For me, this woman had a fake "high class" lifestyle life before (she wasn't part of the lifestyle, she was reporting on it).
Then she wanted to "imagine" to still be part of that lifestyle, and her weak husband allowed her to play around with this. This is happening all the time, with the wife's of well financed men opening boutiques, "art stores" and other playgrounds to keep them occupied. Maybe sometimes someone with class enters your store, but most of the time this is wishful thinking.
Maybe this was successful in Australia, but why did they move then? You simply don't move a successful business on a hunch. She had other options, like creating a satellite office. It looks like she tried to "belong" to the high class in Australia, and it didn't work out. So she tried California instead.
She is probably a little delusional. Yes, this episode was setup as the walk away episode. Marcus must have known that she isn't interested to make money, she wanted to drink tea with stars.
If you could buy yourself in, many millionaires would try that. It doesn't work.
Her total disinterested, tired appearance at the end was the final nail in this.
Marcus ideas doesn't bring her closer to the imagined Hollywood brunch next Sunday. He had to go.
reply
share
Theoden_of_ODU
8 years ago
Though I grew up relatively well off, I just married into "money." You can pick out these kinds of people pretty easily. People who care deeply about appearances and are always concerned about what "important people" may possibly think about them. They live in a sad, little world.
This lady obsessed about her husband's pedigree (hint, no one cares if one of his ancestors was knighted or whatever it was) and clearly bought into the phony lifestyle tripe that people in her previous line of work loves to shovel to the masses.
I feel bad for her, if only as far as that I recognize that she's delusional.
I can certainly see that the producers of this show figured out that she would be impossible to work with, but I don't buy that it was intended as a "walk away" episode (or whatever someone wants to call it). Even with the lies about the fiances and inventory and deception on shelving palacement, the episode went on. Perhaps he would have called it quits anyway - but she's the one who killed the deal. And guess what? It doesn't really matter since not every deal is successful.
His idea of expanding the pet care line and putting it in stores was probably the single best idea this company will ever see. The problem is, the pet line isn't "elegant" enough and neither was the "Clean Evolution" re-brand - even though the product immediately conveys some information immediately.
While nothing is a certainty in business, I can certainly say that staying on the same course they were will lead to Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
No, not the mind probe!
reply
share
Stigger
8 years ago
Even with the lies about the fiances and inventory and deception on shelving palacement, the episode went on.
The episode continued until the scatter-brained owner failed to investigate her missing inventory as requested by Marcus. If you want to believe this episode was genuine, then you'd believe his request was a legitimate reason to continue (and her failure and subsequent split were legitimate). If you want to believe this episode was largely staged, then you'd believe his request was insincere and just for show.
Perhaps he would have called it quits anyway - but she's the one who killed the deal.
Marcus walked away after the excessively-stupid woman failed to fulfill his request in a timely manner (and showed no desire to find the missing inventory).
And guess what?
chicken butt
While nothing is a certainty in business, I can certainly say that staying on the same course they were will lead to Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
Good! Hopefully she'll self-deport.
reply
share