The Name of Rachel Sennott’s New HBO Series Is Kinda Boring
Rachel Sennott’s previously unnamed comedy series, dubbed “Untitled Rachel Sennott Project,” has been highly anticipated for months now. After breaking out in Shiva Baby and Bottoms, the show shared first looks back in November, to much excitement online. Many people even believed that Untitled Rachel Sennott Project was the real name for the show after a while.
But now, we have an official release date and an official title for the show. It will be called I Love LA and it will premier on HBO Max on November 2nd, appearing on the network with Tim Robinson’s The Chair Company, a Larry David sketch series and a series starring Steve Carell.
The logline of the show is “An ambitious friend group navigates life and love in LA.” So I Love LA isn’t an inappropriate name, it just doesn’t roll off the tongue. It also isn’t as fun and meta as Untitled Rachel Sennott Project. Instead, it feels like a show I’d skip over when scrolling through the “New This Month” section on HBO Max.
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In fairness, I don’t have any better suggestions — doing a single word title like Girls or Friends sets the expectation pretty high. Some millennial title like Group Hang or Group Chat or Friend Group would also be bad. Sex and the City was already taken, as was Living Single, Happy Endings and Friends From College. Man, there really are a lot of shows about friend groups in cities. Another Show About Friends? That’s not a good title. After the mysterious promise of something being untitled for so long, there really was just no hope of living up to expectations.
Anyways, the show will be executive produced by Sennott, and she will also direct a few episodes. Sennott will play Maia, while Jordan Firstman will star as Charlie, Josh Hutcherson as Dylan, Odessa A’zion as Tallulah, and True Whitaker as Alani.
Who knows if the show will live up to the unlimited promise that the non-title Untitled Rachel Sennott Project gave us or be closer to the real title of I Love LA. One thing is for certain: Sennott and I were both making jokes on Twitter in 2017, and she definitely leveraged it better than I did.