HBO may be back from the premium channel dumps with its new show How to make it in America. I had never heard of it until a friend (thanks, Nick!) sent it over, solely based on the fact that some of the music featured on this site also featured in the show. Well, we just watch the first episode here and we think the show is dope. Forget the L.A. lifestyle of entourage, and the Upper East side panache of Samantha and the girls, this show is all downtown! It’s got art, it’s got grit, it’s got hustle, it’s got street, and it’s got music (with cred0. It’s a bit too early to comment on the show as we have only watched the first episode tonight, but we think this show has massive potential and appeal to not only NYCity dwellers, but to anyone who has been confronted with the decision of whether or not to chase their dreams, or to let them fall by the waste side and decide to grow up and ‘get a real job’. It’s a question we tear down and weigh everyday. We think that’s going to be the underlying, universal question of this show based on the first episode, with all the usual quarrels, violence and sex that make any television show successful. But most of all, it’s an escape for 30 minutes. And everyone can use an escape once a week. The question is whether or not you’ll want to spend yours with a few hoodlums trying to flip a quick buck in their search for their golden ticket out of Queens.
Cheers to HBO for this one. Also, check out the facebook mixtape put together by Kid Cudi, DJ Green Lantern, and Broke Mogul here. As always let us know if you agree, or you think it’s just another hipster fad that won’t make it past the first season.
Update: New York Times review can be found here.
