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I love a binge! Meagan Fahy’s best line in White Lotus Season 2. Aubrey Plaza’s character Harper, gives her the most sarcastic laugh, if you can even call it that, on the planet. You know what? Fuck Harper! A binge is fucking awesome. But a lot of factors need to come together. First of all, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Ozark and Stranger Things are not bingeable shows. There is a median to hit in between “The Bachelor” and “Schindler’s List”. Number 2: Work shouldn’t be dominating your life. Well unless you’re my wife who plays sudoku, surfs YouTube, watches a trashy show, along with performing with flying colors at work. That girl might be a great multitasker but this is going to be a disease in the near future. Lastly, the viewer should be able to maintain their sanity after the marathon. The price of the hangover should be worth the ecstasy of the moment. If you are lucky enough to walk away with a smile on your face, you have completed a successful binge. My recent binge was “How to Make it in America”.

This show is 16 years old but boy has it held up. It catches the urgency of New York while also glamorizing “hustle culture”. Poverty can still look kind of sexy when a spotlight is held on the effort regardless of the zeroes in the bank account. Lake Bell (Hot girl from “It’s Complicated”), Bryan Greenberg (“One Tree Hill” fame), and Victor Rasuk (I don’t even know where the hell he’s from) would be considered the pivotal leads as the story follows them, but Luiz Guzman completely elevates this series. Guzman plays Rene Calderon, a recently released mafioso who is also the uncle of Rasuk’s character. His post prison entrepreneurial ventures are absolutely hilarious along with his antics to bully the leads while maintaining a tinge of comedy during the delivery of every dialogue.

The chemistry between Greenberg and Rasuk is so dynamite that it makes me wish that I had a partner in crime for my current writing venture. Frankly, there isn’t much to say about Lake Bell. She joins the cast of inevitable hot women who are not backed by a strong storyline and is an auxiliary component to the main matter at hand. Kid Cudi inexplicably plays a drug dealer and Eddie Kay Thomas, for once plays an endearing role that does not involve fucking Stifler’s mom; but still a bit annoying. Martha Plimpton absolutely dominates whatever little screen presence she has akin to Lou Williams with the Clippers.

Is this show pristine? No. That’s not the point. Not one episode crosses 30 minutes. Picture the first time watching “Friends”. You sat down and saw Rachel come into the coffee shop with a wedding dress on, and by the time you blinked Rachel and Ross are making out passionately while Julie is kicked out of the show as most nonwhite characters are back in the day. That is exactly what “How to Make it in America” will do for you. Allocate some time on a Saturday. Order a 12 pack or get a fifth of jack. Keep Uber Eats ready for some Little Caesers. But if you feel like shit, don’t come back crying to me.