How to Make It in America

Series Similar to How to Make It in America

If you enjoyed How to Make It in America, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Entourage

   2004 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, also on HBO.

   The hit comedy series that takes a look at the day-to-day life of Vincent (Vince) Chase, a hot young actor in Hollywood, and his inner circle. He's brought with him from their hometown in Queens, NY: manager Eric, half-brother Drama, and friend Turtle. The series draws on the experiences of industry insiders to illustrate both the heady excesses of today's celebrity lifestyle, as well as the highs and lows of love and success in show biz. Eric, along with super-agent Ari, keep Vince's star rising while making sound decisions for a long-lasting career in a world of fleeting fame.

2. Workaholics

   2011 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Graduating from college and entering the real world isn't easy, especially for these three unmotivated roommates on Workaholics.

3. Party Down

   2009 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Party Down follows a group of Hollywood dreamers - struggling actors and writers - stuck working as caterers while waiting for their big show business break.

4. The Guest Book

   2017 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   The Guest Book centers on the vacation home Froggy Cottage and its visitors. While the house and cast of characters living in this small mountain town remain the same, each episode will feature a different set of vacationing guests.

5. Kitchen Confidential

   2005 · Comedy, Food · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Celebrity chef Jack Bourdain, currently making pizzas at a chain restaurant, is offered an opportunity to become head chef of Nolita, a hip New York City restaurant. Pino, the owner of the establishment, has 300 reservations on the bookS and no food, crew or chef. He gives Jack the job and 48 hours to get it done. Jack raids other kitchens, bringing in an all-star team of chefs from his past. When a food critic Jack met during his wild days comes to Nolita, things have a horrible way of going wrong. Chaos ensues, but there is hope - the food critic gives Nolita a rave review on the "Exile on Main Street".

6. House of Lies

   2012 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile.

   Charming, fast talking Marty Kaan and his crack team of management consultants know how to play the corporate game better than anyone, by using every dirty trick in the book to woo powerful CEOs and close huge deals. In the board rooms, barrooms, and bedrooms of the power elite, corruption is business as usual and everyone's out for themselves first. Nothing is sacred in this scathing, irreverent satire of corporate America today.

7. Little Britain USA

   2008 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem, also on HBO.

   Adaptation of the British sketch-comedy series, featuring some characters from the original, such as hospital receptionist Carol Beer and Prime Minister Sebastian Love, and new ones in the U.S., including astronaut Bing Gordyn and a foul-mouthed little girl named Ellie-Grace.

8. Togetherness

   2015 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem, also on HBO.

   Brett and Michelle are struggling to rekindle the spark in their relationship, which has puttered out from the stresses of marriage and children. When Brett's friend Alex and Michelle's sister, Tina, move in with them, the foursome engage in a tragically comedic struggle to follow their personal dreams, while still remaining good friends, siblings and spouses to each other.On March 25, 2016, it was announced that Togetherness would not be renewed for a third season.

9. Nathan Barley

   2005 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Nathan Barley is 26. He is a webmaster, guerrilla filmmaker, screenwriter, DJ and in his own words, a "self-facilitating media node". He is convinced he is the epitome of urban cool and therefore secretly terrified he might not be, which is why he reads Sugar Ape Magazine - his bible of cool. Dan Ashcroft writes searing columns for Sugar Ape. He's considered astonishingly cool, but only by those he despises. He is surrounded by idiots and practically worshipped by Nathan (whom he considers to be their king). He is 34. Why has he failed to move on? Claire Ashcroft, 27, is Dan's sister. Like Dan she despises "cool". Unlike Nathan she despises novelty, trash, irony and gadgets. She is furious that no one will fund her hard-hitting documentary about a choir of reformed junkies.

10. Silicon Valley

    2014 · Comedy · ended

    Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.4), also on HBO.

    In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. From Mike Judge comes this satire about a programmer whose game-changing algorithm becomes the subject of a valley-wide bidding war.