[7.0/10] Solid episode. The opening rundown of the week's news was pretty standard stuff that all the usual suspects were doing. There's plenty of hay to be made from Spicer's slips of the tongue or Trump mentioning his resort's cake or messing up the name of the country he just bombed, but Oliver didn't bring anything particularly new or insightful to it. There's something frightening, as he pointed out, about how quickly Trump changes his mind about major things, some of which he campaigned on, but that's not a new observation. And the "Now This" segment about local newscaster doing egg puns was fine but unspectacular to boot.
The main story, on the French elections, was informative, and had some good humor in it. I don't know enough about the topic to judge the accuracy or comprehensiveness of the segment, but it was a nice entree for someone who knows little about the election. The whole appealing to French superiority like an old art film shtick was kind of hacky, but as I've said here before, the little cutesy end segments on LWT don't always do it for me.
Overall, perfectly fine episode, but nothing to write home about.
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[7.0/10] Solid episode. The opening rundown of the week's news was pretty standard stuff that all the usual suspects were doing. There's plenty of hay to be made from Spicer's slips of the tongue or Trump mentioning his resort's cake or messing up the name of the country he just bombed, but Oliver didn't bring anything particularly new or insightful to it. There's something frightening, as he pointed out, about how quickly Trump changes his mind about major things, some of which he campaigned on, but that's not a new observation. And the "Now This" segment about local newscaster doing egg puns was fine but unspectacular to boot.
The main story, on the French elections, was informative, and had some good humor in it. I don't know enough about the topic to judge the accuracy or comprehensiveness of the segment, but it was a nice entree for someone who knows little about the election. The whole appealing to French superiority like an old art film shtick was kind of hacky, but as I've said here before, the little cutesy end segments on LWT don't always do it for me.
Overall, perfectly fine episode, but nothing to write home about.