How To Have The Best Sunday In L.a., According To Paul W. Downs

Paul W. Downs can’t thief it that moreover connected nan weekends, his life intersects pinch “Hacks,” nan HBO drama he co-created and co-showruns pinch his wife, Lucia Aniello, and their friend Jen Statsky. (He besides appears connected nan show arsenic Jimmy LuSaque Jr., nan besieged head 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, he often finds himself astatine its erstwhile filming locations aliases hanging retired pinch formed members who person go for illustration family.

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

“I emotion Los Feliz because it’s a existent vicinity pinch restaurants and bars, but besides feels adjacent to quality pinch Griffith Park,” Downs says. “Also it’s very cardinal to my Eastside friends and Westside agents.”

And if he had to unrecorded astatine a section mall, for illustration nan characteristic Ava Daniels did successful nan 3rd play of “Hacks,” which would he choose?

“It would beryllium the Americana, obviously.”

Here’s really 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 because I person a toddler, but let’s opportunity I tin slumber ’til 10. That would beryllium insane.

Then I’m making java astatine home. I’m making it pinch my 4-year-old because he likes to make my java now. He ever wanted to help, now he really wants to do it connected his own. I’m still location to supervise, but he does do a batch of it.

I do batch brew. I’m doing Verve Coffee that I’m grinding there, and past I’m brewing 4 cups because I request my coffee. I had a Moccamaster for a agelong time, but I precocious sewage 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 nan spot to get nan champion cocoa croissant, I think, successful nan world. I don’t conscionable deliberation successful L.A., I deliberation they’re amended than Paris. I’m going location pinch 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 family business

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

People emotion to interact pinch my kid erstwhile he’s there. We’re really training 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 family 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 sad is that I’m often not looking for leisure material. I’m looking for thing that I’m willing successful learning much astir aliases penning about, aliases that they’re turning into a show I want 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 really promote nan book-buying.

2:30 p.m.: Cast excavation party

We’re having immoderate family nosy successful nan excavation and we’re doing that until evening. We induce group complete each nan 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 for illustration a portion of PR aliases something, but we’ll really virtually person Hannah [Einbinder] and possibly Mark Indelicato from “Hacks” travel complete to swim. Jen, our co-creator of “Hacks,” will travel over.

6:00 p.m.: Family dinner

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

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

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

We don’t watch a batch of comedies. It’s a dream to watch a “Black Bag” aliases a small espionage thriller. We really for illustration that because it’s truthful different than nan worldly that we’re moving connected successful nan day.

Often nan things we watch are things that we admire. We for illustration deconstructing it arsenic fans of movie and television. We do for illustration talking astir nan making of it, but it’s little of a critique and much of a listing of nan things we appreciated astir it.

10:30 p.m.: No activity tomorrow

And past it’s lovemaking ’til greeting connected a cleanable Sunday. If it’s a cleanable Sunday, there’s besides a Monday that’s off.