How To Make it in America is the best new show on television – hands down. The show is a love child of the rock star ambition of Entourage and the jaded and slightly clueless New Yorkers of Bored to Death, blessed by God Father Mark Wahlberg. As outrageous as these characters are, there’s more humility to them than the “true Hollywood story” of Vince Chase.

Unlike Entourage, How to Make it is realistic in the sense that not every girl in the show is throwing herself at Ben, unlike the more promiscuous pick of them on Entourage who seem to throw themselves at Vince, E and even Turtle. I mean, really? The characters in How To Make it have trouble getting into Avenue, just like the rest of us (although we’d never pay 3K for the privilege). Just like them, we grab coffee with friends in and around China Town, ride the subway over Manhattan bridge, live in Brooklyn and play in Manhattan, know a couple of d-bag wall street guys who don’t mean any harm, but just can’t help themselves and go to Veselka at 3am.

Life is hard in NYC, they don’t say “if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere” for nothing. How To Make it is the city’s essence captured for the rest of the world to taste. We welcome this true New Yorker (the show, and the characters too I suppose) into our lives with open arms.

Photos courtesy of HBO.com.