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In this week\u2019s episode of <\/b>The Envelope podcast<\/b><\/a>, Rachel Sennott discusses finding the voice of \u201cI Love L.A.\u201d \u2014 and finding her footing as series creator \u2014 during a tumultuous time in her life. <\/b><\/p>\n

Kelvin Washington: <\/b>Welcome to The Envelope, Kelvin Washington alongside you know who, Yvonne Villarreal, Mark Olsen. Always great to have you two here and spend some time with you. We talked about it earlier, we had Emmy season \u2014 a few weeks ago we discussed it. But now Emmy nominations are on the way. Yvonne, I\u2019ll start with you, just maybe someone, a show, a couple of things you\u2019re looking at saying, \u201cHey, I would love to see this or that person nominated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yvonne Villarreal: <\/b>I wanna give some shout-outs to the women right now. I was really frustrated when Rhea Seehorn didn\u2019t get love until the final season of \u201cBetter Call Saul,\u201d and I\u2019m hoping \u2014 and I do have a lot of hope \u2014 that she will be recognized for \u201cPluribus.\u201d [I] was a really big fan of \u201cThe Comeback\u201d this season. I would like to [see] Lisa Kudrow get in there. Show-wise, I would like to see \u201cThe Testaments\u201d in there. I don\u2019t know how much of a dark horse that one is, but that\u2019s my pick for show.<\/p>\n

Washington: <\/b>You\u2019ve been riding \u201cThe Testaments.\u201d What about you, Mark? <\/p>\n

Olsen: <\/b>I\u2019m sort of leapfrogging over nominations, and I\u2019m just thinking about what would be exciting on the show. And last year, I remember Stephen Colbert won for talk show kind of right after his show had been canceled, and that seemed like a very exciting moment. And so this year, with Jimmy Kimmel, where this is the first Emmy cycle since he had his suspension last year, and really has been in the news, I just think if he were to be nominated and then to win, that just would be such an exciting moment at the show. What\u2019s he gonna say? I just would really love to see that.<\/p>\n

Washington: <\/b>Yeah, he seems like he would have some things to say, right? Because just kind of the nature of who he is. We\u2019ll have to wait and see. And just for me, a couple of people. Just a fan of this particular person, Janelle James is hilarious to me. She plays in \u201cAbbott Elementary.\u201d She plays that role great. And then this one is no real surprise, probably 50-plus-year career, but Martin Short. Every time I see him, he\u2019s amazing, steals the scene. So those are folks that just jump off on the radar for me. <\/p>\n

All right, I\u2019ll get to you, Mark. You had a chance to sit down with Rachel Sennott of \u201cI Love L.A.,\u201d creator and star of it. Tell me a little bit more about that.<\/p>\n

Olsen: <\/b>She\u2019s been kind of a real, like, bright light on the comedy scene for the last few years in films like \u201cShiva Baby,\u201d \u201cBodies Bodies Bodies\u201d and \u201cBottoms,\u201d and, you know, she also was like a writer as well as a performer. And so with \u201cI Love L.A.,\u201d which is a look at sort of like the young creative class in Los Angeles, she is the star of the show, she created the show, she writes on the show, she\u2019s executive producer, she actually made her directing debut with one of the episodes. And so it\u2019s just exciting to see her sort of really like come into her voice and come into her own with this new show. <\/p>\n

Washington: <\/b>Kind of reminds me a little bit of, you know, now maybe a decade ago Issa Rae\u2019s surge in L.A. and comedy creating, and then Riz Ahmed, who you spoke with last week \u2014 same thing creating and starring and stuff. Seems like that\u2019s the energy [we\u2019re] getting from a lot of the young talent. Well, here is Mark and Rachel now.<\/p>\n

\"Rachel <\/p>\n

Rachel Sennott, creator and star of HBO\u2019s \u201cI Love L.A.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Evan Mulling \/ For The Times)<\/p>\n

