History Series / TheLAComplex

* ShoutOut: Tariq's first job in the music industry? Coming up with beats for an upcoming {{Drake}} project.

* ActorAllusion: [[JewelStaite Raquel's]] show that everyone knows her from ended before its time because of a lousy timeslot, similar to [[Series/{{Firefly}} another show]].
** Alan Thicke guests as an overly Christian actor who's producing his own show. Some viewers might pick up the TakeThat to his former ''GrowingPains'' costar Kirk Cameron.

* DawsonCasting: Discussed, especially when 30-year-old Raquel goes out for TeenDrama roles.

* HeyItsThatPlace: Isn't there a "Wilhelm" store across the street from [[Series/{{Degrassi}} The Dot]]?
** The community center where Raquel's AA meets looks ''nothing at all'' like Degrassi...

* OnlySoManyCanadianActors: Present but not as overbearingly so as you'd expect in an Epitome production.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: CW's "let's wait a few months after the Canadian airdates to show it in the US" attitude led to massively lower ratings than in Canada (the CW premiere reportedly garnered the lowest ratings ever recorded on network television). Season 2 will be broadcast at the same time.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Abby originally ''was'' Manny Santos, in what was originally planned as a straight SpinOff of ''Series/{{Degrassi}}''.
* WhiteDwarfStarlet: Raquel

* WorkingTitle: ''Highland Gardens''.

* ChurchOfHappyology: The Church of Scientetics gets involved at one point. There's a reference to "Nexu" (pronounced knee-zoo).

* ChurchOfHappyology: The Church of Scientetics gets involved at one point.

* TooGoodToLast

Series about young performers trying to make it big in Hollywood, all living in a converted motel called the Deluxe Suites (or "Luxe for short), produced by Epitome Pictures (the people behind ''{{Degrassi}}'' and ''InstantStar'').

* HeyItsThatPlace: Isn't there a "Wilhelm" store across the street from [[{{Degrassi}} The Dot]]?

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Abby originally ''was'' Manny Santos, in what was originally planned as a straight SpinOff of ''{{Degrassi}}''.

* SelfHarm: Connor poured boiling water on himself, deliberately crashed his car and set his house on fire.

* ChurchOfHappyology: Connor's [[spoiler: long-lost sister]].

* TheAllegedCar: Abby's mid-90s Honda Civic. Partly her fault; it has a huge pile of unpaid parking tickets and still sports Ontario plates six months after she arrived in L.A. so no surprise it gets booted in the first episode.

* TheAllegedCar: Abby's mid-90s Honda Civic. Partly her fault; it has a huge pile of unpaid parking tickets and still sports Ontario plates six months after she arrived in L.A. so no surprise it gets booted.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: CW's "let's wait a few months after the Canadian airdates to show it in the US" attitude led to massively lower ratings than in Canada. Season 2 will be broadcast at the same time.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: CW's "let's wait a few months after the Canadian airdates to show it in the US" attitude led to massively lower ratings than in Canada.

Series about young performers trying to make it big in Hollywood, all living in a converted motel called the Deluxe Suites (or "Luxe for short), produced by Epitome Pictures (the people behind ''[[Degrassi]]'' and ''InstantStar'').

* TheAllegedCar: Abby's mid-90s Honda Civic. Partly her fault; it has a huge pile of unpaid parking tickets and still sports Ontario plates six months after she arrived in L.A.