EPISODE
SEASON
How to Make It in America - Season 1
A group of 20 somethings living in New York City. Ben and Cameron work on starting a fashion company, while enjoying their lives in the greatest city in the world.
1 August 1963, Boulder, Colorado, USA
5 April 1973, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
2 June 1979, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
5 July 1926, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
6 May 1971, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
22 January 1988, New York City, New York, USA
February 14, 2010
If you're not a fan of hipster posers and the New York young bohemian scene, there's much about How to Make It to rub you the wrong way.
June 11, 2018
A loose and affectless (but not devoid-of-charm) half-hour, How to Make It in America is either a mostly laugh-less comedy, or an entirely stakes-free drama.
February 14, 2010
Pleasurable, amusing, well conceived and written.
May 09, 2018
[It] attempts to hide the fact that it is simply uninspired, barely obscuring that fact with its trend-setting music choices (there is already a free mixtape ready to download on the show's site), anti-fashion clothing, and street talk.
June 11, 2018
It takes a while to catch on to each character's motivations, and the no-frills script doesn't do a lot of hand-holding. But by the end of the first episode... you feel certain that America may, in fact, be going somewhere.
June 11, 2018
The road is not easy to travel... There is a fine line between a realistic show that follows characters throughout their day while still being compelling and the show being boring.
February 14, 2010
I think How to Make It in America has a lot going for it, if show creator Ian Edelman can keep from indulging in New York hipster cliches.
June 11, 2018
This sad sack of a show plays like an East Coast, economically challenged version of his HBO hit "Entourage."
February 14, 2010
Everyone in How to Make It isn't a winner. But the show looks to be just that.
June 11, 2018
It never feels genuine, just generic. It's so blatantly cut from the same pattern as Entourage, merely made with inferior fabric.
February 14, 2010
I had few expectations for the series, in part because of the lack of buzz from HBO, and I found myself pleasantly surprised by the early episodes.
June 11, 2018
All in all How to Make It had us interested. Primarily because we are in love with Bryan [Greenberg] and would watch him do just about anything.