9.5/10. Another great episode from LWT. I especially enjoyed the opening segment on the 2016 Election because it's a great example of the show's strengths. It's not just riffing on or poking fun at the news of the day (though it does that too), but rather it covers Trump citing unscientific online polls in entertaining fashion, covers his comments about the former Miss Universe in entertaining fashion, but then digs into old interviews in connects them, threading the needle by an online poll Trump (presumably) rejected about the subject of his comments concerning Miss Universe. These are well-thought out, unified segments, not just indiscriminate jabs.
I also appreciated the main segment on police accountability. It was an interesting way to look at the current cultural debate about police shootings, and as LWT does well, zero in on a small part of the issue with wide-ranging implications. I don't know enough about the topic to say whether it was appropriately even-handed in its presentation of the info, but it certainly raised some troubling issues (like "bad apple" officers being able to resign when there's trouble and just move to a different station) that were eye-opening to me.
And the final segment, following up on the Wells Fargo business was great, if only because the reveal that the corporate PSA actor from the internal Wells Fargo fraud video they were going to bring back turned out to be already working as a writer on their show, is a wonderful coincidence.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2016-10-04T16:52:29Z
9.5/10. Another great episode from LWT. I especially enjoyed the opening segment on the 2016 Election because it's a great example of the show's strengths. It's not just riffing on or poking fun at the news of the day (though it does that too), but rather it covers Trump citing unscientific online polls in entertaining fashion, covers his comments about the former Miss Universe in entertaining fashion, but then digs into old interviews in connects them, threading the needle by an online poll Trump (presumably) rejected about the subject of his comments concerning Miss Universe. These are well-thought out, unified segments, not just indiscriminate jabs.
I also appreciated the main segment on police accountability. It was an interesting way to look at the current cultural debate about police shootings, and as LWT does well, zero in on a small part of the issue with wide-ranging implications. I don't know enough about the topic to say whether it was appropriately even-handed in its presentation of the info, but it certainly raised some troubling issues (like "bad apple" officers being able to resign when there's trouble and just move to a different station) that were eye-opening to me.
And the final segment, following up on the Wells Fargo business was great, if only because the reveal that the corporate PSA actor from the internal Wells Fargo fraud video they were going to bring back turned out to be already working as a writer on their show, is a wonderful coincidence.
Overall, another great episode.