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Apprentice Recap
Our long national nightmare is over; The Apprentice three-hour finale is finally behind us. Despite The Donald's hype ("not really sure who I'm going to pick this year") the outcome really wasn't much of a surprize. So to stretch this out into an elongated spectacle was cruel and un-necessary. As The New York Times review says "Whoever decided that an extra hour would be a good thing should be Mr. Trump's next layoff."

Please, no more Omarosa....ever. And despite the rather photogenic casts of the first two seasons, it looks like season three is charting new ground. The two teams ("The Booksmarts" & "The Streetsmarts") both look like they contain some rather plain looking (read: ugly) people. And after letting two of my favorite contenders get to almost the end (Kevin, this year and Troy, last year) and firing both of them for the the opposite reasons (too much schooling/too little schooling) this structure has me scratching my head and making me think that perhaps the show has Jumped The Shark, although the votes on this site don't seem to reflect that, even though the comments do.