La La Land (TV series)

La La Land is an American television comedy series broadcast on Showtime in the United States, BBC Three in the United Kingdom, and SBS One in Australia. It is a mockumentary which features character comedian Marc Wootton playing three different characters: Shirley Ghostman, a fake psychic; Gary Garner, a wannabe actor; and Brendan Allen, a documentary film-maker.

La La Land
GenreComedy
Created byMarc Wootton
Directed byMisha Manson-Smith
StarringMarc Wootton
ComposerSteve Mason
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes6
Production
Executive producersCharlie Siskel
Misha Manson-Smith
Marc Wootton
ProducerAlexandra Reed
CinematographyMark Schwartzbard
Camera setupSingle-camera
Running time25–28 minutes[1]
Release
Original networkShowtime
(United States)
BBC Three
(United Kingdom)
Original release25 January (2010-01-25) –
1 March 2010 (2010-03-01)

Release

The series was first broadcast on 25 January 2010. It was released on DVD on 7 June 2010.[2]

Episodes
Episode IMDb rating Plot Summary
Episode #1.1 7.5/10 Week one sees Gary Garner, an East-London taxi driver, making himself at home in the lavish Laurel Canyon mansion of Ruta Lee, a film star of Hollywood's golden age he once chauffeured in the UK.
Episode #1.2 7.3/10 Week two see Shirley, Brendan and Gary continue their assuault on Los Angeles and strive to get noticed by those in the know.
Episode #1.3 7.7/10 Laith comes to LA for work and the Ladies of Slay cant keep their eyes off of him.  
Episode #1.4 7.5/10 After four weeks in La La Land, Gary has finally bagged his first ever audition: to front a commercial for a chain of mattress stores.
Episode #1.5 7.2/10 After five weeks in Los Angeles, Shirley is offered his first gig: he's bottom of the bill at a psychic showcase at the Theatre West in Studio City.
Episode #1.6 8.3/10 Gary begins work on a Tommy Wiseau feature film.

Reception

The series received mixed reviews by critics and audience alike. Mike Hale of the New York Times gave a favorable review, writing "while he doesn’t often inspire the helpless laughter that Borat or Da Ali G Show provoke, his quieter, more slowly building situations can have their own devastating payoffs."[3] Heather Havrilesky of Salon praised the dark comedy and narrative, describing the series as capturing "the jackassery inherent to striving."[4] Brian Lowry of Variety gave an unfavorable review, describing Wootton as "poor man's Sacha Baron Cohen" and writing of the series "while Wootton's irreverent antics are sporadically funny enough to win him a cult following, the memorable moments ultimately prove too few and far between."[5] On Rotten Tomatoes, the series holds an approval rating of 57% based on 7 reviews, with an average rating of 2/10.[2] However on IMDb it holds a higher score of 7.9% with 393 reviews.[6]

References
  1. "La La Land Episode Guide". Showtime. 6 March 2010. Archived from the original on 16 March 2010. Retrieved 6 March 2010.
  2. La La Land: Season 1, retrieved 20 January 2021
  3. Hale, Mike (24 January 2010). "Very British, Somewhat Borat and a Lot of Nerve (Published 2010)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  4. ""La La Land": Move over, Borat!". Salon. 24 January 2010. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  5. Lowry, Brian (4 August 2012). "Variety Reviews - La La Land". Variety. Archived from the original on 4 August 2012. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  6. La La Land (TV Series 2010) - IMDb, retrieved 24 April 2023


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