The recently resurrected (though probably only for one season) ABC series The Mole is down to the final three contestants. Last night they performed their final missions and next week we'll discuss who the mole actually is. The big problem? People just don't seem to care. The ratings are not good, and, as is the case with too many reality shows, at least one of the remaining contestants is hugely annoying.
In this case, the culprit is Nicole, but it's not as easy as just identifying her. The real question becomes, as this is The Mole that we're talking about, if she is the mole. Nicole has been incredibly obnoxious and certainly the most annoying player throughout the competition, but if she's the mole is that a mitigating factor? What if that's not her real personality, what if she's just hamming it up as a part of her sabotage?
Let me first say that I don't think she's the mole, at least, I hope she isn't. She has repeatedly tried to stop the rest of the players from completing tasks, but she sabotages in the most obvious of ways. She says things that everyone knows can't possibly be true as a way of slowing down the group on missions.
The problem, if she is the mole, is that she fails at these terribly unsubtle subterfuges. One could argue that she's actually operating on two levels, that she's trying to ruin tasks by doing obvious things (which she purposely gets caught at) and that she's actually succeeding in ways that are harder to identify.
While possible, I just don't buy that as a notion. I don't believe she's that smart, I don't think she can operate on more than one level, I don't think she has it in her. Which means that if she is the mole, she just might be the worst mole ever. Consequently, I'm hoping she's not the mole, it would just be a disappointing way for the show to go out.
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