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I Love LA, HBO’s latest comedy series starring and helmed by Rachel Sennott, concluded its eight-episode run in India on JioHotstar on 22 December 2025. In the season finale, Maia turns down her ex-boss Ben’s job offer and takes Tallulah to the Formé Dinner after Charlie finds her a new outfit. Meanwhile, Dylan gets together with his colleague Claire, Maia’s arch-nemesis.

I Love LA, Rachel Sennott’s comedy TV series, dropped its season 1 finale on 22 December 2025 on JioHotstar, concluding its eight-episode run full of it-girl drama, fluid friendships and ambitious rivalry. If you have just finished watching the episode, you might have some questions about Maia Simsbury’s (played by Sennott) time in New York. So, without further ado, here’s the I Love LA ending, explained.

Directed by Sennott, I Love LA is an HBO comedy series that follows the life of Maia, an ambitious employee at Alyssa180, a Los Angeles-based talent management agency owned by her boss Alyssa (played by Leighton Meester).

But Maia’s personal and professional life turns upside-down when Tallulah Stiel (played by Odessa A’zion), her estranged best friend, shows up at her doorstep unannounced, bringing life-changing career opportunities along with a lot of chaos in her tribe that includes Alani Marcus (played by True Whitaker), Charlie (played by Jordan Firstman) and Dylan (played by Josh Hutcherson), her boyfriend.

So, what happens in the lives of these five adults whose existence revolves around modern dating, the internet, and its ever-changing algorithms, and how does it set up season 2? (Yes, HBO has confirmed the comedy series will return for a second season.) Our I Love LA season 1 ending explained piece answers those questions.

Spoilers ahead!

I Love LA season 1 ending explained: What goes down in New York?

The finale of I Love LA opens with Alani and Maia, who is now single and unemployed, arriving in New York for Tallulah’s fittings with the stylist, Antoine (played by Tim Baltz), for the Formé Dinner. With both Dylan and her sleazy ex-boss Ben (played by Colin Woodell) on her mind, Maia accompanies Tallulah for her dress fitting, where the latter decides to do the one thing that she seems to love doing the most – take stuff that isn’t hers.

Tallulah thinks the black gown that Antoine has picked out for her isn’t quite her look, so she decides to steal another one off his racks instead, without letting Maia know.

Later that night, the girls decide to go out for a drink, which soon multiplies into several drinks after Ben arrives at their table, flirting his way into convincing Maia to use his credit card for their night out instead.

Back in Los Angeles, Charlie arrives at Dylan’s home to comfort him at his friend’s request. The two share a vulnerable moment as they open up and vent about their respective relationships. As Dylan hears Charlie talk about his ex-boyfriend Andrew, he advises Charlie to reach out to him.

While Dylan obviously misses Maia, much to his disappointment, she seems to be caught in her own world once again. This is proven to him when the next morning, a panicky Maia calls Charlie after she and Tallulah wake up with highly unprofessional matching tattoos. Dylan, who has now seen this behaviour one too many times, walks out of the house in frustration.

Much like the other two girls, Alani wakes up in her dad’s apartment with a shock awaiting her when she discovers a woman who is not her mother in their apartment. Much to her horror, this woman introduces herself as Denise (played by Whitney Rice), her father’s girlfriend.

Devastated by this revelation, Alani decides to confront her father when he arrives back home with her mother, only to find out that Denise wasn’t his girlfriend but a stalker who has been haunting him for over 15 years now! Before Alani can process this information, Denise stabs her dad in the arm and runs away, leading to even more chaos.

After her call with Charlie, Ben arrives at Maia’s room under the pretext of “picking up his credit card”. The two start making out, and soon enough, he asks her to join his company, Mercer Digital, by offering her a jaw-dropping salary. But she realises that her ex-boss doesn’t really want her – he just wants to control her.

In the meantime, Charlie, on Maia’s request, arrives in New York with a new outfit for Tallulah. He convinces her not just to decline the job offer, but also to lie to Tallulah about it so that she doesn’t get disappointed in her best friend and manager. He then goes off to reconcile with Andrew.

