The HBO show follows a New York City resident looking for advice on ordinary subjects. Nothing turns out the way you would expect.
As corporate interests increasingly dictate the art we consume, “How To” takes a risk by focusing on the humdrum of everyday life. And yet it endured for three seasons, a run that now exists amid the flashier offerings of the HBO streaming library as proof that we need not always escape to the fantastical. Sometimes, the world around us can provide the reprieve we seek.
The show follows the curiosity of Wilson, a New York City resident looking for advice on ordinary subjects such as improving your memory or watching a sports game. Nothing turns out the way you would expect. The first journey leads him to a conference in Idaho on the Mandela effect. The second, which begins at a baseball stadium, ends at a Pennsylvania convention for vacuum cleaner collectors.
This might require extra effort in New York, a city also known for its pervasive trash stench. But “How To” understands that you can catch a whiff of both smells at the same time. During Wilson’s narration, which carries viewers from one interview to the next, the show splices together different scenes of city life. A shot of two business owners joining forces to bleach a urine-drenched sidewalk is somehow … heartwarming? Look at what we can accomplish together.
But every guy is just some guy, as an old friend of mine once reminded me. What does it mean for Wilson to frame himself as an everyman? By the third season, he turns his gaze on himself, noting that some viewers have sought proof that he concocted some of the outlandish scenarios. Even late night host Jimmy Kimmel couldn’t believe Wilson,, could have actually been invited to a Mandela effect conference by a stranger he met at the grocery store.
The series builds to these hefty questions, asked of the fake broken toilet and, later on, a car set aflame. The finale reckons with the very notion of what it means to be alive . Like each individual episode, “How To” takes a long, winding path to highlight a simple truth: We are all just bumbling around until our eventual deaths. But it’s nice to know we can find — or create — meaning along the way.
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