The Extremely Online Bona Fides of “I Love L.A.”

In Sunday’s season finale of “I Love L.A.,” Los Angeles is blamed for getting between the show’s protagonist, Maia (Rachel Sennott), and her live-in boyfriend, Dylan (Josh Hutcherson). After their relationship falls apart, Maia, an aspiring talent manager, absconds to New York with her only client, Tallulah (Odessa A’zion), a party girl turned influencer, so that the pair can attend a fashion dinner that will increase Tallulah’s profile. Maia and Dylan go on a break, which gives her the leeway to pursue an opening at a big-league agency by hooking up with an old boss. These would seem to be irreconcilable differences, but her most emotionally astute friend, Charlie (Jordan Firstman), still tries to play couples therapist, reassuring Dylan that their environs are to blame. “This town,” he says, has turned Maia “bad and hard.”

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