I Love LA ending explained: How does season 1 conclude?

Maia finally decides to call Dylan, but when she does, he doesn’t pick up. The reason? He is in bed with Claire, Maia’s arch-nemesis.

The HBO series concludes with Maia and Tallulah running towards the subway while wearing chic formal attire. Thanks to Denise, who stabbed a famous Hollywood producer, the streets of LA are now closed, which makes the girls realise that the only way they will make it to the Formé Dinner in time is by taking public transport.

You can watch I Love LA in India on JioHotstar.

(Hero and Featured image: Courtesy of HBO – © HBO via IMDb)

The information in this article is accurate as of the date of publication.

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Maia wearing a Saint Laurent Black Off-the-Shoulder Feather-Trim Short Jumpsuit (sold out — similar below), Miu Miu Blue Floral Print Wedge Sandals, and using a Wildflower Cases Red Gingham Heart iPhone Case.

Maia wearing a Lever Couture Yellow One-Shoulder Draped Dress (unavailable for purchase).

Tallulah wearing Saint Laurent Brown Platform Sandals and carrying a Balenciaga Black Leather Le Cagole Shoulder Bag (or get an affordable dupe here).

Alan wearing a Kiki de Monparnasse Yellow Lace Asymmetric Dress and Dsquared2 Black Dominatrix Sandals.

Maia wearing a vintage Herve Leger Off-White Mini Dress (unavailable — similar below).

Tallulah wearing a Paly Hollywood Washed Black Satan’s Sandbox T-Shirt and Marc Jacobs Brown Leatehr Platform Boots.

Courtney wearing a Rachel Antonoff Red Floral Check Mini Dress.

Maia wearing a Vivienne Westwood White Button Down Flared Vest, a Chopova Lowena Orange Printed Pleated Mini Skirt, Valentino Black/White Geometric Print Platform Patent Pumps, and Simuero Gold Cherry Earrings.

Maia wearing a Jean Paul Gaultier White/Navy Striped Tie-Front Crop Top and a Miss Sixty Pleated Belted Denim Mini Skirt.

Tallulah wearing a Rui Zhou Black Intarsia Cardigan (sold out — similar below).

Tallulah wearing a Rick Owens Black Coated Denim Strapless Mini Dress (or get an affordable dupe here).

Alani wearing a Jean Paul Gaultier Black Long Sleeve Mesh Inset Midi Dress (sold out — similar below), Supreme Black Rectangle Sunglasses, and carrying a vintage Saint Laurent Black Woven Tassel Crossbody Bag.

Courtney wearing a Rachel Antonoff Pink Scallop Trim Cardigan and a Rachel Antonoff Black/Pink Teleophone Sleeveless Midi Dress.

Maia wearing Edikted Tie-Waist Low Rise Denim Shorts and Vibi Venezia Pink Velvet Mary Jane Flats.

Maia wearing a vintage 1997 Chloe Pink Sheer Lace Sleeveless Top and Yellow Lace Silk Skirt (sold out — recreate the look with pieces below).

Maia wearing a vintage 2000 Dolce & Gabbana Black Rose Print Bustier Dress (sold out — similar below) and a Mondo Mondo Gold and Ruby Super Heart Necklace.

Tallulah wearing a Wi Spa Yellow T-Shirt (not available for purchase).

Tallulah wearing a vintage silver and onyx cuff bracelet and a vintage diamond flower gold ring.

Alani wearing a vintage 2003 Dolce & Gabbana White Super Nature Lace-Up Crop Top and an Urban Outfitters Kimchi Blue Plaid Bubble Mini Skort (pattern sold out).

Courtney wearing a Cider Blue Jacquard Cat Corset Top (sold out — get a similar top by Cider below).

Maia wearing a vintage Dolce & Gabbana Pink Satin Lace-Trim Corset Top, a Sandy Liang Silver Sparkle Star Necklace, and carrying a Dior Black Crystal Embellished Saddle Bag (exact bag unavailable — similar below).

