The Junior Apprentice

I was determined not to watch it, Juniou Apprentice, but I sneaked a view and couldn't turn it off. Of course it's the same format as the adult version though Sir Alan has now become Lord Sugar; and of course the teams are given difficult tasks to perform which, true to form, they do badly; and of course Lord Sugar at the end sends one the group packing with his index finger pointing at the trembling-with-fright individual while he says "You're fired". Of course, of course, of course: but that's one of the pleasures of the show: it's satisfyingly familiar. This time though Lord Sugar is not quite so nasty to these young would-be apprentices as Sir Alan was to their adult counterparts.
There is, of course (again), always the bitch amoung the group and there is the cryer and the one who likes to take over.... but this time they have an artiste in the shape of Adam.
He has proved himself already to be a distinctive personality since he is already charged with being a mysoginist: "men are better at business because of their physical capabilities". I don't think that's mysoginistic; it is illogical - what have physical capabilities got to do with business? Unless you're in the business, say, of selling sacks of coal. But I don't think he meant that sort of business.
The fact is that, mysoginist or not, he's a genius. He doesn't know he is but he is. The reason? He managed to talk his way out of being fired by a speech that was almost Chekovian. There he was having led his team to a no-sales-at-all disaster, about to be fired - and should have been at that point - when he made a speech that was - no not Chekovian, Becketian. "Why should I not fire you Adam?" Lord Sugar asked him expecting (I could read his expression) a trite reply which would have sealed his fate. Not any triteness from our Adam but a sort of action replay of his life until then: how he had left school with his parents wishing him not to, how he set up his own business and how he had a turnover in 6 months of £25000 (or whatever), how he'd work his fingers to the bone to become Lord Sugar's apprentice and so on. It was masterly. He'd saved himself from what seemed evident firing. The girl at his side, quite a capable young woman, unfairly went. Lord Sugar had, I think, seen something of himself in this young Cicero.
The scene reminded me a bit of the last speech in Uncle Vanya, but moreso of a real-life meeting of a nurse with a slightly deranged man who had been waiting hours to be seen in a documentary film, famous a few decades back, called I believe "Hospital". The man approached the nurse and told her what he thought of his being there, left to fend for himself..... I can't recall the details but it was, like Adam's, an example of a person desperate to communicate with someone "out there" but failing. Except that Adam didn't fail. He won't last long; it doesn't matter, he's already had his moment of glory.