rachel Sennott, marking the breakout comedian's arrival as a television auteur. Sharp, self-referential, and steeped in the anxieties of a generation, the series skewers the striving, status-obsessed culture of young creatives trying to make it in Los Angeles.
Sennott plays Maia, a floundering talent agent whose fortunes shift when she reconnects with her estranged former best friend Tallulah (Odessa A'zion), a New York influencer who moves west. Around them orbits a codependent friend group that includes Josh Hutcherson as Maia's boyfriend Dylan, Jordan Firstman as a celebrity stylist, and True Whitaker, as the show mines comedy and cringe from ambition, friendship, and the performative hustle of LA life.
Premiering on HBO and HBO Max in November 2025, I Love LA earned strong reviews for its wit and generational specificity and was quickly renewed for a second season. With Sennott's distinctive voice at its center, it captures the comedy and quiet desperation of twenty-somethings chasing relevance. It streams on HBO Max.
Arguably the best medical drama in television history, House thrives on genius writing and equally brilliant acting. Set in a teaching hospital at Princeton University, the show builds its plots around complicated, complex, elusive, credulity-straining diseases and a team of diagnosticians willing to move heaven and earth to find their causes and treatments. Long-time House fans eventually demystify the show’s dramatic formula, which devotes the first third to diagnosis and discovery, the middle third to trial and which seem to lead to a cure, and then the climactic ending which undoes all the drama of the first two thirds, curing the disease by revealing The Truth. Hugh Laurie plays Dr. Gregory House to perfection, sustaining the tension and contradiction between House’s arrogance and his irresistible compulsion to save people from their illnesses and often from themselves. One Los Angeles television writer sums-up, “A vicodin-popping, wise-cracking, gimp-guy who walks with his cane on the wrong side while he demystifies illnesses so bizarre they almost defy imagining—what’s not to like?”