TV SERIES · 2020

How to with John Wilson

ComedyDocumentary28 min per episode

In New York City, filmmaker John Wilson sets out to answer ordinary questions like how to make small talk, split a check, or improve your memory. Each episode starts with a practical problem and then wanders through the city’s sidewalks, apartments, waiting rooms, and chance encounters, where strangers’ habits and anxieties keep pulling the subject in new directions. What begins as advice turns into a chain of observations about etiquette, obsession, loneliness, and the odd systems people build to get through daily life. Wilson’s deadpan narration holds the pieces together as the search for a simple how-to keeps uncovering something messier underneath.