Mark Olsen: <\/b>We\u2019re here with Rachel Sennott, creator, executive producer, writer, star, and for the first time, director on the show \u201cI Love L.A.,\u201d as well as co-creator and writer on \u201cBig Mistakes.\u201d That\u2019s a lot.<\/p>\n

Rachel Sennott: <\/b>When you say it like that, I\u2019m like, \u201cOh, my God.\u201d And I\u2019m also a friend, daughter, let\u2019s not forget girlfriend. Yeah, those are all things that I am doing. And I am so grateful and having so much fun doing that.<\/p>\n

Olsen: <\/b>Hopefully this isn\u2019t something that just I get a kick out of, but we\u2019re here at the L.A. Times offices in El Segundo, and the Randy Newman song \u201cI Love L.A.,\u201d one of the first lines in the song is \u201cRolling down the Imperial Highway.\u201d And we are in fact on Imperial Highway.<\/p>\n

Sennott: <\/b>We\u2019re here right now. We\u2019re living it.<\/p>\n

Olsen: <\/b>Tell me about the title of the show, its relationship to the song and what was it that you liked about having the show called \u201cI Love L.A.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sennott: <\/b>We were between two titles for a while, \u201cI Love L.A.\u201d and \u201cClimbers,\u201d and the reason we went with \u201cI Love L.A.\u201d is because in the process of making the show, I moved here from New York and I had a hard time when I was first here. And in the process of filming the pilot, I really fell in love with L.A., and I think getting to make something here, I all of a sudden saw L.A. through this lens where everything was like a movie. I would go on my walks that I usually go on. I would walk through my neighborhood, I would go to my spots, and I just saw it through this different lens, and I was really falling in love with it in the process of making the show. And I think with \u201cClimbers,\u201d that title fell a little bit \u2014 it was a double meaning of like social climbers and then also, being the age that I am, where I feel like ever since I got to college, ever since I became an adult, there\u2019s been this chaotic energy in the world and uncertain ground where things never felt expected. It was always unexpected events. Graduating into COVID and then there was a strike and everything. So I feel like Sisyphus, where you\u2019re always pushing the rock up the hill and it\u2019s never enough. But we were worried that \u201cClimbers\u201d would seem too negative … We didn\u2019t want to set people up already judging the characters.<\/p>\n

Olsen: <\/b>And then what has it been like for you learning to be a showrunner in making \u201cI Love L.A.\u201d? It\u2019s funny, your co-showrunner Emma Barrie, she mentioned how you were very organized, but she was struck that you had everything in a pink binder with horses on it. So it was you trying to learn this new thing while also holding on to your essence.<\/p>\n

Sennott: <\/b>I feel so grateful for everyone who works on the show with me. I learned a lot from Emma. I learned from Lorene [Scafaria], who inspired me so much as a director. Aida [Rodgers], our producer, Amy [Gravitt] and Allie [Wasserman] at HBO; Max [Silvestri], who\u2019s one of our EPs and writers. Showrunning is a million different jobs, and some of the jobs I\u2019d done before, some of them I hadn\u2019t, and I felt like I got to see different people shine in certain things, people who are more talented or more skilled at structure than me, people who have directed before, people who understand shots and basically learn from everyone and see that everyone wants the show to be the best it can be. They\u2019re bringing stuff to the table. And so I benefited from everyone else\u2019s skills and talents and just being like, \u201cIf you know how to do this better than me, I\u2019m gonna learn from you and watch you and hopefully take from that so I can do my job better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Olsen: <\/b>In a lot of the press as you\u2019ve been talking about the show, you\u2019ve been talking a lot about the concept of the Saturn return and this sort of chaotic period people have in their late 20s. You yourself now are 30 \u2014<\/p>\n

Sennott: <\/b>Yes, I made it. I literally just finished. I was relieved, but my Saturn return was the process, getting the show picked up and the first season of the show. That was my Saturn return.<\/p>\n

