| HBO | Season Premiere 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
Season 1 Episodes
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IndieWire
Oct 23, 2020
“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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Oct 22, 2020
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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Jan 14, 2021
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
Oct 22, 2020
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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Dec 18, 2020
Dec 25, 2021
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Oct 28, 2020
This show is one the most real feeling shows I have ever seen. John Wilson awkwardly stumbles from encounter to encounter with the seeming purpose of understanding the totality of what it means to be human.
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Sep 2, 2023
This is just DUMB, they'll put anything on TV. Not funny, interesting, or worth watching.
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Season 3
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Air Date: July 28, 2023
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Season 2
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Air Date: November 26, 2021
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Season 1
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Air Date: October 23, 2020
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