John Wilson Talks ‘Existential Themes,’ Nathan Fielder and the Final Season of ‘How To’
28.07.2023 - 21:43
/ variety.com
Sophia Scorziello editor John Wilson was filming the scene on Park Avenue with his handheld Sony camcorder when I met him in midtown for coffee. He was sporting a “Jeopardy” T-shirt, and I thought of how the late game show host Alex Trebek might have loved Wilson’s question and answer style of television.
For over a decade, Wilson has been traveling around the boroughs answering the questions every New Yorker has asked themselves at least once. It began with offbeat short films entitled “How to Clean a Cast Iron Pan,” “How to Live With Bed Bugs” and “How to Remain Single,”before rebranding itself into the acclaimed Nathan Fielder-executive produced HBO docu-comedy series “How to With John Wilson.” In the show’s third and final season, premiering on HBO and Max on July 28, Wilson turns “How To” into something a bit more personal, reflecting on the making of the show, and tackling some pretty heavy topics like how to like what you see in the mirror and how to be honest with yourself.
The aforementioned questions might not have made it as titles to any episodes of Season 3, but their spirit is garishly present. “I didn’t fully plan to get so personal this season, but it was kind of inevitable,” Wilson says.
“As I get deeper into these stories with these real people, I then need to go deeper internally.” “And sometimes that means going much deeper into the memoir material,” he adds. “A lot of people in my life hear things about me for the first time through the show, which is kind of, like, a strange way to confess or reveal something.
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