How To with John Wilson

Mama update https://www.instagram.com/p/CIgU4hSjCX2/

I finally watched the first episode Saturday night, it was great. I don't know what I was expecting, it definitely wasn't what I got but I loved it. I really liked the serious turn at the MTV spring break.

Officially renewed!!!

:D

fuck yeah!!

how 2

2 how 2 to

how-whit, 2-whoo

super excited for this to become the global phenomenon we all know it to be.

Based on his description of his process I wonder if it's more challenging for him to make episodes now. Remember he said he will pull footage from archives spanning years. The non-masked pre-pandemic footage is going to stand out more going forward. From clip to clip everyone may be or may not be wearing masks so it could be disruptive ...or maybe not I don't know!

i feel like he can pull this off with the right resources and it's HBO so i imagine they'll support him. he could probably do this for ten years for a tenth of the cost of one episode of game of thrones.

lol much less than a tenth but yes your point stands

excellent interview on office hours today

could probably make entire episodes out of 2-3 year old footage really

Watched Joe Pera’s show for the first time today and it’s great. That said, dismissing How To as some weak mix of Fielder and Pera (as mentioned above) is some reaching, superficial bullshit. Faux naive narrator is really the extent of it?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/12/21/how-to-with-john-wilson-offers-a-martians-eye-view-of-homo-sapiens-habits

i can break down how the similarity runs deeper than faux naive narrator but depending on how far you are into joe pera it might have spoilers

e1 of jw (the ‘how to make friends’ one) is superficially a documentary made by a nerdy guy about social conventions, but once it gets going becomes transparently about his recent breakup and social anxiety

similarly, s1 of jp starts out superficially presenting itself as a public access style show depicting life in a small town in minessota, but as it’s gets going it’s clear that he each episode is a transparent reflection of joes psychological state and what’s going on in his love life, his strained friendships and relationships, career

i don’t like the jw show as much as many of you do, but it’s not a bad thing that they share this quality of ‘stretching a documentary medium away from its “subject“ and toward the psychology of the social awkward narrator’. it doesn’t make jons show derivative. and there’s obviously tonnes more going on in it than just this

obviously there are hints of this in Nathan for you too

i can't stand the pera show and i really like this one. not sure why. fwiw i think jw could actually make his narration good instead of obviously deliberately awkward and the show would be just as good (and by my lights, better)

all adult swim shows are pish is how I break it down to an extent

the second season of Joe Pera was my favourite TV thing this year :'-(

Joe Pera rules obv

interesting points flopson, I hadnt really considered the similarities in form like that.

the granddaddy of that mode afaik is sherman's march

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091943/

you're forgetting shoah

not too much accidentally personal whimsy in that one iirc

you gotta wait for the fifth hour

that's when the jokes start

not gonna lie, the "i don't want much, just want my foreskin back again" song is a jam

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2020 season is nominated in the 2020 ILX TV poll:

ILX's Best Television of 2020 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 29, 2021

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX6zlvA_m3Y

https://evgrieve.com/2021/02/about-that-rolled-up-carpet-in-crosswalk.html

also

https://believermag.com/logger/how-to-interview-john-wilson/

Disappointed we weren't nominated for an emmy today. Next year!

are you affiliated with the show in some way?

Yes! Sound mixer.

nice! it's the best!

Oh man, definitely deserved a nom. Great show.

S2 starts Nov. 26

some positivity in life

perfect timing, i just started rewatching S1, its been the perfect length of time where i mostly forgot the jokes and details by now. these are so, so rewatchable.

Wilson should write the show but not be the host

fuck yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05F2UpwZhWY

OMG that lady with the pigeons was just in Hoboken on Saturday doing that.

hell yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG1i-gALy18

beautiful

right man in the right time

Another way to watch this show is just to live in New York

Hard pass

tonight's episode was a fucking TRIP

Holy shit, yes it was. I did not see that wild ride coming.