How to With John Wilson

Name: How to With John Wilson
Genre: Comedy, Documentary
Released: October 23, 2020
Rating: 90

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HBO | Release Date: October 23, 2020

Summary: The comedic documentary filmed in New York City features commentary and advice on such topics like small talk, scaffolding, memory, check splitting, cooking risotto, and furniture coverings.

Genre(s): Comedy, Documentary

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The Guardian Jack Seale

Mar 11, 2024

Season 3 Review: This glorious anomaly of a programme. Weird, wonderful humanity is everywhere Wilson goes. Read full review

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Collider Ross Bonaime

Nov 29, 2021

Season 2 Review: How To with John Wilson is an absolute gem, an exhilarating and side-splitting series that could even change the way you look at the world. Read full review

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Manuel Betancourt

Jul 24, 2023

Season 3 Review: Equally as eager to make a quick visual gag as he is to muse on why and how we crave community in a seemingly fragmented world, Wilson is a master at work all throughout this farewell season. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Oct 22, 2020

Season 1 Review: The first season comes together in astonishing and unexpectedly beautiful fashion in the last of six episodes — a piece of narrative unification and compassion that I hadn't previously thought I wanted, much less needed. The finale is a half-hour of television that turns How To with John Wilson from a drolly esoteric curiosity into a special document. Read full review

Daniel D'Addario

Nov 19, 2021

Season 2 Review: While each episode begins with a simple and pragmatic question — how does one, say, safely dispose of batteries? — it ends having transcended and morphed the question into an inquiry into grander things. ... We get to know the man behind the camera more this season, and come to understand not merely his personality — conveyed through Wilson’s excellent vocal performance as charmingly off-kilter, as well as open in a way that invites openness from his subjects — but his ambition and his fear. Read full review

Joel Keller

Jul 28, 2023

Season 3 Review: How To With John Wilson is a show that’s perfect for streaming when you’re in the mood for something with a little weirdness, a little optimism, and a lot of funny. Read full review

The Playlist Valerie Ettenhofer

Jul 24, 2023

Season 3 Review: “How To With John Wilson” Season 3 isn’t a step down for the series so much as a step sideways. The first two seasons took place just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit and in the wake of it, respectively, while Season 3 shows a world that has opened up for better and worse. Read full review

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brockcheese

Oct 28, 2020

A show so simple it seems impossible not to be charmed. With just a single camera, John Wilson captures some of the unique elements of being human just by exploring the environment around him.

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Scraper

Jul 30, 2023

With a random click one night I stumbled across this show that I can't get enough of. John Wilson is funnier and more thoughtful than he lets on. And I love the objective take of all walks of life he encounters - from CEO to down-and-outter, everyone is treated with the same humility. It's aWith a random click one night I stumbled across this show that I can't get enough of. John Wilson is funnier and more thoughtful than he lets on. And I love the objective take of all walks of life he encounters - from CEO to down-and-outter, everyone is treated with the same humility. It's a unique, interesting and stripped-down answer to this increasingly more complicated medium.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 3

93
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: July 28, 2023
- No episode information is currently available for this season
Season 2

92
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: November 26, 2021
Season 1

84
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: October 23, 2020