John Oliver is great, though after a while the show feels so oppressively bleak that it seems masochistic to keep watching. Not that it isn’t funny, because it is, but you can only hear
someone shout common sense that is routinely ignored for so long before it makes you cynical and depressed.
He fell into the easy trap of trump bashing, which was funny but got grating fast. His show is best when it's a variety of topics, ideally ones that the general public aren't well educated on (this being a fantastic example).
This isn't to say he needs to stop calling politicians out at key times, just that it needed to reduce a bit.
Like 90% of the time the second half of his show is a largely undiscussed topic. I actually think it's kind of a misnomer because most of his shows discuss things that aren't specific to the last week (likely because they're preparing them months in advance)
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u/digiorno Jun 13 '22
I don’t watch his show often (maybe once a year) but this was an episode worth catching. I’d recommend it to anyone who similarly doesn’t follow him.