Post by Admin on Nov 6, 2013 17:47:56 GMT -4
THE SHARKS ARE IN THE WATER..............Every Friday Night on ABC at 9:PM ET.
Talk about the TV show that has everything. What series has more mysteries thrills than CSI; serves up more convoluted twists than Revenge?; showcases more intriguing characters than Jersey Shore?; has more money on the line than Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?; displays more cutthroat action than Survivor?; is more heartstring-tugging than Extreme Home Makeover?; and showcases more talent than American Idol? Answer: Shark Tank, the show where aspiring entrepreneurs seek funding from a panel of gazillionaire business masters.
The show is terrific and inspiring, with lots of lessons to be learned about entrepreneurship, inventing, pitching projects and business in general. Sometimes it’s frustrating that the colorful panel just doesn’t “get” the entrepreneur and his or her vision, and other times you’re yelling back at the TV screen when they do take on a project that you think is ridiculous (hello, Draw Me a Cat). It’s that schizophrenic unpredictability, added to the incredible anti-chemistry of the panel, that makes for gripping TV.
It seems everyone has a dream, and Shark Tank helps many fulfill theirs. The panel—likable, decent but easily frustrated Robert Herjavek, real estate mogul Barbara Corcoran (who I’d make a deal with in a minute), “the undertaker” Kevin O’Leary, FUBU’s Daymond John, and the return of last season’s spectacular addition, Mark Cuban. My advice, folks: If Mark Cuban wants your first-born (which he’s come very close to asking for), take the deal. Lori Greiner of QVC has been alternating with Corcoran (what, room for only one woman?) this season, and if your product is right for her, jump at whatever she offers. She can make you rich so easily.
The sharks can be really tough. Well, more like really mean. Not mean-spirited like Donald Trump on Apprentice, but brutally honest tough. They don’t suffer fools (except for this past episode, which I’ll get to), and they won’t let anyone get away easy—they’re sharks, they want blood. But it’s more than likely they’ll make you very rich in return. The phrase, “Don’t be greedy” only applies to the entrepreneurs, not the sharks. Sometimes it’s painful how greedy the panel can be.
And at times they can also be inconsistent. Earlier this season, a young man, Donny McCall, came in with a foldable truck rack that made a lot of sense. He dropped all the right terminology—he talked about God, America and his broken town that needed a financial boost, which he hoped to provide by opening a factory there. He made Herjavek cry, he was so passionate about keeping his production in America. But in the end, the sharks would not have it—it’s too expensive to produce in America, they said, and McColl’s “stubbornness” about not farming his work out oversees ended up costing him a deal. The following week, another person came in with a product that he produced in America, and the sharks praised him and offered a deal.
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