How to With John Wilson

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.

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.

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.

Once again, season 3 finds humor in unexpected places, and the New York City footage that accompanies Wilson’s narrations are absurd, visceral, and wonderful.

Part helpful guide, part sociological survey, and part intimate biography, it’s at once confessional and universal, as well as slyly profound.

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.

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.