Subscription Fatigue Gets The John Oliver Treatment

John Oliver mostly just vents about the glut of subscription services

As John Oliver readily admitted at the beginning of Last Week Tonight‘s main segment last night, the fact that so many products and services have become subscription models in the past few years is hardly the biggest issue we’re facing today. It pales in comparison to the Iran War or the lettuce that gives you diarrhea or even the overabundance of donut toppings. But it is an issue that’s uniquely annoying with a capacity to make you feel like a…

Subscription Fatigue Gets The John Oliver Treatment

“Last Week Tonight” with John Oliver on HBO devoted its main segment over the weekend to the plethora of subscription services out there, including Amazon Prime to Hello Fresh.  As usual, the sarcasm is unsparing, the language sometimes is NSFW (or for home if you have little kids), and the criticisms, I think, are generally well-founded. Enjoy. KC’s View: I checked in with Tom Furphy about this segment after it aired;  after all, for lots of r…