Tallulah carrying a Balenciaga Black Leather Le Cagole Shoulder Bag (or get an affordable dupe here).

Alani wearing a vintage Jean Paul Gaultier Black Denim Layered Deconstructed Mini Skirt.

Maia wearing a RE/DONE Red Graphic T-Shirt and a vintage Prada Purple Geometric Print Mini Skirt (buttons switched out).

Alani wearing a vintage Jean Paul Gaultier Gothic Church Print Mesh Button Up Shirt.

Maia wearing an Orseund Iris White Pleated Belted Mini Dress (sold out — similar below).

Tallulah wearing Justine Clenquet Grey Denim Slingback Buckle Pumps and carrying a Balenciaga Black Leather Le City Tote Bag (or get a similar bag for less here).

Maia wearing a Merch Motel Bob Baker Marionette Theater Wizard Clown Hat and using a Wildflower Red Gingham Heart iPhone Case.

Maia wearing a pink triple flower claw hair clip.

Maia wearing a Dilara Findikoglu Red Corset Mini Dress (no longer available — recreate the look with the pieces below).

Maia wearing a Mondo Mondo Gold and Ruby Super Heart Necklace.

Tallulah wearing a vintage Vivienne Westwood Black Queen Elizabeth Corset Top.

Tallulah wearing a vintage Liquid Blue Psycho Skull Print T-Shirt and carrying a Balenciaga Black Leather Le City Tote Bag (or get a similar bag for less here).

Tallulah wearing a Bec + Bridge Black Cut Out C rop Top (sold out — get it on Depop here or get a dupe below).

Alani wearing a Miu Miu Blue Short Sleeve Polo, Mugler Black Contrast Stitch Biker Shorts (sold out — get another pair by Mugler below), and carrying Fendi Brown Leopard Print Tote Bag (sold out — get a similar bag by Fendi below).

Alyssa wearing a Dolce & Gabbana Floral Tie-Neck Silk Blouse (sold out — get a similar blouse by D&G below).

Alyssa wearing a Simon Miller Green Sleeveless Knit Fringe Maxi Dress (color sold out).

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“You’re a bad person.”

That’s the final line in I Love LA’s third episode (heard just before Ttrruuces’ 2020 song “Bad Kids” leads us into the credits) and it may be the single most revealing bit of dialogue in Rachel Sennott’s HBO series yet. It’s almost unimportant who’s saying it to whom because it could very well be addressed to any of our main four characters, all of whom spend this episode basically testing our limits as to how much enjoyment we might get from watching (extremely online) bad people behaving badly in increasingly deranged ways.

If we are truly being offered a dissection of a very specific subsection of L.A. Gen Z, I’ll be the first to admit that it is nothing short of terrifying: No wonder L.A. and Gen Z get such a bad rap.

We begin with a bit of good news/bad news: The internet giveth (that’s how a famous chef slips into Tallulah’s DMs for a fun flirting session/”come to my restaurant” texting banter) and the internet taketh away (looks like Paulena has gone ahead and blasted her videos on Tallulah for all her followers to watch). It’s bad. Real bad. So much so that Maia is once again on the phone with her dad (an insurance lawyer) figuring out how brand unsafe her friend/client is with this kind of toxic PR coming her way.Not only is Tallulah being labeled a thief (“She took my Balenciaga bag!”) but also a ketamine fiend. That’s enough to make Tallulah spiral, all while Alani, Charlie (who’s now banned from cutting the line at Canyon Coffee—what is he supposed to do, wait in line like he’s an assistant at UTA?), and eventually Maia comfort her and try to calm her down.

Tallulah can’t not look at her phone. She also can’t not respond angrily to all those trolling comments on her page and can’t let Paulena get away with all of this. This is the world she’s created for herself, so she can’t just do nothing—not when people are openly saying she’s a horrible person. “No, you’re beautiful and good. We’re all beautiful and good,” Maia insists, as if saying it out loud somehow makes it automatically true.

