I can usually take reality TV or leave it. I have long since tired of the parade of egotistical idiots imprisoned in the Big Brother House, or the Z list celebrities camping out in the jungle and subsisting on live insects and foul-smelling vegetables.
But The Apprentice is in a different league. There is something totally addictive about watching these candidates screw up in the most magnificent ways, with tasks that in reality should be a pushover for anyone with a degree of business acumen. The problem [and the whole point of the show no doubt] is most of them do not have even an ounce of business acumen. And those that do are so busy trying to shout over each other they always miss the obvious, lose the task, or win by making less of a loss than the others. Then they face the wrath of Sir Alan and that is when the fun really start...
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