Olsen: <\/b>Can you already feel that something has settled or things are different somehow?<\/p>\n

Sennott: <\/b>Yes, a thousand percent. My Saturn return, the dates that it was the strongest were the month around when the show got picked up. Making the pilot was so amazing and I learned so much. And then I was in this moment where I had to pick \u2014 basically, I couldn\u2019t take on acting jobs because I was gonna hopefully do the show, but I didn\u2019t know if the show was picked up yet or not. And so I had to say no to certain things and kind of take this leap. At the same time I went through a breakup, and then I got arrested for having CBD in the Cayman Islands. And it was just a very chaotic month of my life where I was like in jail for six hours on a break with my boyfriend, so he, like, had no idea where I was, and I was like, I don\u2019t even know if I have a show, I just said no to this other thing. I just felt like I didn\u2019t know what was happening. I\u2019m someone who it\u2019s hard for me to take risks sometimes, and that was a big risk and leap into what I thought I should be doing. And then the rest of it was learning for the first season how to do a job I\u2019d never done before. Obviously, I still have more to learn, but I think that was a big Saturn return for me, the roller coaster of it.<\/p>\n

Olsen: <\/b>It\u2019s so interesting to hear you say that you think of yourself as a person who\u2019s afraid of risk, because that\u2019s not my impression of you.<\/p>\n

Sennott:<\/b> You\u2019re like, \u201cStop taking risks. Chill on the risks, every second.\u201d No, I think it\u2019s more [that] I didn\u2019t necessarily believe in myself as a creator on my own, and that was really scary for me. That was the risk, I think.<\/p>\n

Olsen: <\/b>Because especially in building up to making \u201cI Love L.A.,\u201d in your career, I feel like you\u2019ve created this comedic persona for yourself. What is the biggest distinction between the Rachel I think I know and like the actual you?<\/p>\n

Sennott: <\/b>You mean the characters that I play? Or like the persona?<\/p>\n

Olsen: <\/b>These sort of hard-charging, very ambitious, but maybe not always understanding of themselves characters, and you. I\u2019m just interested in how you see the distinction between that persona and the actual you.<\/p>\n

Sennott: <\/b>Well, I hope that the characters that I\u2019ve played have been somewhat different from each other. I think \u201cShiva Baby,\u201d that character, was a little bit more anxiety-inward. Alice in \u201cBodies\u201d was way more outward and kind of no filter, said every inside thought. Maia on \u201cI Love L.A.,\u201d I think, is kind of bitter in the beginning of the first season and is pinning her failures, blaming them, on her friend. All of those characters, I always draw on some element of myself. I think all actors, you have to find some connection to the character. But I think I\u2019m hopefully more grounded and balanced and mature than the character. I hope.<\/p>\n

Olsen: <\/b>You\u2019ve talked about how \u201cI Love L.A.\u201d really explores the foibles and challenges that people have leading these very, like, online lives and the way that people nowadays are really sort of tethered to their phones all the time. Is that something that you feel like you grapple with yourself? Is it something you yourself have had to kind of get over?<\/p>\n

Sennott: <\/b>I would say I started my career on the internet, and I grew up on the internet, and basically, I created a different sort of persona on the internet that was based in truth of a time when I was in my early 20s in New York, and it was a lot more messy and a little chaotic, and I was just going through things in my life at that time [that inspired] \u2014 I say \u201cwriting,\u201d but like the tweets, the jokes, the videos, whatever, that were coming out of me. And then I felt I changed, but I still wanted to kind of project that character. And so I actually ended up putting that character into Tallulah [played by Odessa A\u2019zion]. And I think Maia was a little bit more the version of myself when I first moved to L.A. and I felt isolated and it was during COVID, and I felt I was kind of gripping onto my friends in a codependent way. And so I think the show is sort of dealing with, whether or not you\u2019re an influencer or person online, anyone who\u2019s grown up on the internet is projecting some sort of version of themselves. So I think it was that I was trying to explore.<\/p>\n

