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Apprentice 2022

Post by Achtung Englander » Fri Jan 07, 2022 12:23 am

Anyone watching this drivel this year?

Its very much going through the motions now....
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Re: Apprentice 2022

Post by Mantis » Fri Jan 07, 2022 12:54 am

I think the format has been very tired for quite a few seasons now. It's not entertaining enough anymore to balance out the fact that Alan Sugar is a colossal douchebag.

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Post by Raid » Fri Jan 07, 2022 6:37 am

I thought they'd taken covid as an excuse to end it. I had no idea it was even being planned, much less started airing. I'll maybe give it a try later on.

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Re: Apprentice 2022

Post by Wrathbone » Fri Jan 07, 2022 7:35 am

I watched it. It was worth it for the terrible logo from one team. Also, google ‘bouji’ beforehand unless you want to be bewildered for half the episode.

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Re: Apprentice 2022

Post by Snowy » Fri Jan 07, 2022 7:44 am

Wrathbone wrote:
Fri Jan 07, 2022 7:35 am
I watched it. It was worth it for the terrible logo from one team. Also, google ‘bouji’ beforehand unless you want to be bewildered for half the episode.
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Post by Sly Boots » Fri Jan 07, 2022 7:47 am

We'll be watching it, but we'll probably let it ride for a few weeks so we can watch it a bit more frequently than once a week on iplayer.

Plus we're into The Silent Sea at the moment, then there's Cobra Kai and Witcher S2 to finish up...

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Re: Apprentice 2022

Post by Achtung Englander » Fri Jan 07, 2022 9:42 am

after 15 min of the 1st episode I lost interest
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Re: Apprentice 2022

Post by Raid » Fri Jan 07, 2022 1:54 pm

I watched it at lunch. Honestly I very nearly turned it off during the intro because I remembered how much I hate every single applicant that ends up on this series, which when combined with covid jokes, didn't exactly set the right tone. But I watched it and remembered why I enjoy it; all of this bravado, all of this energy and confidence, and they're all fucking terrible.

Firstly, "bouji" (I did have to look that up on Wrath's suggestion) is, I'm assuming, a trendy term, but relating anything to the bourgeoisie to me is a stupid idea. I guess I read it in the philosophical context - the opposite of the proletariat. With so many problems caused by the wealthy, linking these things just seems dumb as a branding exercise.

And bloody hell, that logo. I didn't think the idea was terrible, a yoga pose transitioning into a wave, but the execution was hilarious.

But please tell me they didn't put that massive monstrosity of a ship to sea for these idiots, and that the production team just inserted stock footage of it. A lot of this programme comes across as a bit tone deaf in 2022, but promoting an environmental disaster was probably the worst bit.

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Post by Snowy » Sun Jan 09, 2022 6:26 pm

That was fucking awful.
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Post by Sly Boots » Sun Jan 09, 2022 6:31 pm

I thought it was pretty entertaining, but then I've always watched this for the pleasure of seeing idiots fuck up rather than any pretence at finding an entreprenurial wunderkind, and from that perspective it continues to deliver.

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Re: Apprentice 2022

Post by Wrathbone » Sun Jan 09, 2022 8:02 pm

It never fails to amaze me how these people don't understand that the very fact they've been accepted onto the show confirms that they are top-shelf morons. :lol: Did they watch previous seasons marvelling at what they considered to be business prowess?

Even if they're aware of that and do it anyway for a 1 in 16 chance of winning a load of money, do they not consider that there's a 15 in 16 chance of them committing career suicide instead?

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Post by Hatredsheart » Sun Jan 09, 2022 8:41 pm

I find it difficult to believe that any of those people can dress themselves without help.
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Re: Apprentice 2022

Post by Raid » Sun Jan 09, 2022 9:18 pm

Wrathbone wrote:
Sun Jan 09, 2022 8:02 pm
It never fails to amaze me how these people don't understand that the very fact they've been accepted onto the show confirms that they are top-shelf morons. :lol: Did they watch previous seasons marvelling at what they considered to be business prowess?

Even if they're aware of that and do it anyway for a 1 in 16 chance of winning a load of money, do they not consider that there's a 15 in 16 chance of them committing career suicide instead?
I suppose it's a Dunning-Kruger thing. Yes, they probably think that previous contestants were good business-people because they themselves are so bad at it. It's either that or everyone's in on the joke, and they've only been picked because they know how to give an entertainingly shit performance.

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Re: Apprentice 2022

Post by Snowy » Mon Jan 10, 2022 8:18 am

Sly Boots wrote:
Sun Jan 09, 2022 6:31 pm
I thought it was pretty entertaining, but then I've always watched this for the pleasure of seeing idiots fuck up rather than any pretence at finding an entreprenurial wunderkind, and from that perspective it continues to deliver.
Oh the utterly cretinous candidates making an arse of everything is all still the same, but it feels so bloody tired. Waiting in the initial briefing for Sugar to crank out jokes that would struggle to make in into a Xmas cracker before all of them bursting into sycophantic laughter, man it nearly went off at that point.
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Re: Apprentice 2022

Post by Wrathbone » Mon Jan 10, 2022 8:48 am

I get more annoyed with the futile attempts to build tension before the firing, as if anyone cares at this point (or at any point, some years). Sugar doling out the old "and for that reason... I'm struggling" every other sentence.

I wouldn't be surprised if he's not even there and the production team just cobble together stock footage of him talking bollocks.

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