And so, by the time Alani dunks her phone in water, they all have nothing else to do but to go on about their days without that loaded weapon of sorts. “It’s gonna be fine,” Maia says and immediately heads back to work to see what Alyssa can provide in terms of crisis management. (After all, Tallulah has a TRESemmé deal on the line. They don’t wanna mess that up.)

The crisis-management meeting is as hilariously obscene as you’d imagine (white on white bullying of this kind, we’re told, is easier to bounce back from than many others), and so long as Maia remembers that what’s best for a friend is not what’s best for a client, she should be fine. All Tallulah has to do, according to their crisis rep, is issue an apology the next day (according to crisis math) and boom, the TRESemmé deal should stay intact. That is, of course, not likely what Tallulah wants (can you even picture her apologizing?) nor what Maia thinks is best (focused as she is on her friend), but she tells Alyssa she’ll do as she’s told.

Once more, I Love LA pitches itself as offering a painfully accurate (if, perhaps, slightly dated—why are we dragging Reddit here as if that’s where a lot of online discourse is still happening in 2025?) of life in L.A. for those who seek and covet fame—even or specifically of the online variety.

Thankfully, Maia has an offline life she can still find solace in: She’s spending her evening with Dylan, who’s baked snickerdoodles for his school’s bake sale. It’s there she’s confronted with seemingly another cruel reality about a specific subsection of Angelenos: the (not-so-secretly) c-words that are the moms of Silver Lake. When Maia tries to solve a spat between two girls over a brownie, insisting they should share, she’s met with disdain from one of said moms: No daughter of hers will deign to share; she’s not there to raise a pushover. And as Maia apologizes for not knowing how things worked in the school, she’s scolded for saying “I’m sorry” so many times. It’s all a quick lesson in thinking that sociopathy is the only way to succeed, that fighting back is the way forward in life. Which, of course, makes her realize she and Tallulah shouldn’t back down in the face of Paulena’s accusations. (That becomes especially important once she sees Paulena has turned Dylan into “Coke Larry,” an online meme from a pic of him from the infamous coke-fueled night that started this all.)

Not that accusations are at all affecting Tallulah, who’s convinced by Alani and Charlie to visit the hot chef from her DMs (played by Moses Ingram) at her buzzy restaurant. It’ll be a chance to enjoy their night out and, for Charlie, a way to ingratiate himself with the gays in the service industry who have all collectively turned on him for his fallout with Mimi Rush. Just like last week, this is peak sitcom B-plot, especially once Tallulah keeps trying to find an iPad or a phone she could use to fire back at her haters only to discover herself in the back of house watching her fun flirtation be derailed by a tone-deaf ketamine joke. (Between the bake sale and this restaurant meet-cute, one almost wishes everyone here could just get off their phone and enjoy face-to-face interactions that have nothing to do with likes or follows or deals and, as the kids say, touch grass).

That’s when Maia arrives finally ready to do what Tallulah’s has long wanted: “Should we take this bitch down?” she asks. Turns out that’s easier than any of them could have imagined; as Alani soon remembers, she’d met Paulena in Spanish class (she also went to Crossroads) and, lo and behold, she’s let go of her last name because it’s…Rikers. Yes, as in the island, the prison. That’s enough ammo for Tallulah to create a damning “non-apology” video where she calls out Paulena’s nepo-prison lineage (and the fact that her father, according to Alani, had to “move overseas because he was too good at business?”), eventually giving her followers a new target on which to feast and pile on.

Which brings us to the foursome basking in the sun at their favorite coffee shop as they relish having taken down Paulena, soaking up the dopamine hits of the shameful pile-ons that the internet has unleashed on her (“It’s dangerous but fair, like the ocean,” says Alani of the ’net), all while Maia gets a text from Alyssa letting her know the TRESemmé deal is a no-go. Did she do the right thing sticking by her friend rather than counseling her as a client? Or did she not think two steps ahead in service of an enjoyable online takedown?

That’s when they all realize Alani is wearing one of Paulena’s $400 necklaces. “You’re a bad person,” Charlie smirks her way, a coy admission that maybe they all are and that they may very well love it that way.

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