Last night’s Last Week Tonight took a closer look at the crumbling infrastructure in the United States, from the thousands of uninspected dams across the country to bridges in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and New York that could realistically collapse at any minute: “When we’re at a point where the Secretary of Transportation is struggling to decide between using the word ‘unsafe’ and the word ‘dangerous,’ we might have a problem worth fixing.†Since no taxpayers or politicians seem interested in the very unglamorous job of routine road maintenance, Last Week Tonight enlisted the help of stars like Edward Norton, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Steve Buscemi to film an intense thriller called Infrastructure with the hopes of making the issue sexy enough for people to start caring about again.
‘Last Week Tonight’ Makes America’s Crumbling Infrastructure Sexy Again
