Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - Season 3
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Air Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.835 (739 votes)
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Voting
Season 3 - Episode 1
John talks about the late Antonin Scalia's love of the Letter of the Law, Chipotle's food safety problems, how Voter IDs laws should be appl...
Abortion Laws
Season 3 - Episode 2
John talks about the South Carolina Republican primary, the Supreme Court vacancy and abortion, which theoretically is legal in the U.S., bu...
Donald Trump
Season 3 - Episode 3
John talks about the Egyptian president and economic crisis, the Guantanamo Bay shutdown and Donald Trump.
Special Districts
Season 3 - Episode 4
Special districts spend more public money than all city governments combined. That's odd considering most of us don't know they exist.
Encryption
Season 3 - Episode 5
Strong encryption poses problems for law enforcement, is weakening it worth the risks it presents? It's…complicated.
Border Wall
Season 3 - Episode 6
Donald Drumpf wants to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Is his plan feasible?
Congressional Fundraising
Season 3 - Episode 7
Lawmakers have to raise money to keep their jobs, but a surprising amount of their job now consists of raising money. John Oliver sits down ...
Credit Reports
Season 3 - Episode 8
Credit reports play a surprisingly large role in our lives, but even more surprising is how often they contain critical mistakes. John Olive...
Lead
Season 3 - Episode 9
Lead poisoning is a national problem. If only lawmakers were as concerned as the puppets on Sesame Street.
Puerto Rico
Season 3 - Episode 10
Puerto Rico is suffering a massive debt crisis. Lin-Manuel Miranda joins John Oliver to call for relief.
Scientific Studies
Season 3 - Episode 11
John Oliver on Sticking to the Facts: Media outlets often report new findings from scientific studies, but how many are true?
911
Season 3 - Episode 12
John Oliver on 911 Reliability: Things you never want to hear: there are no guarantees when you call 911. Emergency call centers are in desp...
Primaries and Caucuses
Season 3 - Episode 13
Last Week Tonight Tackles U.S. Primaries and Caucuses: The United States selection process for presidential nominees is convoluted — to say ...
Debt Buyers
Season 3 - Episode 14
John Oliver Takes On Debt Buyers: Companies that purchase debt on the cheap will aggressively collect on it. 'Last Week Tonight’ took a hand...
Retirement Plans
Season 3 - Episode 15
John Oliver Covers Ins and Outs of Retirement Plans: Saving for retirement means navigating a potential minefield of high fees and bad advic...
Brexit
Season 3 - Episode 16
John Oliver on “Brexiting” from the EU: There might be an innate British desire to diss Europe, but Last Week Tonight lays out exactly why i...
Doping
Season 3 - Episode 17
John talks about the aftermath of the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom and doping in sports with the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio on the hor...
Republican National Convention
Season 3 - Episode 18
John talks about the disastrous Republican National Convention in Cleveland, where politicians were mostly talking about their feelings equa...
Democratic National Convention
Season 3 - Episode 19
John covers the rocky Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Plus, the military coup in Turkey and its aftermath, the voter ID laws...
Journalism
Season 3 - Episode 20
John Oliver has some bad news about the state of the industry that gives us our news. Plus, the coverage of the Opening Ceremony of Rio Olym...
Auto Lending
Season 3 - Episode 21
Auto lenders can steer vulnerable people into crushing debt. Keegan-Michael Key and Bob Balaban help John Oliver show exactly how.
Charter Schools
Season 3 - Episode 22
Charter schools are privately run, publicly funded, and irregularly regulated. John Oliver explores why they aren’t at all like pizzerias.
Scandals
Season 3 - Episode 23
Taking a walk down memory lane, 'Last Week Tonight' assesses Donald Trump's vs. Hillary Clinton's scandals.
Police Accountability
Season 3 - Episode 24
John Oliver discusses the systems in place to investigate and hold police officers accountable for misconduct.
Guantánamo
Season 3 - Episode 25
John Oliver examines the legal and moral issues surrounding the military prison at Guantánamo Bay.
Third Parties
Season 3 - Episode 26
Third party candidates want to be serious contenders, so John Oliver considers them seriously as potential presidents.
Opioids
Season 3 - Episode 27
John Oliver discusses the extent and root of the nation’s epidemic of opioid addiction.
School Segregation
Season 3 - Episode 28
Public schools are increasingly divided by race and class. John Oliver discusses the troubling trend towards school resegregation.
Multilevel Marketing
Season 3 - Episode 29
Multilevel marketing companies claim to be legitimate businesses, but some seems awfully pyramid shaped, and that's a problem.
President-Elect Trump
Season 3 - Episode 30
The presidential race has been a hell of a ride. ‘Last Week Tonight’ closes out the election and Season 3 with a bang.