The series begins with the episode "Meet the Billionaire." The teams are divided into men vs. women, and each team picks a "corporate" name: "Versacorp" for the men and "Protege" for the women. Their first task is to run a lemonade stand. The men, for unknown reasons, selected a location near a fish market to run their stand. In the end, the women won, and they continued to do so for the next several episodes. Episode two had the teams design an advertising campaign for the Marquis Jet Card, a service for busy executives to secure rides on corporate jets. Team Versacorp design a pretty good ad campaign, but are outshined by the women, who decide to turn a jet airplane into male genitalia through a series of suggestive photographs.
By episode five, Trump had to do a "corporate reshuffle" and mixed the teams up. Omarosa and Heidi (and everyone else, basically) continued to butt heads.
And so it went, until week 14, when the final four (Bill, Kwame, Amy and Nick) are interviewed by Trump's execs. Nick and Amy are given the boot, and it's down to Bill and Kwame. Bill's task is to manage a golf tournament, while Kwame will manage a Jessica Simpson concert at Trump's Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City. Complications ensue (including flat-out lying from Omarosa, back on Kwame's team, who screws up the logistics for the Jessica Simpson concert) but, in the end, Bill wins, and his prize is to run the construction of a building in Chicago.
Disc five is the "bonus" disc, which is about two hours worth of boring features. There's nothing particularly interesting to be found here, just interviews with Trump, George and Carolyn, as well as a few deleted scenes, audition tapes from the candidates (which was a weird decision to include, as some of the tapes clearly were third or fourth or fifth-generation copies and looked horrible). We also get a music video for that horrible new theme song.
Image quality is good, and is presented in full frame. For audio, you get basic Dolby 2.0, which is fine, but not great. There are no commentary tracks, which is unbelievable, really.
Recommended.
*** out of ****
< !--ED:JH-- >
Article comments