Damned Apprentice. I didn't put up a blog last week because the episode was awful. The entire task was a shambles, both teams were terrible and once again the team that sucked the least was awarded the win. And in the boardroom Lord Sugar fired ENTIRELY the wrong person. I was well and truly over it. And I said as much on Monday on Facebook. But I thought I may as well still watch Wednesday's episode. And it was not only the best episode of the series, it was the best episode in quite a few years. First thing to say, an absolutely brilliant job by Luisa as pm on the girls' team. In fact, a suspiciously good job, because she's shown no prior evidence of being able to work with...well, anyone. She and the other girls (because I can't give her all the credit) played it absolutely perfectly. They chose the right products, displayed them very well on the stall and in the shop and sold well. Cheap womenswear was absolutely the right way to go and, even including the two teams last year when they had the same task, they were the only team to successfully "smell what sells" as the most working class Lord ever kept saying. To tell the truth I think there being six candidates left really made the women up their game, game being the operative word when it comes to Luisa who I think was as conniving as ever this week but in a much subtler way. And so the women got a hugely well-deserved win, the first time this series I've thought either team deserved a win, or even really a single compliment. And so there are 3 women in the top 5. But please, Leah, don't act like that's a huge thing. Good job, Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves and all that, but it's just 3 out of 5. Statistically there have to be at least 3 members of one gender in the top 5. I don't think many women at home are saying "Yaay, 3!" I also blog Hell's Kitchen, and they're at the same stage, with 4 women. That's news. But not big news.
Onto the far less successful mens' team. I knew they'd lost from the minute they chose the products. Myles has an almost snobbish sensibility, and when it came to selling on a market stall he decided to go for products he'd buy. First mistake. I'm gonna give Neil some credit, because his only real role was selling, and he did it very well. But Lord Sugar had a point about how little else Neil had done across the process. Still, it was by far the best performance on the men's team, in the sense that he wasn't a colossal disaster. The other two should both have been fired, preferably from large cannons. Myles made one mistake after another, from product selection, to sales strategy, the name of the shop (Casa Unique is the worst name ever on The Apprentice, including Ricky Martin) and worst of all sending Jordan to restock. I asked last time who Jordan was. Now I know that flying way under the radar was a great move because he has no business skills. But after two weeks of solid awfulness, with a ridiculous business plan and having failed to live up to any of the early promise he showed, it was Myles Mordaunt's turn to be told to piss off. I know Lord Sugar said "You're Fired" as always but in my head he mixes it up a bit. At first I thought Myles was too talented for the show, but now I know he was so full of hot air he could've floated. Behind the abs and the slightly slimy charm is someone we didn't get to see on the show, and I wonder who he really was. Actually, I don't care.So it comes down to 5 next week, three mediocre(Leah, other blonde and Neil), one crazy (Luisa) and one pitiful (whatshisface.) I actually can't predict who's going to the final. If that sounds like a good thing, it's not. In some cases there are more deserving people than there are places in the final. In this case, I'm not sure there are any. The interviews stage on Wednesday looks more brutal than ever, and I couldn't be more excited by that. Well, I probably could if I cared about the candidates.
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