Olsen: <\/b>You mentioned that the character of Tallulah is this version of you that you used to be. So what was it like for you creating this character that was almost like your id unleashed?<\/p>\n

Sennott: <\/b>It felt like I was separating myself from her. At first, [it] maybe could have felt like a caricature. And then when we cast Odessa, who is so talented and just, as an actor, she has such depth and range, and I think she asked questions and brought so much to it. Then it actually made me sever myself from the character, and the character became its own thing that she brought to life.<\/p>\n

Olsen: <\/b>Your character, Maia, in some ways is the audience surrogate, she\u2019s kind of the most \u201cnormal\u201d character on the show. And considering that in \u201cBottoms\u201d or \u201cBodies Bodies Bodies\u201d you often were the outrageous character, what has it been like for you to play this character that\u2019s a little more self-contained?<\/p>\n

Sennott: <\/b>It\u2019s been fun. I think we sort of found her during the first season. I feel that Episodes 6 through 8 are really where the show finds its footing and where we find what\u2019s the comedy of Maia. It takes a little for her to kind of crack open, what\u2019s funny about her as a character, but also I think Tallulah is almost like an agent of change for her \u2014 Maia was set in her ways and sort of struggling and depressed, and I think Tallulah puts her on track, and she\u2019s going through her Saturn return and all that stuff. And so I think we get to see at the end of the season and just having been writing Season 2, I think that we get see her do a lot more fun stuff.<\/p>\n

Olsen: <\/b>It\u2019s funny, as viewers, a lot of times people say, \u201cOh, you know, there\u2019s this show you should watch, it really gets going on like Episode 3\u201d or whatever. And I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever heard a creator say before, like, \u201cOh, 6, 7, and 8, we figured it out.\u201d Do you feel you knew that in the moment, or has that only come to you as you\u2019ve been working on Season 2?<\/p>\n

Sennott:<\/b> I think as we were editing the first season. Tone is something that you can say, like, \u201cWe want it to be like, this needs this, and it\u2019s that and that and the tone of that.\u201d But tone is what you find in the edit. I think you shoot different versions of a line, of a scene, and then you piece it together. And I think for me, that\u2019s when I felt like, \u201cThis is the tone of the show. This is the world of the show.\u201d And in writing Season 2 as well, just living more in that world.<\/p>\n

Olsen: <\/b>You kind of touched on this, but the characters on the show, they kind of skirt this line between being endearing and annoying. What is it that you like about that?<\/p>\n

Sennott: <\/b>Because I think that\u2019s how people are. I am not interested in seeing perfect people or people who are flawed in a way that\u2019s not actually real. So I love all the characters. I think Alani [played by True Whitaker], for example, is someone where you could really easily be like, \u201cOh, a nepo baby, she\u2019s so privileged, whatever.\u201d I think she\u2019s the character with the biggest heart. She\u2019s the best friend out of the whole group. She cares for everyone. She\u2019s so deeply sensitive. And she\u2019s actually been through a lot of s\u2014 and she drops these little things, these clues where you\u2019re like, \u201cGee, she went through something crazy but is choosing to look at life half-full,\u201d and I think that\u2019s fun. I like the characters who make you feel or expect something of them and then show you another side. Charlie [played by Jordan Firstman] I think does that as well, where you meet him and you think he\u2019s a little acerbic, he\u2019s a little judgmental, and then he goes through loss and grief when Lukas, spoilers, Lukas Landry dies, RIP Lukas. That\u2019s really hard for him. I\u2019ve been friends with Jordan for so long, and I love him so much. I think he\u2019s so talented. But I think he showed a totally new side of himself with the character.<\/p>\n

