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The Apprentice 2018

Started by Malcy, September 17, 2018, 04:24:40 PM

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Hat FM

Karen was very critical of eyebrow piercing girl for someone who has, presumably, never made chocolates before in her life.

She was half cut on all the boozy ingredients but that was never mentioned as a factor in her poor decision making.

mojo filters

That was a truly dreadful episode. The task was relatively easy compared with many, yet both teams produced fundamentally flawed products that they then failed to pitch well through poor planning!

Hardly a good sign that the "process" has whittled down the 5 best candidates? Also I was surprised too that the loser's apparent alcohol consumption was not referenced, given her dumb ingredients blunder.

Oh, and yet another cheap, shitty prize...

At least it's interviews next week, which is inevitably the most predictably entertaining episode every time!

The Roofdog

This series has really shit the bed. We've had duff finalists before but never a series where not a single competent or entertaining person made it to the interview round.

Norton Canes

For one week each year they should swap all the contestants in The Apprentice with all the contestants in Strictly Come Dancing

Emma Raducanu

Weakest final 5 ever. Doesn't feel like Alan sugar is invested in the process either which is why it was to my surprise he's already advertising for next year. Camilla has to be the worst to have ever made it this far isn't she. She's fucking gash, her. The whole episode felt limp and irrelevant like it had run out of steam. I say that as someone who's enjoyed the series.

hummingofevil

Sabrina is half-Indian!!! Remarkable that.

I hate this Final Five show. First one I've ever watched.

hummingofevil

Khadija yo win definitely. Or maybe Sabrina at a push. The others come across as complete dicks.

hummingofevil

Ha ha. Daniel sells hangover cures to dry countries. Utter pleb.

hummingofevil

God I hate Camilla. Spoiled brat delusional business model. £1000 worth of sales! Ha ha. Mug.

Captain Crunch

This is all fun and games until some jumped up little squit in blue poly thinks this is the way to conduct an interview in real life.  Sad. 


Hat FM

glad i'm not in business world where someone that you've just spent a long period of time with reaches out for a handshake and you look at them like a piece of shit. I liked Khadija having a go back at that shouty bitch. take that mate!

neveragain

Quite right. Claude? Cunt more like.

St_Eddie

Quote from: Hat FM on December 14, 2018, 01:26:45 PM
glad i'm not in business world where someone that you've just spent a long period of time with reaches out for a handshake and you look at them like a piece of shit.

Pfft!  As if that would have happened in the real business world.  The Apprentice is a pantomime and it's Claude's job to play the role of the wicked witch.  Surprised that some people actually buy into it wholesale, to be honest.  Reality television is scarcely real.  It's mostly manufactured artifice, with an eye to creating a narrative comprised of good guy underdogs and all powerful villains, for the viewers at home to cheer on and boo at respectively.

EOLAN

Oh that was a really dull interview episode. Partly due to my favourite obviously being edited for an underwhelming knock-out. With Sabrina's not interviewed until everyone else was almost interviewed twice. No real major knock-out blows or astonishing finds. And then they effectively everyone showed being found out early on and towards end of interview some were starting to get strong in a bid to validate that it is some sort of quality.
Guess I be cheering on Nut Milk girl 'cos that product branding tied to that product name was just perfectly pornographic. Of course Karen can give her plenty of connections if she wishes to go further down that line.

hummingofevil

Did you watch final 5? The two of the finalists' businesses are a joke. Camilla is obviously a spoiled brat who has that annoying trait of thinking she's from nothing because her daddy is a self mad man. Literally grinding nuts in her kitchen and sold £1000 worth of stuff. Her entire business is less credible than one of the tasks.

Sian makes bikinis in her house. Yeah they nice enough but when you got likes of Boo Hoo knocking out thousands of them for quarter of price and 100x the profit it's bizarre.

—-

I love the Apprentice but I think that episode has finished me. Khadija has experience of building a business, employing a reasonable number of staff and the investment would have had an obvious impact as she continues to grow. But no, the girl with a working class accent and foreign sounding name gets fired because she's raised her voice at a bunch of arseholes. For Karen to sit there smugly calling out (the women don't forget) for sexualising their products is bad enough (but she has something of a point) but to repeatedly call out a women for being aggressive when they are being nothing as such is sexism-in-business-beginner-lesson. Bullshit.

mojo filters

Those final two candidates make no sense. They also both have so many flaws, it's hard to see which would be the easy choice if the final decision ends up close to a toss up. In the past, there's generally been one safer candidate in terms of history and business plan, if the final task is not particularly helpful (not that it often is).

