Send Him to Tent City! The Apprentice: Los Angeles Premiere

Send Him to Tent City! The Apprentice: Los Angeles Premiere by Roxanne McDonald

Already pegging themselves for exile to the collapsible quarters, Frank and others are bossy, bullying, and exceptionally boisterous.

Did I have too much caffeine before sitting down to watch “The Apprentice: Los Angeles” premiere, or are a number of the new candidates wired, amped, whacked, and wigging already? It seems that the fast talkers, the loud talkers, the control freaks, and the blame-makers are stepping forward or making themselves known right from the very first episode.

Sure, we expect aggression. We expect the token know-it-all, the representative scapegoat, the sycophant. We expect the control freak to step in (or bust in), take

over, then displace responsibility when the strategic overthrow doesn’t work, or backfires.
But these guys are antsy, agitated, out-of-control talkative. While Trump is hugging the superheroes (as he should have, calling out and celebrating the successes of Angela, the three-time Olympian gold medalist who also graduated Harvard cum laude), I am wishing he would tell some of the others to shut the *&^# up! (I mean, he likely doesn’t want to fire the most “entertaining” candidate on the very first show, for it gives us viewers a lot less to get as excited about.)

Anyway, here is the status of the “game” in the first and as of the end of the first episode:

The eighteen candidates introduce themselves–
Aaron, The Adapter,
Aimee, The Thinker,
Angela, The Olympian.
Carey, The Perfectionist,
Derek, The Risktaker,
Frank, The Mouth,

Heidi, The Hottie,
James, The Webhead,
Jenn, The Blonde,
Kristine, The Schmoozer,
Marisa, The Politico,
Martin, The Philosopher,
Michelle, The Closer,
Muna, The Believer,
Nicole, The Dreamer,
Stefani, The Realist,
Surya, The Hair,
and Tim, The Musician.

Heidi and Frank, because they were the most vocal and most take-charge during the mysterious (in that they are not told why) tent-raising event, were made PMs (Project Managers); and the two teams were challenged to run a car wash—the team making the most money the winners and the team making the least the losers who would go to live in the tents (Tent City)…until and if they win a challenge.

Frank’s team lost the challenge, so Frank, Martin, and Tim went to the board room, where they then again screechingly cried their cases, all using the phrase “fighting for my life, here” way too much.

Despite how Donald liked Martin as a teacher and as an attorney, and though he could see Martin teaching his kids, he fired him—because he could not see him doing any side-by-side work with the Trump industry and because Ivanka also said she couldn’t fathom Martin down at the docks or shipyards or wherever big burly workers convened. Oh—it was a construction site, I believe.

So while one may have felt Frank deserved to go, again, he has the blab and b.s. (and is seen as having the heart and the hard work to succeed a while longer) to make for better TV. He is still, however, back in Tent City with the other rowdies.

Interesting it will be to see how getting together, getting it together, works for the tent-dwellers, enough so that they win a challenge rather than get on the inertia wave and consistently lose to the dry and well-cared for and well-manicured mansion dwellers.

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