Olsen: <\/b>I agree. I found those scenes very touching. There\u2019s an emotion there that\u2019s kind of unexpected. Another moment that I really like in the show is Odessa\u2019s character, she wants to change a dinner reservation to five people at 8 o\u2019clock. And then you have to spend hours trying to make that happen. And I really appreciated how it\u2019s something that sounds like it should be simple, and for some people it\u2019s no big deal. But then for other people, it\u2019s the biggest hurdle imaginable. Did you like that the show explores this sort of proximity to ease? Sometimes you end up at this party in a big, big house, but it\u2019s not your house. Was that something you wanted to explore about life in L.A.?<\/p>\n

Sennott: <\/b>Totally. There\u2019s also something specific to L.A. and specific to the industry we\u2019re exploring \u2014 which is the internet as opposed to Hollywood \u2014 that I would say is relatable to me, to anyone in their late 20s, early 30s. When you\u2019re in your early 20s, everyone\u2019s sort of grouped together or feels like they\u2019re in the same bucket. It\u2019s like, \u201cOh we\u2019re all doing this same thing, we\u2019re all roommates, we\u2019re all in school together, we\u2019re all whatever.\u201d But people make decisions that you don\u2019t even see. I feel like the first time I found out that one of my friends had a SEP IRA, I was like, \u201cWhen did we all decide that we\u2019re getting SEP IRAs?\u201d And it was a friend who loves to party, and I was thrown. Now I\u2019m panicking I didn\u2019t do that. Or who\u2019s getting in a serious relationship, whatever. People start making decisions in their late 20s, all of a sudden everyone\u2019s off on different paths. It\u2019s like, \u201cWait, you\u2019re getting married, but you\u2019re still partying the way that we did when we were in college.\u201d This person is moving, this person is changing their career path. And so you all of a sudden feel a little bit betrayed or on your own, and it\u2019s isolating, and that is something that, yes, we\u2019re doing it through a specific lens of L.A. and this world and these characters, but I think it\u2019s really relatable to people at that age.<\/p>\n

Olsen: <\/b>I\u2019ve heard you describe yourself as a zillennial cusp.<\/p>\n

Sennott: <\/b>Yeah, I\u2019m cusp, and I feel like I relate to a little bit of both.<\/p>\n

Olsen: <\/b>But do you feel a pressure for the show to feel like some sort of a generational statement, to capture these kind of big-picture things?<\/p>\n

Sennott: <\/b>No. Ayo [Edebiri] and I were texting each other because there\u2019s always an article that\u2019s like, \u201cTurns out these b\u2014 are 30. Yeah. They\u2019ve been lying the whole time. They said they\u2019re Gen Z.\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cI didn\u2019t say anything. I was born in \u201995. I\u2019m 30.\u201d Call me what you want, but I was just writing to what I feel at the time. I think people who grew up on the internet in the way that I did will relate to it, but I think you can relate too if you\u2019re older or you\u2019re younger.<\/p>\n

Olsen: <\/b>As people are writing about the show, they very frequently are referencing \u201cGirls,\u201d \u201cInsecure,\u201d \u201cSex and the City.\u201d But I\u2019ve heard you reference \u201cEntourage\u201d<\/a> quite a bit. Could you explain that?<\/p>\n

