one of my favorite parts was the "2 guys...3 guys....4 guys...two three four" bit, mostly because that's a joke you'd never see on any other show
i was really hoping it was going to somehow lead up to "three cousins, a deli slicer, and a buncha bagels" in coney island
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DBt5PAeWsAAMYbl.jpg
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-television/hbos-how-to-with-john-wilson-captures-the-weird-wondrous-new-york-city-thats-never-on-tv
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, 26 November 2020 01:43 (three years ago) link
a reffle
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 November 2020 16:14 (three years ago) link
one of the reasons this couldn't work in the UK (most places in the west?) is that you have to get a waiver signed to broadcast someone's image on TV or at least you mostly do. I do find myself wondering about the logistics/legality and even the morality of some of the shots playing alongside the narration. I know I'd feel pretty humiliated and annoyed if I was, for example, the clearly exasperated guy in the baseball cap giving his friends the side-eye at the restaurant table while John's talking about resentments w/r/t splitting the bill.
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Friday, 27 November 2020 23:43 (three years ago) link
I think all those people signed releases! Check that interview link upthread.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 November 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link
really? I find that almost impossible to believe. I'll check the interview out, thanks.
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Friday, 27 November 2020 23:51 (three years ago) link
The How to Split the Bill episode makes me think about ILX a lot (and not just the tipping/splitting threads)
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Friday, 27 November 2020 23:54 (three years ago) link
If I’m shooting people on the street doing something funny, either I or a field producer will go up to that person and tell them they were in a shot for a documentary show about New York, then we get a release. Pretty much everyone says OK, which was surprising to me—people respond surprisingly well to the news they’ve been filmed as long as you level with them and tell them exactly what the show is, like “Oh, I’m making an episode about small talk and you guys were having small talk on the street.” It’s innocuous when you tell them what it is, because people’s imaginations can run wild when you tell them they’ve been filmed. You have to put them at ease and let them know exactly what context you’re planning on putting it in. I’m confident that it’s to serve a larger, weird joke, usually on myself.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 November 2020 00:16 (three years ago) link
Feeling a lot of feelings after that finale but mostly just thinking about that slide whistle and how I really hope he gets another season
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Saturday, 28 November 2020 07:03 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCNsx_NyNOU
― cajunsunday, Saturday, 28 November 2020 07:59 (three years ago) link
finale was one of the best episodes of television I've ever seen, what a masterful season
― Clay, Saturday, 28 November 2020 12:29 (three years ago) link
otm - i love how just as it was getting crushingly heavy at the end, he pulled it all back with the perfectly stupid "SHRIMP NIBBLERS ARE BACK" shot
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Saturday, 28 November 2020 12:41 (three years ago) link
omfg the finale
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 November 2020 16:01 (three years ago) link
this is easily my favorite show of the year along with aew dynamite
protect john wilson's landlord at all costs
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 November 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
that Anatomy Of A Scene video is brilliant
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 28 November 2020 23:15 (three years ago) link
Just finished the final ep. Love this show so much.Really curious as to how long he was filming and then how long it took to comb through it all and stitch everything together. Know we got a glimpse of his daily cataloguing, but I assume there was some more sophisticated indexing going on there? Seems like a lot of patience, creativity, and work behind it any which way.
― circa1916, Sunday, 29 November 2020 00:38 (three years ago) link
this is pretty good but nowhere near Joe Pera imo
― flopson, Sunday, 29 November 2020 01:07 (three years ago) link
Haven’t seen anything from Joe Pera to my knowledge but will rectify shortly
― circa1916, Sunday, 29 November 2020 01:18 (three years ago) link
Wilson hits me intellectually and Pera hits me emotionally. Though to be fair, that last ep DID hit me emotionally. Really nailed what the early days of COVID in the city were like.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 29 November 2020 01:18 (three years ago) link
Enjoyed the Mama thread in the last one.“She’s the only person in my life that I never... vape around.”
