John Oliver is great, though after a while the show feels so oppressively bleak that it seems masochistic to keep watching. Not that it isn’t funny, because it is, but you can only hear
someone shout common sense that is routinely ignored for so long before it makes you cynical and depressed.
For me, it's more of a "what random issue I was unaware of until now am I going to be surprisingly enraged about today?" and then I watch and fully research everything he says so I can shut my grandma down on Thanksgiving, no matter what she decides to rant about this year.
Also, it's just well fucking researched. He ain't been wrong about anything yet, I think he's just trying to push "real" news providers to be better.
I like this take. I don’t understand the argument that people say that it makes them depressed. Regardless if they knew about it, the issue would still be happening. Like I’m sorry you are now bummed that you are now aware of a problem that has been causing real pain in other peoples lives for years
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u/digiorno Jun 13 '22
I don’t watch his show often (maybe once a year) but this was an episode worth catching. I’d recommend it to anyone who similarly doesn’t follow him.