HBO Cancels ‘How To Make It In America’
Despite showing promise after a couple of seasons, HBO announced that it is canceling How To Make It In America. The show, whose plot line mimicked the quintessential Horatio Alger story set in our modern day, followed the exploits of Ben Epstein (Bryan Greenberg) and Cam Calderon (Victor Rasuk), a pair of NYC fashion designers on the come up and looking for their big break. How To Make It In America’s realistic storyline and setting made it quite popular especially since the show had deep hip hop roots showcasing the acting chops of Kid Cudi, whose character Domingo Brown was getting significantly more screen time, and Clipse member and G.O.O.D. Music solo rapper Pusha T also made cameos. Other shows given the axe by HBO include Hung and Bored To Death.
What do you think about HBO giving the show the axe? Was it given enough time to fully develop?
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A good story usually has a climax. Especially in TV. If no one ever makes it, where is the release?
I could not get into that new New York, hipster fodder show. And frankly, I thought it perpetuated tired stereotypes of millenials (entitled yet lazy, short-sighted, etc). Peace to Luiz Guzman though.
Why am I just hearing about this show now?
I won’t miss it. The show had some nice eye candy, and I tried to watch some episodes but couldn’t get into it. As long as HBO doesn’t cancel Boardwalk Empire I don’t care what else they axe.
I never heard of this show, but now I’m curious…
I tried to get into it (watched several episodes) but just couldn’t. I used to be sort of a hipster (still am to large extent), but there was just something too pretentious about all of the characters (they reminded me of so many fake people in my generation that I can’t stand); and the show was just too male-focuses (like every damn HBO show) and women seemed like sex objects for the male characters’ pleasure only. With all of that together, I just couldn’t dig it. At all.
*male-focused*
no i’m so sad i loved this show :/
It is a travesty! My entire Sunday night line up is screwed. It cuts out an entire demographic of new viewers to HBO, and I think that it will be detrimental to their ratings and viewership next season. Hung, according to MSNBC, had 3.4 million viewers and was the most watched of the shows that was canceled, but because critics (assuming, white critics) fell in love with the new HBO series, Enlightened, and it was nominated for two Golden Globes had less viewers than Hung and HTMIIA. How to make it spoke to the ethnic, hip and younger viewers, now instead they’re catering to the privileged middle class white males with shows like Angry Boys.
noooo not hung… i like that its so different. there are no shows that about a male prostitute and a female pimp. i likie
Gah the dreaded “H” word. Despite the fact that I HATE the label “hipster” with a vengence, as NO ONE seems to have a concise definition of it other than some one under the age of 35 who breaths, I liked this show. It’s no where near as challenging as Boardwalk Empire or Dr Who, but alot of it feels familiar. The characters remind me of guys that I know. While I agree alot of the girls aren’t given very memorable roles they aren’t the main characters either. The lead does have a commited relationship for almost the whole season though and he has a very messy breakup the first season. It was one of the few current dramas I’ve seen targeted at youth (specifically 20 somethings) that doesn’t revolve around New Jersey, plastic surgery, and booze.
I actually liked this show. I enjoyed watching a show that focused on the idea of wanting to build something for yourself. As an aspiring entrepreneur I found the storyline relate-able in a lot of ways. As some mentioned it was definitely better to watch then the normal shows aimed at younger viewers.
The only show I cared about on HBO was “Entourage”- anything else was just complete rubbish to me.
I’m sad to see it go. All the characters were quite likable and Kid Cudi was a pleasant surprise on the small screen. At least Chef Roble & Co. can fill the Sunday night void.