Sennott:<\/b> \u201cGirls\u201d and \u201cSex and the City\u201d and \u201cInsecure,\u201d all of those shows, all HBO shows, are formative to me as an artist. I remember watching \u201cGirls,\u201d I was in high school and looking at colleges with my dad and we went and toured [New York University], and in the hotel room that night, he was like, \u201cI heard so much about this new show, \u2018Girls,\u2019 we should watch it. And it was the episode with Patrick Wilson where they f\u2014 in his nice apartment the whole time, and we turned it on and my dad was like, \u201cOK, you can watch this later on your own, this is for you.\u201d And I remember going to bed being like, \u201cI\u2019ve gotta go to New York, like whoa, this is crazy.\u201d I think naturally those were already gonna inspire me. \u201cEntourage\u201d and \u201cAtlanta,\u201d those were two references that I mentioned a lot when we were making the show. \u201cEntourage\u201d because I feel I got to come up in this industry with my friends, and when I\u2019m with my friends I feel completely invincible, and so there was that aspect. It was like, \u201cI wanna see \u2018Entourage\u2019 but from a different point of view and perspective and a slightly different industry.\u201d And then \u201cAtlanta,\u201d there is already having a family relationship and friendship on top of managing. Like how [Earn] manages Paperboi. And then I think \u201cAtlanta\u201d did such a great job of capturing a city that has almost magical realism elements to it. And L.A., a lot of the time, there\u2019s things that happen here that are crazy, that feel almost unreal, but they are real. So that was a big inspiration for the show as well. Like the opening of the show, sex during an earthquake. That\u2019s happened to me, but it also feels a little ridiculous, but it happens in L.A.<\/p>\n

Olsen:<\/b> You mentioned earlier that in waiting for the show to come around, you felt you were having to turn things down or you were really having to sort of change your mindset in a way. Can you talk a little more about that? With the show \u201cBig Mistakes\u201d that you created with Dan Levy, is that one of the things that you had to step away from or readjust how you were gonna be involved because of the fact that you were going to have \u201cI Love L.A.\u201d?<\/p>\n

Sennott:<\/b> I was more talking about acting roles. When you step into a creator role, it\u2019s a different mindset than acting jobs and you have to commit to a longer time period. When you\u2019re just acting in things, you can pop in, pop out and you leave set and you\u2019re like, \u201cI love you guys so much. I\u2019ll see you in a year at the premiere,\u201d which is fabulous too \u2014 love doing that. But when you are creating something, you\u2019re in it from beginning to end, and you really wanna give your all to it. So I think I was more talking about just, like, betting on myself as a creator, as opposed to just acting.<\/p>\n

Olsen: <\/b>And how has that felt now that you\u2019re on the other side of it, with one season of \u201cI Love L.A.\u201d made? How do you feel about having made that decision, having bet on yourself like that?<\/p>\n

Sennott: <\/b>I think it\u2019s changed me, in a way where I\u2019m so happy I did it. And it\u2019s sometimes harder and there\u2019s more parts to it, but I feel more in myself creatively than I ever have before, I think.<\/p>\n

Olsen: <\/b>It changed you how?<\/p>\n

Sennott:<\/b> Just because you all of a sudden see all the different parts of the process of making something and all these different jobs that maybe I wasn\u2019t as aware of before. And I think there\u2019s also something beautiful about popping into something and acting and just being like, \u201cI am present as my character. This is what I am thinking about. I\u2019m thinking about what does the character want.\u201d And that\u2019s amazing too. But I feel so lucky to have been able to experience other parts of making something.<\/p>\n

Olsen: <\/b>What was it like learning how to switch hats, especially during production? I would imagine you have a producer brain, you have an actor brain, then for one episode you have a director brain.<\/p>\n

Sennott: <\/b>I had to like sort of take it day by day. There are days where it\u2019s a lighter scene for me and I can be on the side approving locations, taking meetings during lunch. There was a day where I had two sex scenes, for Episodes 6 and 7. So we shot the end of 7, the fight scene with me and Josh [Hutcherson], and the sex scene where it\u2019s Maia and Dylan but she\u2019s fantasizing about Ben. It was a lot. And so I was like, to Emma and Max and Aida, \u201cLet\u2019s not do any other meetings today in the middle of the day,\u201d and they were like, \u201cTotally got you.\u201d That day I was more focused. I really needed to be present in the scene and have this be my main focus. And then on a day where I\u2019m shooting like, \u201cyou\u2019re texting on your phone\u201d and \u201cyou\u2019re walking on your walking treadmill,\u201d I can do other stuff. So I think it was just taking each day as it comes and having so much support from the rest of the team.<\/p>\n

