How to with John Wilson is HBO's most bizarre TV show — and might just change how you view the world

Don't ask John Wilson to sell you on his own show. "I'm really bad at pitching: I make it sound really boring, and I think that's a struggle that people who watch the show might have, too." Something like a 2020s update on the flâneur — an artist who wanders the streets to find inspiration from overlooked sights — Wilson's show takes what others might see as visual detritus to reveal how confounding daily life can be, at a time where it can be tempting to drown out daily noise. "People have approached me and told me that it's changed the way that they see the world, which is extremely flattering, because that's what a lot of the best art does," says Wilson. "I feel like it's a part of me," Wilson says of his camera, "but it is something I can put down."