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By
WAYNE KLEIN
I've always wanted to be
fired by "The Donald." When you first open the box
that holds this reality series, you get exactly
that. It makes you feel all warm and gooey inside.
"The Donald," man, what a card!
"The Apprentice" truly is a guilty pleasure
unlike, say, "Survivor" (OK, that's a guilty
pleasure, too). We get the entire first season of
the series, where contestants elect to humiliate
themselves for money and a lucrative position in
corporate America. Sounds like the real world to
me. One advantage to the DVD vs. the series is you
can watch it backward from who wins to the very
beginning of the challenge and see the twisted
logic and events that helped spawn the winner.
Seeing natural selection in action would make
Charles Darwin proud. It's a pity that the funky
theme song wasn't available for the DVD. The
generic music they have at the beginning of the
DVD just doesn't compare to The O'Jays "For the
Love of Money."
The last disc packs all the extras on it. We get a
preview of Season Two, "The Donald" shares his
wisdom on the game, the contestants and his hair
(just kidding about the last bit). We also get a
number of other short featurettes including "The
Job Description," which features screen tests, a
behind the scenes glimpse of the show and a tour
of the infamous suite where a lot of the drama
unfolds. Remember when someone was fired and they
ranted and raved? Well we get stuff cut out of the
show. We get to see sour grapes as never before.
The best featurette for me was the audition tapes.
You have to see them to believe them. We also get
deleted scenes, career advice from George and
Carolyn, plus the excuses that some of the
contestants came up with to explain their
behavior. Watching Producer Mark Burnett's
discussion of "The Donald" surprised me. If he's a
billionaire and so important, why the neck did he
do the show in the first place? Doesn't he have
more important things to do?
It's all here. The tantrums, the advice, the
foolish behavior, the 16 contestants all vying for
attention and fame, it's all here in living color.
My only disappointment is the lack of a featurette
on Trump's hair. Is it alive or merely a bad wig?
Only Mark Burnett, "The Donald," his wife-to-be
and his hairdresser know for sure. For Season Two
perhaps they could make that part of the prize
package. Really, America needs to get a life! |
