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Arielle Port started as a TV producer, developing content for Netflix (Firefly Lane, Brazen) and Hallmark (The Santa Stakeout, A Christmas Treasure) before transitioning into entertainment journalism. Her love of story went from interest to lifelong passion while at The University of Pennsylvania, where she fell in with a student-run web series, Classless TV, and it was a gateway drug. Arielle Port has been a Writer for Screen Rant since August 2024. She lives in Los Angeles with her boyfriend and more importantly, her cat, Boseman.
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Entourage was a massive hit, and over a decade after its finale, HBO has finally found its replacement show: I Love LA. Audiences were drawn to Entourage because it offered a glossy, insider fantasy of Hollywood and the chaotic machinery behind fame. Entourage’s heightened-but-recognizable version of how the business works made it feel simultaneously escapist and oddly authentic.
Rachel Sennott’s comedy tackles the same city, though from a decidedly Gen Z perspective, with the characters in I Love LA building careers as influencers instead of actors. While the connections to Entourage are clear to anyone who watches the show, many people are unfortunately drawing a more superficial connection between I Love LA and Girls.
I Love LA Embraces The Messiness Of The Entertainment Industry Just Like Entourage
HBO’s I Love LA feels like the first true successor to Entourage in 14 years because the series embraces the messiness of the personalities who power the entertainment industry, capturing the egos, insecurities, power plays, and delusions that quietly keep Hollywood humming. Neither show offers a traditionally likable ensemble, yet that’s part of the point.
There’s a central tension around whether viewers are supposed to admire or despise the characters, creating a tonal tightrope that has always kept audiences hooked. Entourage hasn't aged well in all respects. It reflected the excess and optimism of the 2000s.
I Love LA, meanwhile, updates the formula for a world ruled by social media metrics and brand deals. What they share is a willingness to show viewers an unfiltered version of an industry that’s usually opaque. Both shows offer front-row access to the perks, pressures, and absurdities of fame.
Comparing I Love LA To Girls Is Reductionist
On a surface level, I Love LA is drawing plenty of comparisons to Girls, and it’s easy to see why: both are half-hour HBO shows centered on young, complicated women who aren’t designed to be traditionally “likable.” But the comparison starts to fall apart beyond their shared format.
Girls was fundamentally a hangout sitcom, albeit one with a bite, following a group of friends muddling through their twenties. I Love LA, by contrast, has a workplace engine driving its story, with Maia navigating the chaos of managing Tellulah’s burgeoning influencer career.
Labeling the two shows as similar just because they’re female-led comedies is a bit lazy, especially when Entourage, despite being an hour-long “drama,” shares more of the same narrative DNA. All three series are dramedies at heart, but I Love LA mirrors Entourage in its fascination with the machinery of fame and the dysfunctional personalities powering it.
There’s also a key creative distinction. I Love LA is creator-driven - Rachel Sennott both created the series and stars in it - but it’s not the semi-autobiographical project that Girls was for Lena Dunham. Dunham’s character was famously a heightened version of herself, while Sennott’s voice comes through in sharply observed comedy rather than self-portraiture.
The result is a show that feels like a stylish dissection of the contemporary industry. Hopefully, I Love LA continues to gain traction to give it the longevity of Entourage - it’s a promising sign that HBO already ordered a second season of I Love LA after just three episodes of its freshman season.
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