Assuming both perform reasonably well next week, I think he'll go for nut milk girl. As a growing industry it seems like the better bet, despite her inexperience. The latter can easily be used to eliminate swimwear girl, because of the need to dramatically scale up her rather uninspiring and risky cottage industry.

im barry bethel

The puppy and yummy mummy were made to look stupid, not as stupid as Billy Bullshit and his over 1 million sold. That northern one with the annoying voice and chip on both shoulders should have got the gooner just on her irritatingness. Remember last year's revelation of 2 winners?, well this year given the dire nature of both finalists Shuggs is gonna keep his money in his pocket and have no winner

Quote from: hummingofevil on December 14, 2018, 06:59:04 PM
I love the Apprentice but I think that episode has finished me. Khadija has experience of building a business, employing a reasonable number of staff and the investment would have had an obvious impact as she continues to grow. But no, the girl with a working class accent and foreign sounding name gets fired because she's raised her voice at a bunch of arseholes. For Karen to sit there smugly calling out (the women don't forget) for sexualising their products is bad enough (but she has something of a point) but to repeatedly call out a women for being aggressive when they are being nothing as such is sexism-in-business-beginner-lesson. Bullshit.

Eh, fuck her and her industry based on exploiting low-wage workers. She yelled at an interviewer and thought her tiny cleaning business could handle a contract for the massive high rise. Had nothing to do with her "working class accent"

I'm surprised Sabrina (?) was fired since she was the only one that seemed somewhat competent, performed well in interviews, and had a somewhat plausible business. The amount of capital that it would take to scale a drink or clothing business is ludicrous and a nonstarter. Nut milk woman will probably win because at least that could plausibly be sold down the line for profit to a major player in the market.

mjwilson

I thought "I haven't heard anything you've said for the last minute, it was just a droning sound", was unnecessarily rude, even for The Apprentice.

Ferris

Quote from: mjwilson on December 15, 2018, 09:40:20 AM
I thought "I haven't heard anything you've said for the last minute, it was just a droning sound", was unnecessarily rude, even for The Apprentice.

They are really unpleasant to each other. I wonder how many of them have ever worked in any line of business at all. It's about fostering relationships, creating a network, and being well-disposed to people (as well as being smart and quick on your feet). These people never seem to have any of those skills, and for that reason - I'm out.

hummingofevil

Quote from: Pearly-Dewdrops Drops on December 14, 2018, 11:38:05 PM
Eh, fuck her and her industry based on exploiting low-wage workers. She yelled at an interviewer and thought her tiny cleaning business could handle a contract for the massive high rise. Had nothing to do with her "working class accent"

I see you making a general point but what suggestion is there that she exploits workers? Is the general idea of zero hours or "self-employed" being effectively used as employees without the benefits or contributions? Happy to be enlightened here.

The high-rise conversation was another example of how she was ridiculed for being ambitious and throughout the series she was called aggressive when being nothing of the short. In short I disagree.

neveragain

But she has repeatedly been aggressive, both in tasks and the boardroom. For examples of this, look up 'The Apprentice' on iPlayer.

hummingofevil

She was just talking loudly.

Speaking of which, Shuggs is making a total arse of himself on Twitter. Claiming the Labour Party is full of low achieving jealous Marxistsabd he's leaving the country if Corbin gets in. LOL.

holyzombiejesus

What a fucking shambles of a programme. Bit late with this but caught up last night. That stupid bit where he surprised them all by turning up at the house unannounced yet their kitchen was all done out in Christmas decorations.

mojo filters

Quote from: holyzombiejesus on December 16, 2018, 03:54:01 PM
What a fucking shambles of a programme. Bit late with this but caught up last night. That stupid bit where he surprised them all by turning up at the house unannounced yet their kitchen was all done out in Christmas decorations.

The "surprise" was more believable than the ability for all those people to get up and ready and into cars in 20 minutes, every time the phone rings for a new task!

This series has been a proper shambles, both from the candidate and production perspective. And those fucking shitty "treats" every time...


mojo filters

Quote from: hummingofevil on December 16, 2018, 05:34:45 PM
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/alan-sugar-the-apprentice-quit-reason-why-season-14-bbc-a8594606.html

Sounds like Shuggs has had more editorial control over this series. Might explain why it's less good

That's interesting. I can't say I really noticed him being less aggressive this season, but there was definitely some kind of shift beyond the paucity of the candidates. Sadly not really for the better.

I also wonder if he wanted to distance himself from Trump too? I've noticed Mark Burnett is not credited as any kind of producer this series, though I don't know if he was in the past either.

Normally creators of successful TV franchises manage to ensure some kind of gratuitous vanity credit.

I always felt sorry for Joss Whedon, when the same folks who ruined his original novel with their shitty movie, grifted their way not only to a portion of the proceeds of his impressive TV adaptation of Buffy - but got prominent executive producer credits in the opening titles!

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