Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Juries
TV Flash files “Juries” as hour 200 of 371 in the TV Flash guide — Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014–present) on HBO, season 7, episode 21, aired 2020-08-16, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S07E21: listed hour 200 of 371 in the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver guide, hour 21 of 30 in season 7. It aired 2020-08-16 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “U.S. History” (S07E20). Next is “Border Wall II” (S07E22).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
John Oliver takes a look at why people of color are routinely excluded from becoming jurors, who their absence impacts, and what we can do to create a fairer system.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Juries sit in the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver guide?
S07E21 is listed hour 200 of 371 — hour 21 of 30 in season 7, season 7 episode 21.
When did Last Week Tonight with John Oliver S07E21 air?
Juries aired 2020-08-16 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Do I need to watch every week in order?
Each episode is a topical deep dive, not a serial plot. Jump at a subject you care about; net-neutrality-era segments are the origin myth of the civic-homework clip.
In the series
Why this series still plays
John Oliver turned late-night into a research department with punchlines: twenty-minute deep dives on net neutrality, prisons, and whatever lobbyists hoped you would never google. Civic homework disguised as comedy — explainer satire that actually moved petitions, and a host who treats footnotes like setups.
Sunday night, and the group chat is doing homework. After *The Daily Show*, John Oliver's HBO late-night series debuted April 2014 with Tim Carvell and James Taylor in the engine room: twenty-minute deep dives on net neutrality, prisons, and whatever lobbyists hoped you would never google. Segments sparked real petitions and news cycles. Multiple Emmys for variety talk. Footnotes as setups. (Spoiler-free: the joke comes with a syllabus.) Lana can have the tuxedo. **The ship is the explainer, and the replies are…
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- John Oliver as Host
John Oliver’s correspondent weather on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart made a fake newscast feel like a civic classroom, then Last Week Tonight turned the same research into twenty-minute deep dives — 2000s catalog Stewart era, 2010s…