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The Apprentice - Season 17 - Thread 2 - The Season With A lot of (Lip) Filler!

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RicciardoPerez · 16/02/2023 14:02

Thread 2 :)

Looking forward to catching up on tonight's ep! What was it again? A children's cartoon?

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ArticSaviour · 23/02/2023 21:56

MrJollyLivesNextDoor · 23/02/2023 21:55

Dani looks like a blow up doll

She is inflating more and more every second

ArticSaviour · 23/02/2023 21:57

Not sure how that ended with only one firing

MichaelAndEagle · 23/02/2023 21:59

Dani's face was hilarious. She looked like a moody teenager being told off at school.

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 23/02/2023 21:59

Why were they all in matching casuals?

MichaelAndEagle · 23/02/2023 22:00

ArticSaviour · 23/02/2023 21:53

So glad that Suralan stepped in there - Mark was so going to bring the others in

He was definitely going to try and pin it on them.

BogRollBOGOF · 23/02/2023 22:02

ArticSaviour · 23/02/2023 21:57

Not sure how that ended with only one firing

Lack of double options?
One withdrew
One sent home
Not many to spare!

While Danni and Victoria performed poorly, there wasn't much space to really reform Mark's "strategy" and approach.

Meghan and Simba did a great job despite the rest of the team's performance.

ArticSaviour · 23/02/2023 22:05

MichaelAndEagle · 23/02/2023 21:59

Dani's face was hilarious. She looked like a moody teenager being told off at school.

Was she bovvered, though?

ArcaneWireless · 23/02/2023 22:06

Canny Dani love. He said he didn’t want to hear any more.

<uncanny>

The Apprentice - Season 17 - Thread 2 - The Season With A lot of (Lip) Filler!
ArcaneWireless · 23/02/2023 22:06

Linda 😍

BogRollBOGOF · 23/02/2023 22:07

MichaelAndEagle · 23/02/2023 22:00

He was definitely going to try and pin it on them.

Which just makes him look even more clueless.

He really was dire.

mummyofcutetwo · 23/02/2023 22:09

How did Danni get through that board room experience? She contributes so little and had nothing that could convince anyone to keep her in “the process” surely. It was the ideal opportunity to get rid.

Twisting · 23/02/2023 22:10

Has anyone else noticed that Dani looks like she's escaped from a Wallace and Gromit film? Or have I just skimmed the thread?

AnImaginaryCat · 23/02/2023 22:14

What I thought was ridiculous was the cheap food option in the prison was pure muck, and the mine cheap option was okay. Hardly a shock they didn't chose horrible sausages and barfy beans

Think the prison oringal cheap price was more too.

RicciardoPerez · 23/02/2023 22:16

Ok so just finished. The lips...! They're all so bad!!

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AnImaginaryCat · 23/02/2023 22:16

Twisting · 23/02/2023 22:10

Has anyone else noticed that Dani looks like she's escaped from a Wallace and Gromit film? Or have I just skimmed the thread?

Yes. It's all over twitter.

I mean I know she's chosen to pump up her lips and they look silly but it's actually horrible isn't it how she's being mocked.

AnImaginaryCat · 23/02/2023 22:22

It's possible Danni might have gone already in a normal year but they've lost one and kicked out another so probably can't balance the numbers to do double firing.

I think if I was Lord Sugar I'd have kept Mark. Mearly due to the fact he can string a reasonable well constructed sentence together - least more than others.

ArcaneWireless · 23/02/2023 22:24

Her coupon. Her choice. Her lips are one thing.

Rolling your eyes and doing sulky pouty mouth (a la Les in the pic I posted above) is quite another.

That said, I’m the same. My mouth will be giving it the big guff and my face will show exactly what I’m really thinking.

CalpurniaJones · 23/02/2023 22:24

I said this in week two and my family looked at me as if I was weird!
I may well be, but I feel vindicated!

CalpurniaJones · 23/02/2023 22:26

CalpurniaJones · 23/02/2023 22:24

I said this in week two and my family looked at me as if I was weird!
I may well be, but I feel vindicated!

Replying to @NancyPickford about
Piella

mummyofcutetwo · 23/02/2023 22:30

@AnImaginaryCat Did they kick one out?

AnImaginaryCat · 23/02/2023 22:36

Reece = one kicked out. Aka "left for health reasons".

HippoInABadWig · 23/02/2023 22:37

mummyofcutetwo · 23/02/2023 22:30

@AnImaginaryCat Did they kick one out?

The one with the face that looked like a black hole collapsing.
Reece, I think her was called.

mummyofcutetwo · 23/02/2023 22:40

Thanks @AnImaginaryCat and @HippoInABadWig I must have missed that bit! I clearly haven’t missed him much.

psychomath · 23/02/2023 23:14

I really enjoyed that episode! Hearing the premise I was sure it was the product of the showrunners brainstorming ways to cause maximum possible humiliation for the candidates, but business decisions aside both tours looked fab. It was great to see more of Megan after she initially seemed so quiet - honestly don't think I even registered she was on the show until about episode 3 - and I thought she defended herself really well in the boardroom. She and Simba obviously managed to turn things around with the older ladies who thought they were getting a sedate historical tour, and the guests must genuinely have loved it if no-one asked for a refund after their food was an hour late.

On the other team it was nice to see Marnie getting to be silly and have some fun after the obvious friction between her and the others in previous tasks, and again it was clear the guests were having a great time. Even more impressive that they pulled it all off after one day's prep when none of them are professional performers. And then to cap it all the right candidate got fired, instead of someone decent getting shafted for spurious production reasons! (Bizarre that Mark decided to PM this of all tasks, when he's so obviously not a people person - maybe he just wanted to be really sure he wouldn't be put on the acting team Grin)

In recent years it's felt like they've intentionally picked all the worst candidates and then set them up to fail in every task, and while that is admittedly where most of the entertainment comes from, I think they sometimes forget that for the show to be enjoyable we need some good characters who we're rooting for too. Watching an interchangeable group of irritating dumb people be incompetent week after week is boring - most of the time I feel like I'm watching out of some weird Stockholm syndrome rather than because I actually like the show. I'd love to see more episodes like this that are actually fun instead of vaguely depressing.

(As an aside it really annoys me how they can't win in these tasks - if they pick the expensive options and lose they get patronised about how 'this is a PROFIT task, why wouldn't your priority be keeping the costs down?', and if they pick the cheap options and lose they get an earful about how 'the guests are paying £xxx for this experience and you gave them half a sausage served on a squashed potato, there's no point keeping costs down if it means people are going to ask for refunds'. I was glad Megan pushed back on that because picking the budget food option when she thought they were selling tickets for £180 would have been ridiculous.)

Fizbosshoes · 23/02/2023 23:27

mummyofcutetwo · 23/02/2023 22:09

How did Danni get through that board room experience? She contributes so little and had nothing that could convince anyone to keep her in “the process” surely. It was the ideal opportunity to get rid.

I think she's one of the best candidates, she's got way more initiative and ideas than a lot of them

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