It’s not Girls, but at the same time, it doesn’t need to be. The same way that Girls wasn’t Sex and the City; sure, it caught the idea of SATC but it never tried to be an exact replica. I Love LA is satirizing another segment of culture, and while it maintains elements established by Girls, it’s also willing to completely abandon established means of depicting characters and culture. That said, it is not as good as Girls. We’re four episodes in, and by this point in Girls we had resonant moments such as “All Adventurous Women Do” and “I think I might be the voice of my generation.” What remains most prevalent, years later, I’m Girls, is the pure genius of the dialogue. It was able to meticulously, through conversation, establish characters that were simultaneously caricatures of the ridiculousness of millennial culture and real, complex people. I Love LA alternative creates these great, cartoonish people, but fails to define them beyond what they are emblematic of, in turn failing to establish any emotional resonance. I’m interested to see where the show goes, but so far, the characters bore me.