Reality t.v. might have finally jumped the shark this year. There are almost no new ideas out there for a new show that haven't already been done, or tried, and the old mainstays that have been with us for a few years are beginning to show their age. And seriously, how much longer can we really take the "Housewives"?.
.The only thing interesting about last night's "The Apprentice" was the extent to which The Donald went ballistic. The men's team staged a horrifically bad fashion show, but Trump's rage was something akin to the reaction one would get if one had to tell him his hair had grown an immunity to hair spray and would no longer accept a comb-over. Trump was so angry at the men that he committed the rare "double-firing", firing two contestants in one sitting. While watching the episode, we guessed that Trump would blow a gasket, but we thought he'd go crazy over the fact that the women's team paraded a bunch of male models down the runway in their underwear. Trump is notoriously uncomfortable with the idea of men being overtly sexy and showing lots of skin; who can forget the episode a few years back in which the male contestant walked a runway in a square-cut bikini, and Trump went into a raging meltdown. One has to wonder about a guy who gets so upset about the sight of half-naked men. There are counselors for issues like yours, Mr. Trump, get some help. But the biggest head-scratcher of this year's "Apprentice" are the contestants. Supposedly the members of this cast have "run big companies" and made six figure salaries, but they're so devoid of even some of the most basic work skills, one has to wonder if they aren't all really just struggling actors who showed up for a reality show casting session.
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Normally, we can count on "Survivor" to entertain us, but even that show is beginning to wear thin. We'd love to report some interesting news about the past couple of weeks, but the show just hasn't been very exciting lately. Last week, 48 year-old Jimmy T. was voted out, and on Wednesday night we lost Tyrone, another "oldster". And then... uh... oh, forget it, that's about as exciting as it got. Let's hope it gets better in weeks to come. We mean, come on, we've got a "crazy" in contestant NaOnka, but on Wednesday night, even she halted her out-of-control rant to calm down, and by episode's end, she had stopped rocking in a fetal position and her eyes had lost that wild, "I'm about to lunge for your throat" look, as she sat quietly with the others. Look, Survivor producers, we get it that you probably had to stun gun her and forcibly shove some meds down her throat, but just for a couple of weeks, could you lose the Oxycontin?
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