When I first moved to Los Angeles, everyone told me to give it "at least two years." They said that's how long it would take to find out whether I could live there. But to like it, let alone love it? Who knows! Everything was beautiful and nothing felt real. As a spinning Rachel Sennott put it in a bizarrely compelling 2020 video that's essentially a succinct thesis statement for the dissertation that is her 2025 HBO show: "Come on! It's L.A.! Haha! What?! It's L.A.!"
Banishing her terrifying memory of a seagull stealing a Big Mac from her hand on O'Connell Street, Chloë McPolin dons some Barbour and heads west for falconry and the aristocratic life... Hobby comrades, I believe I've officially "come up" in the world. As you know, I have an insatiable urge to behave and dress as though I belong to the landed gentry. Naturally, this includes picking up a hobby that lets me hobnob with the rich and famous.