Anyone else catch this last night? Mark Burnett is behind it, so you know it’s watchable, and I actually found it pretty entertaining. Unlike other “job-interview” shows (coughTheApprenticecough), the tasks were all pretty much relevant to the actual job up for grabs – and because it will be a different company/job each week, can continue to be.
I’ll watch again.
I enjoyed it, too. I agreed with who they picked as the winner, she really deserved it.
It seems like they are making people jump through a lot of hoops for a basic middle class job. I know the people are pretty grateful, but I think it’s a sad commentary that a middle-class, fairly unstable service job as an assistant manager at a restaurant is a game show prize. Not to mention they try to pretend the show is about the job market and finding great candidates, rather than exploiting people with sad circumstances and running an hour long commercial for The Palms.
BTW, did Lisa Ling have work done? She looked kinda strange.
I just tried watching it; had to shut it off 20-minutes in. It’s terrible. Plus it’s just depressing when someone gets fired and has to stand there on-stage enduring it, all for an okay job.
I find the entire concept appalling. It’s just plain cruel, the 21st century version of emotionally throwing people to the lions for the entertainment of the crowd.
Wow, way to overreact.
The applicants choose to be on the show, for whatever Warholian reasons – these are not exactly people plucked out of the unemployment line and thrown onto TV against their will.
Plus, of course they’re middle-class jobs: that way they are able to show actual on-the-job tryouts and ask questions that are relatable for the audience. The skills involved in entry-level jobs (like stocker at WalMart) wouldn’t make for particularly interesting TV, and those involved in higher level jobs and/or professional jobs are not translatable in ways that will make sense to a mass audience – as “The Apprentice” discovered within the first season or two.
This. Just sad.
Lisa is just over 8 months pregnant right now, she’s a little fuller in the face than usual and was of course in different stages throughout taping the show.
Seriously? Way to underreact then. Disgusting concept; disgusting result. But don’t let my opinion stop you from enjoying this dreck.
Sorry, twicks. I agree with Red. This is the next step on the way to Running Man or Hunger Games. Make real people’s desperation and humiliation into mass entertainment. Gladiator games for a modern age.
For some reason, this premise FEELS different from Survivor or even Big Brother. It’s too immediate and real.
Sorry, guys, I’m just not seeing it. At least what they’re going for has some basis in reality, unlike, say, The Bachelor franchise, which is about people undergoing public humiliation with *nothing *at the other end, given that the “engagements” tend to blow up before the finale is aired.
Another one I don’t watch for pretty much the same reason, actually.