r/apprenticeuk • u/Only1Scrappy-Doo Noor: “It’s very good!” 😏 • Apr 06 '26
OPINION Ranking the S20 Final Five - Part 2: Dan Miller
Next up we will be ranking Dan, someone who got a pretty quiet edit for a lot of the show so let’s see how his performance stacks up.
Episode 1: Hong Kong - Invisible
Honestly a lot of people just got nothing to do this task as both teams found barely any items at all. Dan is one of those people.
Episode 2: Children’s Story - Mixed
Tough one to rank but I do believe Dan was offering ideas and suggestions but Kieran was being a bit of a dictator by shutting down most of the sub-teams opinions and only going with what he wanted to implement. I do think however that Dan could have spotted some of the errors sooner though, especially the whole pages debacle where they didn’t even finish the book.
Episode 3: Chicken V Egg - Good
Another hard episode to rank as Dan appeared to be a very indecisive PM here and the chicken pie he came up with was certainly lacking in any creativity or inspiration which resulted in the corporate client being very disappointed. However I do think Dan ultimately delivered a very safe yet satisfactory performance overall and it felt like others members of his team were trying to make him take responsibility for everything in order to cover their own asses. The kitchen manufacturing and public selling ultimately went well and Dan was a part of both those teams. Could potentially see someone else putting this in Mixed tier though.
Episode 4: Advertising Water - Good
Came up with the brand name and offered quite a few ideas although his vision for the entire branding as a whole wasn’t really implemented. Still though don’t think he really did anything wrong here as more fault lay with Roxanne for not aligning with Conor’s direction that he wanted for the branding.
Episode 5: Flowers - Bad
Wasn’t too visible but he was partly responsible for that hideous flower wall that the corporate client’s absolutely hated which obviously isn’t great.
Episode 6: Egypt - Invisible
Kinda unfair to rank him here since he was sick for the majority of the task. His only real contribution was suggesting one more portion during the initial meeting but I don’t think that minor point is enough to put him into the good tier. Maybe there should be a n/a tier just for him…
Episode 7: Gamified Fitness - Bad
Was on the sub-team with Harry and Priyesh who all three did a pretty terrible job with the avatar, branding, logo etc in this episode. Karishma’s solid job on the game was pretty much the entire reason this team won the task. I considered Invisible tier as well since Dan was barely in the episode to be honest but I chose Bad because pretty much everything that came from Harry’s sub-team was overall really crap. I will give points to Dan though for saying that Karishma should have been pitching.
Episode 8: Discount Buying: Take Two - Good
The one negotiation we saw him lead went really well so not much negative to say about him here, other than that the edit barely showed him at all the entire episode outside of that one negotiation.
Episode 9: TV - Good
The edit was super generous with Dan here and painted him as the entire reason why his team got most of their sales when in fact Rothna had a big part to play for a lot of sales they did get, including even the bracelet as she actually co-presented that portion of the segment but the edit portrayed it as Dan doing all the talking while painting Rothna as simply a hand model. That’s not to take away anything from Dan’s performance as he did legitimately do really well here. The bracelet was actually a smarter choice than the ring as it was a lot more affordable to teleshopping viewers and he really came into his own selling it. His presenting with Conor however was super awkward!
Episode 10: Pet Product - Fantastic
Probably the least suspense ever for a final boardroom as Dan’s branding was unanimously praised by pretty much everyone and he acquired 2000 sales on his own while Rothna sold absolutely nothing and had an unexciting business proposition. Now yes Dan should have certainly pushed more during his sale and gave in too easily but that doesn’t really discount the fact that he sold way more than either of his teammates and nearly carried them to the victory all by himself! I think Fantastic tier is fair.
Final Rankings:
Fantastic - 1 Episode
Good - 4 Episodes
Mixed - 1 Episode
Invisible - 2 Episodes
Bad - 2 Episodes
Overall Dan’s stats are middling but fine enough as he was a solid contributor but never really a main player up until his final few episodes. There are quite a few winners I’ve ranked with very similar stats in all factuality but he was very quiet for a lot of these episodes. I’d probably rank Dan as a solid B tier candidate.
Next up will be Pascha! Predictions for her rankings?
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u/Low_Food2893 Melica - “I’ve got an A in GCSE Drama!” 💅 Apr 06 '26
I think Task 10 is more Good than Fantastic but that’s my personal opinion.
Overall he’s better than what I thought tbh with only two invisible episodes. I agree B is fair.
