How to describe How to With John Wilson? The titular documentarian had a go himself, way back in a 2021 episode of the show: “It’s kind of like, uh, memoir … essay … um. It takes place in New York.”
Wilson, armed only with a handheld camera and his interpersonal awkwardness, roams his home city capturing offbeat, hilarious or disturbing images of the urban everyday, chatting with New York’s oddest people and adding incidents from his own eccentric existence. Then, with a wise skill belied by all the ums, ers and ahems he refuses to edit out of his narration, Wilson knits all of the above into half-hour meditations on the loneliness and silliness of modern life.
