Season 6 of last week, the first of our season comes back to this impending disaster.

John Oliver launched the sixth season of Last week tonight Sunday night by registering for Brexit, which, you may not be surprised to hear, remains a huge bloody cluster. To give his viewers an idea of ​​the enormity of the panic in question, Oliver had to use extreme methods: a Churchillian address on the unshakable determination of the UK to get off the ground, a Cup saying "Piece of Rebar", and the most shocking of all, a video clip of a group of boys called the Breunion Boys urging the UK to stay in the European Union. Check it out:

It is impossible for a civilization to recover from something like that. It is depressing to encounter such a blatant example of humanity shooting itself in the foot, especially when there does not seem to be a good option to repair the damage. The only way to advance, at this point, is back, to the Sondheim. So let's go back to 2017 and ask how we got here:

This is a much younger and more optimistic John Oliver! Although we now know that Oliver's confidence in Lord Buckethead's bargaining ability was misplaced, a species that can produce a Lord Buckethead in the first place is probably not totally irremediable. Let's go back even further before the referendum on Brexit (and Donald Trump):

We were all so young! We had so much potential! How did we lose sight of our dreams, our friends, all that mattered to us? Why does something before the Donald Trump election seem tragically, stupidly optimistic when we look at it now? Why does John Oliver continue to include short excerpts of terrible European music videos that are a million times more terrible when you look at them in their entirety?

The sad truth is that, despite the emotional catharsis caused by the reorganization of John Oliver's segments on the Brexit in reverse chronological order, this will actually do nothing to counter this imminent disaster, and we do not know what will happen . But after watching this latest music video along the way, one thing is painfully obvious: OK Go must be brought to justice.

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