John Wilson says his fears that How To Season 2 would be difficult to make ended up being unfounded

The Ringer

Season 1 of How To with John Wilson was like a perfect debut album with its painstaking curation of extraordinary vignettes of city life. So Wilson admits the prospect of doing a second season intimidated him. But then he realized that he was more prepared to do it than he’d thought. “I was worried that we wouldn’t be able to capture as much lightning in a bottle because so much of it comes down to pure chance,” Wilson tells The Ringer. “But it just wasn’t the case. I feel like the experiment continues to work in a weird way. The more you try and the more boots you have on the ground, the better your chance is of capturing some once-in-a-lifetime stuff.” In fact, he now views Season 1 as just the beginning. “I wanted people to get familiar with me, maybe see if they were interested in anything I had to say or my story,” he says. “It’s like when you meet a new friend. You tell them little by little, and you eventually get to the really mortifying stuff.”