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Hello New York. Among your millions of inhabitants there is a red-haired guy glued to a camera, with a muppet voice and a most disconcerting purpose: to capture life through the strangest objects and characters that populate your streets and buildings. I'll give you a hint: he wears glasses, makes people laugh, and is in dire need of therapy. No, it's not

Woody Allen,

but almost. Because

John Wilson could be considered one of his more direct successors,

although his is closer to the documentary video-essay than to the high-flying comedy. He is also not interested in shooting the Brooklyn Bridge at sunset, but rather the dollar store on the corner. In his vision of the Big Apple, there are dead rats and vomit on the sidewalk, yet he is as endearing as his landlady.

He is responsible for

How to with John Wilson

, one of the most unclassifiable and dazzling audiovisual products that currently crowd the saturated interfaces of

streaming

platforms

. If what abounds is more of the same, here is a really original and fascinating vein. With his second season just released on HBO Max, Wilson once again demonstrates what was already sensed in the first installment of six episodes: his is top-quality material, a collage that is both absurd comedy and existential tutorial for

dummies

. And in this living,

we are all

dummies

.

Despite the chapter titles, John Wilson doesn't teach you how to invest in the real estate market, how to appreciate wine, or how to find a parking space. They are just anchors or starting points that serve as a thin guiding thread for each episode, which are then carried away by the strangeness of the everyday.

His method involves recording eight hours of material a day, seven days a week, in

addition to the material provided by four units of cameramen at his command who travel the less touristy corners of the city in search of images as shocking as that of a guy in a car sucking a girl's toes in broad daylight.

Everyone has a story behind them and the urban wildlife of Queens or the Bronx could not be less: a haunting ventriloquist, a car-shaped coffin maker, an expired military food collector, the wacky billionaire behind the energy drink Bang Energy ... None would be part of the typical television show or series, but they are all rabidly televised, each in their own way. In the interviews (and in the silences before and after Wilson's probing questions) there are moments at the exact point between awkwardness, ridicule and tenderness.

For his ubiquitous camera and his trained voyeur eye, people are as important as objects. A playful fire hydrant, scaffolding reproduced on New York sidewalks or an overly suggestive mannequin can create a stark contrast between what the viewer sees and what Wilson says, digging into the originality of its format until finding pure gold. .

In this second season, in addition to tutorials on what to do with dead batteries or the best methods to remember dreams, Wilson delves further into his own biography to talk about how he made a short a day as a child or the absolute disaster that it was his first amateur film,

Jingle Berry.

But the strangest and most fascinating story of all is that of his passage through a group that sang a cappella and how his path crossed that of

Keith Raniere, leader of the Nxivm sect,

sentenced last year to 120 years in prison for association crime, conspiracy, sex trafficking and possession of child pornography.

The comedy of life also has its villains.

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