[7.3/10] Good episode. There's only so many ways to come at Trump's weekly insanity, but the fanfare around the "We got him" button was an amusing way to do it this week. Guy Fieri's "Proverbs of Flavortown" interstitial was a nice instance of amusement by repetition.
The main story, on forensic evidence at trials, was interesting. I'll trot out my frequent criticism -- this felt like too big a thing for Oliver to tackle in fifteen minutes. He raises some good points, but there's a lot of complexities and context that was sacrificed in the name of fitting everything into digestible chunks. And while I'm as ready to laugh at CSI shows and their imitators as anyone, the show's used the "let's make our points via a cop show parody" bit several times, and went a hair too far with some of the material.
Overall, still some good points raised and some good laughs.
Shout by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2017-10-03T01:47:58Z
[7.3/10] Good episode. There's only so many ways to come at Trump's weekly insanity, but the fanfare around the "We got him" button was an amusing way to do it this week. Guy Fieri's "Proverbs of Flavortown" interstitial was a nice instance of amusement by repetition.
The main story, on forensic evidence at trials, was interesting. I'll trot out my frequent criticism -- this felt like too big a thing for Oliver to tackle in fifteen minutes. He raises some good points, but there's a lot of complexities and context that was sacrificed in the name of fitting everything into digestible chunks. And while I'm as ready to laugh at CSI shows and their imitators as anyone, the show's used the "let's make our points via a cop show parody" bit several times, and went a hair too far with some of the material.
Overall, still some good points raised and some good laughs.