John Oliver discusses 'Law & Order', Liz Truss, and the rising U.K. energy bills on the latest episode of LastWeekTonight.
Law & Order is not realistic. That is one of the main takeaways of the latest episode of Last Week Tonight. But more than that, the center topic of the episode concerned inaccurate and by extension harmful on-screen depictions of law and order, the police work and the justice system, in the US.
Before jumping into the main subject, host John Oliver had to first mention some of the biggest pieces of news that happened during the two-week period in which the show was on break. Among these was the President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, trying to address his nation after a new constitution was rejected and being thwarted in his attempt at seriousness by an adorable child on a tricycle dressed as a muscly Superman, cape and all.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Moving on to the decades-old legal franchise, Oliver could not talk about the series without first mentioning that Adam Driver appeared in a 2012 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for a little over 3 minutes. Once that incredibly relevant piece of trivia was out of the way, the host jumped into the core issue of viewing this kind of crime TV dramas: it gives the audience a false perception of how police often operate and handle crimes in real-life.
The truth is the numbers and success rates presented in Law & Order are not indicative of the actual state of things. The closure rates for sexual assault cases are only a fraction of what the TV series makes them appear.
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