How To with John Wilson - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
How To Make Small Talk
John Wilson reflects on the delicate balancing act of making - and safely redirecting - casual conversation, highlighting the rewards and risks of small talk.
How To Put Up Scaffolding
John Wilson offers a unique history of New York's hideous yet sprawling network of overhead "protection," otherwise known as scaffolding - and contemplates what it might take to reduce its nearly 300-mile eyesore presently overtaking the city.
How To Improve Your Memory
John Wilson taps into his "Memory Palace" for an unforgettable exploration into our ability - or inability - to remember things.
How To Cover Your Furniture
While trying to live peacefully with his furniture destroying cat, John Wilson explores the challenges of keeping an object in pristine condition
How To Split the Check
John Wilson attempts to make sense of the intricacies - and fairness practices - behind the complex art of splitting the check.
How To Cook the Perfect Risotto
To thank his elderly landlord for all the times she has cooked and cleaned for him, John attempts to make her favorite dish.
Recently Updated Shows
Providence
Providence tells the story of 12-year-old Jon Bronson, who, ten years ago, vanished, along with five of his classmates. Reappearing as a grown man with no recollection of his adolescence, he attempts to re-enter life and to connect with his childhood crush, Chloe Sayers, who never lost hope that Jon was out there and would one day return. But unbeknownst to him, his time away has granted him — and the others that vanished — horrific supernatural abilities. Now Jon's own body won't allow him to get physically close to the love of his life. Jon must figure out what was done to him and the others — and why.
The Sparrow
In the near future, humans on Earth receive their first evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life when a radio telescope picks up a strange signal, sounding like exquisite music, from a distant planet that will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible expedition, the Jesuit leadership quietly organizes an eight-person scientific mission of its own, comprised of a variety of disciplines and backgrounds. What they find is a world so far beyond comprehension that it will lead them to challenge the very notions of humanity and faith itself.
The Walking Dead: Dead City
The Walking Dead: Dead City envisions the popular Maggie and Negan characters travelling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.
