Critics Of "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - Season 3"
Salon.com
June 22, 2018
"Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" took on the election, but also put its staff's investigative skills to work to research several important stories on corporate greed and threats to public safety and health.
The beautifully calibrated, extremely articulate rage of the "Oliver" character supplies the kind of slashing, take-no-prisoners, false-equivalence-destroying commentary we needed this year.
Thank heavens for HBO's Last Week Tonight, John Oliver's satirical javelin, thrust deep into the flank of the political animal, which we get a day after the US.
There's not really anything else like it on television, even if the media has perhaps overstated the show's power to "eviscerate" or "destroy" its subjects.