Olsen: <\/b>It\u2019s wild to think of just one day providing all this material for the show. Just a single day could be so pivotal.<\/p>\n

Sennott: <\/b>Yeah, totally. A lot can happen in a day and then other days you\u2019re like, \u201cI\u2019m just opening doors.\u201d You never know.<\/p>\n

Olsen:<\/b> How did you come to conceive of how you kind of wanted to depict the online world, how people text, whether they\u2019re FaceTiming and things like that? The show obviously exists with that world, as part of it, but you didn\u2019t spend a whole lot of time animating texts. How did you come to conceive of how to depict people\u2019s online life?<\/p>\n

Sennott:<\/b> I wanted it to feel how it does in the real world, which is the internet is just a big part of everyone\u2019s life, but people aren\u2019t explaining it to each other all the time. So we wanted to have the internet feel like the real internet, but our own internet. We didn\u2019t want to ever reference anything that would date us because the internet moves so fast. So, like, Coke Larry, for example, when Dylan gets made into a meme, whatever, that\u2019s our own thing, but it moves the same way as the internet does. And we tried not to have too much phone screens, texting, whatever. Like for example you [just] see snippets of Tallulah making videos or posting or whatever. In \u201cEntourage,\u201d you don\u2019t really see that much of Vince acting. You see all the stuff around it. So that was sort of our model for the show.<\/p>\n

Olsen: <\/b>You directed the final episode of the season. Do you expect to be directing more in Season 2?<\/p>\n

Sennott: <\/b>Yeah.<\/p>\n

Olsen: <\/b>And how did you find the experience? What did you like about it?<\/p>\n

Sennott: <\/b>I loved it. You\u2019re just in every aspect of the process. You are thinking about everything, and it was so engaging and exciting, and afterwards I felt fried, and I like crawled onto the edit couch and I was like limp and it took a lot out of me. People describe it like giving birth. And then you\u2019re like, \u201cI gotta do it again.\u201d So that\u2019s kind of how I felt on the other end.<\/p>\n

Olsen: <\/b>Can you talk a little about that final episode? The show is called \u201cI Love L.A.\u201d You send the main characters to New York for the final episode, which has turned into kind of a controversial decision. A lot of people have talked about that. Can you talk just a little about deciding to end the season in New York?<\/p>\n

Sennott:<\/b> I think it was because it was sort of addressing the fact that these girls went to school in New York together. They lived in New York and they chose to move to L.A., and I think when you do that there\u2019s always going to be the push and pull of the two cities, and going back to New York, it was almost like getting a chance to get back together with your ex and being like, \u201cYou know what, there\u2019s a reason it didn\u2019t work out.\u201d And they end the episode with, \u201cI miss L.A.\u201d So I think that\u2019s kind of what we were aiming to do.<\/p>\n

Olsen: <\/b>And then before we wrap up, I should be sure to ask, is there anything that you could tell us about Season 2? What can people look forward to?<\/p>\n

Sennott: <\/b>It\u2019s sort of what we were talking about earlier, Episodes 6 through 8, I think, I just feel we\u2019ve locked in to our tone, we get to see other sides of characters we haven\u2019t before, we go deeper on certain characters. And I think there\u2019s some fun stuff that we set up in the finale that we get to explore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this week\u2019s episode of The Envelope podcast, Rachel Sennott discusses finding the voice of \u201cI Love L.A.\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":875663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,355912,225084,6276,2961,224,5337,7088,355909,140544,198180,3546,100711,16776,355910,355911,4370,17823,49253],"class_list":["post-875662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-different-job","tag-kelvin-washington","tag-l-a","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-lot","tag-love-l-a","tag-mark-olsen","tag-olsen","tag-people","tag-rachel-sennott","tag-risk","tag-saturn-return","tag-series-creator","tag-show","tag-thing","tag-writer"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116770686150384514","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}