How To Make It In USA is the webseries you don’t realize you’re neglecting

With the three-headed cable-Netflix-Hulu hydra sucking up most of our viewing time, independent web series often get the short shrift. Case in point: the brilliant nine-episode (and counting, we hope) How To Make It In USA, written and performed by Joe Pera (MTV’s Pancake Breakfast Critic) and Late Night With Seth Meyers scribe Conner O’Malley. The series, about a shy, young comic (Pera) placing his career in the hands of the world’s most boorish manager, debuted just over a year ago. And since then, most episodes have ratcheted up a paltry 6,000 views. Bad job, internet. Each installment of How To Make It In USA serves as a comedic two-hander, with Max Gold (O’Malley) culling the lion’s share of the dialogue. When not hurling abuses at his client, he’s punching up his stand-up set (“We need to get you wearing a hat”) and excitedly describing random things he’s just Googled. (“Have you seen this? Pod races? Star Wars: Episode I? Whoa!”)