´Sad sad,..., used to love this show, frontal, honest, and fun... know... its just bashing on trump and protection the crock hillary... every week the same thing,..., i never tought this guy would become so biased ! very disapointed... stupid fool.
The Emmy thing was amazing. I loved it.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2016-10-25T01:09:59Z
6.9/10. Another solid episode. Frankly, I'll be happy when we as a culture can hopefully move on from Trump, but Oliver still manages to juice some humor out of that orange in a hairpiece. While the Emmy bet was what grabbed headlines, my favorite part of the opening segment was the oddly fitting comparison between Trump and the Catholic Church. On top of that, the ridiculousness of the "And Now This" segment on Chris Matthews's favorite movie being Love Actually was the kind of amusing quirk that LWT exposes well.
The main segment on opioids was good not great. It was informative, and there were some nice moments, but it felt like one of those issues that's just a little too expansive for Oliver to be able to cover well in fifteen minutes, and it hewed a little too close to the usual Last Week Tonight formula in some ways, with the old promotional video, the human interest story gone bad, etc. Even Oliver's character asides (like the Oprah-phobia bit) seemed a little more forced than usual. It's an interesting issue, and the show had some notable things to say about it, but it didn't feel as incisive as the show can get at its best.
The final "How Did This Guy Get Elected?" segment was funny (especially the gags about his bizarre pronunciation of the word "racism," but frankly I was expecting the guy to have said a lot worse. Maybe it's just living in the era of Trump that does it.
Overall, not the show's finest hour, but still decent.