How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Paul W. Downs

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Paul W. Downs can’t assistance it that adjacent connected the weekends, his beingness intersects with “Hacks,” the HBO drama helium co-created and co-showruns with his wife, Lucia Aniello, and their person Jen Statsky. (He besides appears connected the amusement arsenic Jimmy LuSaque Jr., the besieged manager of its 2 stars, played by Emmy winners Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder.) The 5th and last play of “Hacks” premiered past week, but connected Downs’ days off, helium often finds himself astatine its erstwhile filming locations oregon hanging retired with formed members who person go similar family.

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Downs moved to Los Angeles successful 2011, but soon after, helium and Aniello were hired to constitute (and for him to act) connected the über-New York amusement “Broad City,” keeping them distant from the West Coast for years. Now the mates unrecorded successful Los Feliz, which they bask with their young son.

“I emotion Los Feliz due to the fact that it’s a existent vicinity with restaurants and bars, but besides feels adjacent to quality with Griffith Park,” Downs says. “Also it’s precise cardinal to my Eastside friends and Westside agents.”

And if helium had to unrecorded astatine a section mall, similar the quality Ava Daniels did successful the 3rd play of “Hacks,” which would helium choose?

“It would beryllium the Americana, obviously.”

Here’s however he’d walk a cleanable time successful L.A.

10 a.m.: A precocious emergence and a li’l barista

I’m sleeping successful if I can, which I can’t due to the fact that I person a toddler, but let’s accidental I tin slumber ’til 10. That would beryllium insane.

Then I’m making java astatine home. I’m making it with my 4-year-old due to the fact that helium likes to marque my java now. He ever wanted to help, present helium truly wants to bash it connected his own. I’m inactive determination to supervise, but helium does bash a batch of it.

I bash batch brew. I’m doing Verve Coffee that I’m grinding there, and past I’m brewing 4 cups due to the fact that I request my coffee. I had a Moccamaster for a agelong time, but I precocious got a Simply Good Coffee. There’s nary integrative — it’s each solid and metal.

11 a.m.: Chocolate croissants for everyone

We’re driving to Pasadena and we’re going to [Artisanal Goods by] CAR, which is the spot to get the champion cocoa croissant, I think, successful the world. I don’t conscionable deliberation successful L.A., I deliberation they’re amended than Paris. I’m going determination with my woman and my kid and I’m having different java and immoderate pastry. We’re ordering 3 [chocolate croissants]. We’re not doubling up.

11:45 a.m.: The household business

We’re driving to Fair Oaks successful Pasadena. There’s a spot called T.L. Gurley. We changeable “Hacks” there, actually. Not lone successful Season 1, but besides afloat ellipse successful Season 5. We’re going to shmay astir and look astatine antiques. My kid is going to privation to play a vintage pinball machine. We’re going to find a small portion of creation for the location oregon what person you. It’s not needfully that I’m connected the hunt. It’s to walk the clip and to person immoderate fun. If I could bash thing and person a leisurely time and instrumentality my caput disconnected work, that’s what I’m doing.

People emotion to interact with my kid erstwhile he’s there. We’re truly grooming him to appraise things astatine a young age. My parents are part-time dealers of antiques. My grandma bought and sold antiques. It’s benignant of a household business.

1:30 pm.: Baguettes and books

We’re driving to Larchmont and we’re getting a sandwich astatine Larchmont Village Wine, Spirits & Cheese. I’m doing prosciutto-mozzarella-basil connected a baguette.

Then we’re going to Chevalier’s Books. What’s bittersweet is that I’m often not looking for leisure material. I’m looking for thing that I’m funny successful learning much astir oregon penning about, oregon that they’re turning into a amusement I privation to audition for. But we’re besides doing Little Golden Books for my son. He’s obsessed. We’re not immense connected surface time, truthful we truly promote the book-buying.

2:30 p.m.: Cast excavation party

We’re having immoderate household amusive successful the excavation and we’re doing that until evening. We invitation radical implicit each the time. My sister-in-law is simply a New Yorker, but she really wrote past play connected “The Rooster” and she’s often penning connected shows successful L.A., truthful she’s often present and she’ll person a mates friends travel over. I cognize this sounds similar a portion of PR oregon something, but we’ll truly virtually person Hannah [Einbinder] and possibly Mark Indelicato from “Hacks” travel implicit to swim. Jen, our co-creator of “Hacks,” volition travel over.

6:00 p.m.: Family dinner

Sometimes we’ll bid Grá to the house, which is simply a pizza spot successful Echo Park — fantabulous sourdough crust pizza. But if we don’t bash that, an perfect evening is an aboriginal meal astatine All Time connected Hillhurst successful Los Feliz. We’re ordering the ceviche and my lad is having each of it and not sharing with anybody astatine the table.

8:45 p.m.: A thrilling ending to the day

After putting my kid to bed, my woman and I, successful an perfect satellite (full disclosure: we haven’t done this successful 2 years), we’ll ticker thing unneurotic that we’ve been meaning to watch. We person a agelong database of movies and we either privation to revisit oregon that we haven’t seen that we request to watch.

We don’t ticker a batch of comedies. It’s a imagination to ticker a “Black Bag” oregon a small espionage thriller. We truly similar that due to the fact that it’s truthful antithetic than the worldly that we’re moving connected successful the day.

Often the things we ticker are things that we admire. We similar deconstructing it arsenic fans of movie and television. We bash similar talking astir the making of it, but it’s little of a critique and much of a listing of the things we appreciated astir it.