ANGARITA MANAGEMENT: Another extremely strong Survivor episode and gratifying finale, this time long, long after a lot of us (me) resigned ourselves to the thought that the show would never again be anything but predictable, boring, and marginally more interesting than watching nothing at all. For the second time this season, we had a tribal council where the producers and editors somehow turned a tribal council in which there was absolutely no doubt about what was going to happen into a nail-biting, emotionally resonant scene. And once again, we got that most reliable of all Survivor traditions -- the one where the jurors, given an opportunity to ask one question of the finalists, proudly build little altars to their vanity and self-pity without for a moment realizing how idiotic and childish they look.
The Sue Hawk Memorial Prize this season goes to Harvard Law grad Alex Angarita, who, it turns out, apparently was trained by half of the lawyers I've had opposing me in my career. Yelling, refusing to let the other person talk, being unable to anticipate the answer that obviously was going to be given because it differed from Alex's unconsidered opinion of what the answer should have been, getting visibly upset by that answer, and then giving a pissy speech that had literally no content -- that's bad. But the kicker was the smug smile that suggested that he thought, contrary to all reason and sense, that as long as his voice filled the darkness, he somehow must have won the point. People of the Internets -- Alex Angarita is a bad lawyer. If you hire him, you will regret it.
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