[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.
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I have to say, this season has been more like Trump's Week Tonight than Last Week Tonight. If you're running Trump-related segments every week, it gets a little old. There's enough politics in the mainstream news, isn't there? I know the show's writers could find other things for John to talk about. How do I know? They consistently did so before Trump announced his presidential campaign. The other stuff that happens every week hasn't stopped happening—they've just stopped putting it in the scripts.