Pretty disappointing episode. Sometimes it's the more specious arguments for positions you agree with that are the most irksome. Yes, Trump University is a scam, but people thinking they were going to get to take a picture with Donald Trump has little, if anything, to do with that. It's nice that Oliver tied some bits from "the playbook" to Trump's presidential campaign, but really, Oliver should have just said, "we pretty much covered this in our segment on for profit universities, and this is all just as bad." The Trump stuff is all just so easy -- I'd rather see Oliver and the LWT staff tackling something more informative and less obvious, and leave the weekly Trump sideshow for the hackier monologue crowd.
And in the same vein, I'm very much on board with the ills of the debt buying industry, and it's nice that the show purchased a big chunk of medical debt and foregave it, but scary collector calls and individual sob or outrage stories don't really explain what's so pernicious about these practices. Too often, the segment devolved into "isn't this individual event awful?" without doing enough to tie to more widespread trends and issue. It's a worthy topic and cause, but this wasn't the best exploration of it.
Shout by kirenosslrakVIP 10BlockedParent2016-06-06T18:39:31Z
First 10 I've given either a episode, show or a movie! Brilliant!