La La Land | |
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Genre | Comedy |
Created by | Marc Wootton |
Directed by | Misha Manson-Smith |
Starring | Marc Wootton |
Composer | Steve Mason |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 6 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Charlie Siskel Misha Manson-Smith Marc Wootton |
Producer | Alexandra Reed |
Cinematography | Mark Schwartzbard |
Camera setup | Single-camera |
Running time | 25–28 minutes [1] |
Original release | |
Network | Showtime (United States) BBC Three (United Kingdom) |
Release | 25 January – 1 March 2010 |
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.
The series was first broadcast on 25 January 2010. It was released on DVD on 7 June 2010. [2]
Episode | Plot Summary |
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Episode #1.1 | 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 | 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 | Laith comes to LA for work and the Ladies of Slay cant keep their eyes off of him. |
Episode #1.4 | 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 | 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 | Gary begins work on a Tommy Wiseau feature film. |
The series received mixed reviews from critics. Mike Hale of The New York Times gave a positive 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 a negative 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]
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