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Heartford wrote:LA is romanticized/set in tons of TV shows and movies because they're made in LA and people from LA are too lazy to bother imagining someplace else... except maybe that weird Hollywood version of New York City where everyone can afford a 3,000 square foot apartment on a barista's salary.

apollo13 wrote:Just out of genuine curiosity.
If you look at Franklin and Bash or the recently cancelled show The Deep End, its setting is in "all the leaves are brown, and the sky is grey" LA, California.
Any speculations as to why?

bgdddymtty wrote:

apollo13 wrote:Just out of genuine curiosity.
If you look at Franklin and Bash or the recently cancelled show The Deep End, its setting is in "all the leaves are brown, and the sky is grey" LA, California.
Any speculations as to why?

A. Los Angeles is the second-largest city in the U.S. TV shows tend to be set in big cities.

B. As opposed to most other large American cities (New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, etc.), L.A. is temperate, amazingly sunny (nearly 300 total days of sunny/partly sunny weather per year), and surrounded by gorgeous beaches. It also gets the runoff of the glitz and glamour associated with Hollywood. It's therefore pretty easy to romanticize.

C. This is no new phenomenon. See, e.g., L.A. Law.

D. You really mangled the context on your lyrical quotation, which points back to B on this list. All the leaves are brown and the sky is gray wherever John Phillips is, because it's a "winter's day." In spite of the season, however, he'd be "safe and warm if (he) was in L.A." Yucky weather is more or less unheard of in Southern California.

Heartford wrote:

bgdddymtty wrote:

apollo13 wrote:Just out of genuine curiosity.
If you look at Franklin and Bash or the recently cancelled show The Deep End, its setting is in "all the leaves are brown, and the sky is grey" LA, California.
Any speculations as to why?

A. Los Angeles is the second-largest city in the U.S. TV shows tend to be set in big cities.

B. As opposed to most other large American cities (New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, etc.), L.A. is temperate, amazingly sunny (nearly 300 total days of sunny/partly sunny weather per year), and surrounded by gorgeous beaches. It also gets the runoff of the glitz and glamour associated with Hollywood. It's therefore pretty easy to romanticize.

C. This is no new phenomenon. See, e.g., L.A. Law.

D. You really mangled the context on your lyrical quotation, which points back to B on this list. All the leaves are brown and the sky is gray wherever John Phillips is, because it's a "winter's day." In spite of the season, however, he'd be "safe and warm if (he) was in L.A." Yucky weather is more or less unheard of in Southern California.

LA is also one of America's least attractive cities (in terms of architecture, not tans n' boobs), also one of the most polluted, most pretentious, and most of all, most overrated. So again, I'm voting for the laziness/lack of creativity/More affordable explanations.

Hannibal wrote:

Heartford wrote:LA is romanticized/set in tons of TV shows and movies because they're made in LA and people from LA are too lazy to bother imagining someplace else... except maybe that weird Hollywood version of New York City where everyone can afford a 3,000 square foot apartment on a barista's salary.

All of this.

Heartford wrote: LA is also one of America's least attractive cities (in terms of architecture, not tans n' boobs), also one of the most polluted, most pretentious, and most of all, most overrated. So again, I'm voting for the laziness/lack of creativity/More affordable explanations.

notanumber wrote:

Heartford wrote: LA is also one of America's least attractive cities (in terms of architecture, not tans n' boobs), also one of the most polluted, most pretentious, and most of all, most overrated. So again, I'm voting for the laziness/lack of creativity/More affordable explanations.

LA probably has the most interesting architecture of any city save possibly New York or Chicago. Mid-century modernism is essentially a Los Angeles creation lead by L.A. architects like Eames, Kappe, Koenig, and Neutra. The case study buildings are, to a one, spectacular. Greene and Greene probably made the best examples of craftsman architecture in the country. LA also has dozens of the most interesting mission and Egyptian revival buildings in the world.

LA architecture gets a bad rap because it's not all clustered together like NY, SF, and Chicago (each of which has more than its share of ugly-ass suburban tracts). But don't hate on the design of the buildings because the urban planners fucked up.

/curmudgeonly rant

notanumber wrote:

Heartford wrote: LA is also one of America's least attractive cities (in terms of architecture, not tans n' boobs), also one of the most polluted, most pretentious, and most of all, most overrated. So again, I'm voting for the laziness/lack of creativity/More affordable explanations.

LA probably has the most interesting architecture of any city save possibly New York or Chicago. Mid-century modernism is essentially a Los Angeles creation lead by L.A. architects like Eames, Kappe, Koenig, and Neutra. The case study buildings are, to a one, spectacular. Greene and Greene probably made the best examples of craftsman architecture in the country. LA also has dozens of the most interesting mission and Egyptian revival buildings in the world.

LA architecture gets a bad rap because it's not all clustered together like NY, SF, and Chicago (each of which has more than its share of ugly-ass suburban tracts). But don't hate on the design of the buildings because the urban planners fucked up.

/curmudgeonly rant