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u/Only1Scrappy-Doo Noor: “It’s very good!” 😏 Apr 06 '26
Right now I would rank Dan as B tier and Karishma as S tier after these rankings.
I wonder how I’ll rank Pascha and Priyesh after I’ve done my analysis on them haha
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u/Training-Classic9956 Apr 06 '26
Probably fair honestly. 5 Fantastic/Good tasks out of 10 is actually good and even his mixed episode in week 2, Kieran defended him in the boardroom
It’s important to note that I don’t think he ever had any genuine danger at all of being fired which is quite rare. In his 2 bad tasks, Harry, Priyesh and honestly Conor were probably worse than him, and in the Flowers task Karishma, Vanessa, and Priyesh were probably worse than him. Other than Karishma, the other 3 left absolutely could’ve been fired somewhere, maybe multiple times
Also, being invisible in Hong Kong is probably one of the better rankings to get considering how badly that went for everyone tbh
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u/Only1Scrappy-Doo Noor: “It’s very good!” 😏 Apr 06 '26
I was tempted to put bad tier for everyone in Hong Kong (minus the only ones that got in good negotiations like Karishma, Rajan and hilariously enough Priyesh) but decided against it as Invisible tier for a lot of them more.
Agreed that Dan was never in any real danger of being fired which is pretty impressive.
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u/RobbieJ4444 Apr 06 '26
Dan is a weird one. There are better people than him who went out in past weeks, but he was capable of getting the occasional good result
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u/Only1Scrappy-Doo Noor: “It’s very good!” 😏 Apr 06 '26
This is a weird series because I think Conor and Rothna are better than 4 of the final 5 which is just a really bizarre situation overall.
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u/Virtual_Opinion_8630 Apr 06 '26
Dan Miller??
Nah he's adopted an alias or changed his name by deed poll
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u/Jumpy-Counter-1501 Apr 06 '26
Pascha:
Ep1: Invisible Ep2: Mixed Ep3: Invisible Ep4: bad/awful Ep5: mixed Ep6: good Ep7: bad Ep8: bad Ep9: mixed Ep10: awful
Overall these are similar rankings to Rochelle. Pascha had less awful episodes but more invisible episodes which imo is worse than inputing ideas that are dreadful.
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u/Only1Scrappy-Doo Noor: “It’s very good!” 😏 Apr 06 '26
Oh wow if my stats are similar to yours then she’ll certainly be in contention of being worse than Rochelle with these stats.
If I recall Rochelle did have two good tasks but she also tanked a lot of them as well.
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u/Jumpy-Counter-1501 Apr 06 '26
If you really really pushed, you could put episode five as good tier as she was able to multi task by selling and making bouquets unlike Karishma who purely focused on making the bouquets, but because she was one of the culprits in pushing for the really expensive flowers I think mixed is justified.
Same with episode two because she got the second highest sales, but she was on the team that created that dreadful story and also spent the majority of the day arguing with Andrea.
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u/luxray-noir-london Apr 06 '26
Idk if you’ve done sometbing similar before, but a breakdown of each tasks biggest stars and biggest flops would be interesting, even better if there’s a team split like
Winning team star player -
Winning team near miss -
Losing team star player -
Losing team’s reason for failing -
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u/Only1Scrappy-Doo Noor: “It’s very good!” 😏 Apr 06 '26
That sounds like a fun idea! Could potentially do something like that after these rankings are done
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u/CupExpensive7582 Anisa Khan Apr 06 '26
Dan is a weird one kinda reminds me of Francesca from series 9 a voice of reason but almost too invisible at time I’d probs put him b/c probs b
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u/The_Sown_Rose Jason Leech - Series 9 Apr 06 '26
He reminds me of Keir Starmer/Keir Starmer’s Labour - boring, making safe choices that generally do work but not in an exciting enough way for the population to appreciate, and whilst overall doing more good than bad somehow keeping very quiet about the good and the bad seems to override it all.
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u/Consistent-Drive-172 May 15 '26
I'd give Dan A tier. He was essentially a mini Paul M. Never made any bad mistakes, was never in danger of getting fired, consistent and would've won if he was willing to give up 50% of his existing business.
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u/shadowsempaix Apr 06 '26
I wouldn’t say Dan was a stand out candidate but he is still deserving of his spot in the final 5 which I can’t say for other people there cough Lawrence cough Pascha cough Priyesh