The Apprentice / Amazing Race wrap-ups...

First, The Apprentice. The final episode just felt like another regular episode of the show. And with all the focus on Clint throughout it, I thought he'd win for sure. The producers got me.

Since the very beginning of the season, I was not a fan of Clint. But after talking with Mahsa last week, I was having second thoughts about wanting Brandy to win.

Clint did do an incredible job on the final task and if winning was based only on that task, he should have won. But now that a few days have passed since the finale, I think the right person became The Apprentice winner.

If I had to pick between all the contestants from this season to win, neither one of them would be my pick. But between these two, that's who I would have chosen too.

The ending was almost an afterthought tacked on at the last second. It just wasn't special at all. Especially after learning that two endings were filmed so none of the contestants knew who won either until the show aired.

The Amazing Race finale also wasn't one of the better episodes of the season either. But because it's Amazing Race, it was still a great hour of TV regardless.

The final leg should have contained a lot more challenging things. The only stuff that seemed to matter were figuring out the clue to the TV studio and figuring out the puzzle at the studio (which it looked like the two female teams had no trouble with). I'm wondering if the producers just called the camera and sound people with Jill and Thomas and told them to come right to the finish line after the other two teams checked in (we never saw them arriving at the studio or doing the puzzle).

I wasn't surprised that Nat and Kat won. Based on how they raced from start to finish, I think they deserved it. For Jill and Thomas, it was just horrible luck with a taxi. Maybe they should have done what Nat and Kat did and make sure they had a good driver first. But maybe they tried and we just didn't see that. Either way, I don't think they would have beat Nat and Kat at the puzzle anyways, so it was kind of obvious who was going to win.

So the next season of The Amazing Race is another "favorites" edition with past teams returning. And the next season of The Apprentice will be a celebrity edition. And for the triple whammy here, I'm pretty sure the internet rumors are true and the next season of Survivor will also feature past contestants (we'll know for sure next Sunday during the Survivor finale).

I can't say I'm too excited about any of that, but I'm pretty sure Amazing Race will end up being a good season anyways (the only season I didn't like so far was the "family" team season). As for the other shows, we'll just have to see...