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- 2020
- TV-MA
- HBO
- 2020
- TV-MA
- HBO
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.
- 2020
- TV-MA
- HBO
- 2020
- TV-MA
- HBO
How to With John Wilson
3 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: Oct 23, 2020
7.9
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.
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Metascore
Universal acclaim
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Universal acclaim
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
89
100% Positive
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
It’s like a nice light dessert after all the heavy fare the network offers. We love seeing and hearing from the intensely uncomfortable Wilson, and marvel at how his filmmaking instincts take him in very strange and interesting directions.
“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.
User Score
Generally favorable
Based on 50 User Ratings
7.9
86% Positive
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User Score
Generally favorable
Based on 50 User Ratings
7.9
86% Positive
43 Ratings
43 Ratings
2% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
12% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
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Production Company:
- Blow Out Productions
- John's Movies
Initial Release Date: Oct 23, 2020
Number of seasons: 3 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
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Awards
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
Critics' Choice Real TV Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Gotham Awards
• 1 Nomination
