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Come Fan with UsTuesday, June 23, 2026

So Much For Making It In America

HBO said farewell to How To Make It In America this week, and in the process we lost one of the most ridiculous shows the world has ever seen. You can read this retrospective at Grantland, but really, this parenthentical aside tells the whole story:

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(unless I am dreaming, there was actually an episode that ended with Rasuk wheeling a Viking stove into his project-house apartment so he could impress a girl on the advice of Joe Pantaliano)

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↵How To Make It is one of those things where you really just had to watch it. I hated it, but I think I’ll have to buy the DVDs, just to have them as a historical document one day. For further reading, this sincere attempt to understand the show is pretty much the greatest. “Also, Kid Cudi is a dog-walker slash pot dealer and Luis Guzman is trying to launch an energy drink?”

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