The Week’s Best TV: Gollum Goes Late-Night and John Oliver Destroys Dr. Oz — wired.com

These past few weeks have been something like purgatory on TV. Spring programs are off air. The late night shows have inconsiderately taken large breaks and left us wayward, searching for canned laughs and strange celebrity sports in the YouTube archives like common scavengers. But with the summer slate starting to trickle in, we’re hoping this is the beginning of our ascent from the cave of shadows and back into the sun. For this week, NBC’s gaggle of morning talk hosts gave us some cheap laughs and TV’s favorite clone brigade invited us to a brief house party. John Oliver continued to be our rock (bless you, sir) and on Sunday we started our final walk with True Blood. Much like the United States House of Representatives, we shall overcome this challenging time. Let us join hands as a nation—preferably in the most awkward fashion possible—and share in the joy of WIRED’s weekly TV recap together. Kumbaya, friends.

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