La stagione 1 di Arli$$ è stata trasmessa su HBO da samedi 10 août 1996 a mercredi 16 octobre 1996. È composta da 11 episodi, il primo dei quali si chiama "A Man of Our Times" e l'ultimo "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of"..
Comic actor Robert Wuhl, who created and stars, plays Arliss Michaels, a sports super-agent driven by twin motivations of profit and idealism. Arliss is in the race to realize his clients' dreams of stupendous wealth, but he's just as likely to put his reputation (and big bucks) on the line to help a fading player claim his niche in history. As with HBO's The Larry Sanders Show, Arli$$ gets a lot of mileage out of verisimilitude.