The Apprentice Finale
The Apprentice used to be my favorite show. I started watching it during its second season, and I loved how it was a reality show that was actually based in reality. The tasks contestants had to complete each week were business-related tasks that showed how they would perform in the job they were competing for. The show really was a long job interview. However, as each season passed, it seemed that quality of the contestants kept dropping, and each finale meant less and less. In fact, the last two years I wished Donald Trump would have hired neither finalist (though I really enjoyed Randal’s awesome refusal to give up his title, a rare display of rational selfishness on national TV).
The show’s decline accelerated this season. Not only was the candidate pool relatively poor, the entire show became more gimmicky. For example, the losing team had to sleep outside in tents, and the project manager of the winning team stayed on until they lost (instead of just exempting them from being fired the next week). To make it worse, the length of the season was cut short by one week, which put four finalists into the final show rather than the usual two. And to top it off, the woman who won tonight had never been project manager throughout the entire process.
I’ll be surprised if the Apprentice comes back for another season.
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