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Critic Reviews
Jul 27, 2023
Season 3 Review:
There’s plenty of amazement in the final run of “How To With John Wilson,” including the jaw-dropping and poignant series finale (about which I will say nothing more). But just as remarkable are the sights that Wilson captures in ordinary spaces, simply by looking up, or down, where you and I would stare straight ahead. This is John Wilson’s gift: He can look into a toilet and show you the world.
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ColliderJul 24, 2023
Season 3 Review:
Season 3 finds Wilson honing his craft and managing to find even more remarkable truths and inventive ways to bring these concepts to reality than ever before. As the final credits roll on Wilson’s superb series, How to proves that it’s truly something special, a peculiar, unique, and always astounding experience unlike any other.
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Nov 23, 2021
Season 2 Review:
While the shift toward the personal means that invested viewers will take more from his latest set of lessons, the central appeal of the show is that anyone who’s ever felt apprehensive about existing in society can find a piece of themselves in Wilson’s take on the world.
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IndieWireOct 23, 2020
Season 1 Review:
“How To” is filled with the kind of unexpected surprises that lead to belly laughs rather than gasps. Out of context, some of the ways that these episode topics connect to wider-reaching metaphors would seem saccharine or forced. But in the hands of Wilson and co-writers Michael Koman and Alice Gregory, there’s an earned earnestness to how this all plays out. There’s a certain strain of comforting self-awareness as “How To” connects the dots to those heartfelt conclusions the only way it can.
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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.
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Jan 14, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The potential emotional revelations of "How To with John Wilson" pale in comparison to what it can teach viewers about what we probably used to take for granted when operating in public spaces. This series is built on some of the most meticulously captured B-roll I have ever seen in my life. ... Wilson crafts visual punchlines that elicit belly laughs and landscapes that will
make you ache for the days you could have been outside, actually noticing things.
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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.
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Sep 1, 2023
Season 3 Review:
Season 3 takes significant strides toward dismantling the layers Wilson has constructed between himself and his show. Friday’s episode, “How to Work Out,” is the first in a string of installments in which Wilson turns the camera to himself and begins regularly venturing outside the New York City boroughs he’s long explored. The result is Wilson’s most vulnerable and ambitious work yet.
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Oct 22, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Much of the show works because Wilson’s just so great at finding unexpected things, whether they’re surprising conversations with people, or unusual scenes happening on a typical New York street corner, or revelations about Wilson himself. He’s a master at the art of defamiliarizing, of taking the kinds of things that happen all the time and presenting them in a way that lets you see just how strange they are.
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The PlaylistJul 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.
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