― circa1916, Sunday, 29 November 2020 01:30 (three years ago) link
this show is funny, but - and this is gonna sound pretentious and hyperbolic but I mean it - it's in a way that transcends comedy. or I guess more accurately, it's something peripheral to comedy. this dude is a street photographer first and foremost. contemporary street photographers, particularly the ones in Brooklyn but also all the ones through NYC or anywhere where this sort of documentation is successful on the instagrams and such, are always on the lookout for little visual jokes, things that are just naturally intrinsically funny in this universal zen way where captions can only weigh them down. so captions are foregone here in lieu of the narration which is the more traditional application of "comedy" in this show, and it's exactly what you'd expect of these Brooklyn-style instagram-perfect comedy-moment hunters. the narration adds this conscious layer of
eh forget it, I don't know where I'm going this with this. I just really like this show and it's exactly what I was hoping it'd be (post-comedy)
― the burrito that defined a generation, Sunday, 29 November 2020 01:35 (three years ago) link
my brother-in-law and I were texting about it and he mentioned that my seven-year-old nephew had seen it and had commented "I don't understand it, but I like it too."
― the burrito that defined a generation, Sunday, 29 November 2020 01:37 (three years ago) link
It’s a lot of things, yeah, and comedy is only one of the pillars.This sounds dumb, but personally a lot of it reminded me of a time I took mushrooms and just walked around my city one Saturday afternoon. Hyper attuned to everything and things you’d typically filter out walking down the street became significant, absurd, and alien.
― circa1916, Sunday, 29 November 2020 01:54 (three years ago) link
if you've ever spent several years roaming your city trying to be a street photographer doing pretty much exactly this same thing, wasting hour upon hour trying to find the best of the best so as to not waste anyone's time with your product, including all the requisite laborsome editing and all the mindfuckery that meta-processing entails, you too would feel like you were having yet another one of these mushroom-style trips, another rake of the filter
― the burrito that defined a generation, Sunday, 29 November 2020 02:02 (three years ago) link
Hahah. Well... happy to be a tourist in that department and appreciative of those who put in the work and do it well so I can feel those things on my couch.
― circa1916, Sunday, 29 November 2020 02:15 (three years ago) link
word! that's how I'm feeling this show too. it's v v good
― the burrito that defined a generation, Sunday, 29 November 2020 02:43 (three years ago) link
Yeah my wife digs this show a lot but I think she’s only laughed once per episode
― frogbs, Sunday, 29 November 2020 02:47 (three years ago) link
your wife sounds pretty hot
― the burrito that defined a generation, Sunday, 29 November 2020 02:51 (three years ago) link
that Nathan Fielder anatomy video seems exactly like the kind of thing this show is a welcome antidote to. Levels of Irony accepted (sadly, not gladly) but, really, why would you make that film? I realise it's to make more people watch HTwJW but it seems to work against it in a very bad way.
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Sunday, 29 November 2020 02:53 (three years ago) link
just kidding dude, that's a joke like how Nathan did that whole nubile young men staying at his house bouncing on his trampoline creating content for his business joke thing in that cajunsunday posted. Nathan doesn't want to violate our tweens and I'm not interested in your wife
― the burrito that defined a generation, Sunday, 29 November 2020 02:54 (three years ago) link
^ xpost btw
why not
― frogbs, Sunday, 29 November 2020 03:06 (three years ago) link
Thought the Nathan anatomy video was pretty good and kinda the only way I could see that dude making a “promotional video”.
― circa1916, Sunday, 29 November 2020 03:24 (three years ago) link
sir, if you'd like to take this conversation about your wife offline, just send me a webmail, we'll get it going I promise you
― the burrito that defined a generation, Sunday, 29 November 2020 03:26 (three years ago) link
fuck! that was an xpost btw goddangit
― the burrito that defined a generation, Sunday, 29 November 2020 03:27 (three years ago) link
can we keep these other people out of the john wilson thread who is actually good please
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 29 November 2020 10:06 (three years ago) link
https://www.vulture.com/article/how-to-with-john-wilson-finale-interview.html
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 03:57 (three years ago) link
How is your landlord doing?She’s good! I don’t know if I can tell you exactly what she’s doing because it might be a spoiler for season two. I haven’t been greenlit or anything yet, but just in case.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 04:00 (three years ago) link
yeah that was amazing
finale was great. got me super emotional too
― frogbs, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
nathan is gonna look 55 in his early thirties
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
He's 37
― Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
my point exactlyyou absolutely have to watch that video btw
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
yeah he doesn't look prematurely old he just doesn't die his hair the way everyone else in the biz does
― frogbs, Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
wow this vid takes a pretty weird turn doesn't it
― frogbs, Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:47 (three years ago) link
you gotta diversify
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
criterion release of john wilson when
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
"I feel like the other guys don't like me as much as you do" was a little too on the nose
― frogbs, Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
Mama update https://www.instagram.com/p/CIgU4hSjCX2/
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 7 December 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link