How To with John Wilson (HBO, 2020-23) is a documentary series covering topics ranging from finding a public restroom, to investing in real estate, to learning how to be spontaneous. Each episode is filmed from John’s first-person perspective, mixing Louis Theroux-esque interviews with voyeuristic clips of humorous, idiosyncratic things and people found around New York’s streets; all narrated by John Wilson’s stuttery, monotone, nasal voice.

How To Watch Birds (HBO, 2023) is the fifth episode of the third and final season, and starts with John deciding to spend more time outside and investigate bird watching, and ends up with him meeting and hanging out with a Titanic conspiracy theorist; while in the background the episode really talks about honesty, integrity, truth, and ethics of making a documentary.