If you've never read Lord of the Flies, you can get a rough approximation of it by watching the women's team on The Apprentice.

Week one, a woman named Stacie had an odd moment with a Magic 8 Ball. It was an unfortunate capper for her budding reputation as a loose cannon, and gave the other women something to focus on. They not only met as a group to agree on getting her eliminated, they also built up the Magic 8 Ball thing into some sort of serious mental episode, a breathtaking leap of logic for a group which, as far as I can tell, has no psychological training. Even more interesting was that Trump bought it and fired Stacie, though he was likely just getting rid of a distraction.

Now, of course, with no one thing to focus on, the team is now busy going after itself. The boardroom selections this week were clearly personal, and at times the post-challenge dialog seemed lifted right off of a middle-school playground. The producers must be praying for a hair-pulling, slap-happy cat fight, and they just may get one from this group. Woe to anyone who has to work with them (or worse, be managed by them) in real life.

At this point, the only woman who looks like she could win is the one who went over to the men's side when they swapped a teammate before the first challenge.

Thinking about the show itself, am I the only person who would like to see more of the challenge itself? I get the sense that the footage of the competition is tailored to meet the results and subsuquent boardroom session, which doesn't help me get a good feel for the contestants or pick out other issues or problems that the producers didn't bother to show.