a surreally sincere and often profane access to the characters' inner lives, and is the source of the show's most tender and funny moments. (For example, George's unvarnished and sexually explicit confessions of continuing love for his ex-wife from the first season.) The world of Bored to Death is a slightly pitched version of reality: hard-boiled New York City cops harbour SM fetishes, armed thugs quote Oscar Wilde, and writers for The New Yorker settle their differences in the boxing ring. As one might expect from an adaptation of a short story originally published by McSweeney's , the show can sometimes err towards the precious (especially with Jonathan's standalone storylines), but there are instances of sublime hilarity in each and every episode. Victor Rasuk and Luis Guzmn in How to Make It in America Bored to Death will be missed, but the loss of How to Make It in America -- well-cast, well-written, and full of heart and smarts -- is the more painful tragedy of the two. How to Make It in America tells the story of two longtime friends, Ben Epstein (Bryan Greenberg, One Tree Hill ) and Cam Calderon (Victor Rasuk, ER ), who launch a fashion line of vintage T-shirts and jeans to try to break free of their entropically degenerating lives. The main story arc of the series -- the struggles of Ben and Cam to make it in the fickle world of New York fashion -- is genuinely compelling, and as are the many