Stylish but barely mediocre overall

It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

I quickly lost interest because the first 30 minutes of every episode is a replay of the previous episode. So if you watch several episodes in a row, say four one hour episodes you only get an hour and a half of new, unwatched material. They continually replay over and over the same video and then five minutes of commercials, then replay the same video from ten minutes ago, then commercials, then two minutes of new video. The whole thing, just playing the new video, is probably only two hours long but they stretch it into weeks with this method

I have watched all episodes of this show and highly recommend it. One thing I am confused about in the current season 3 is the fact that info about the show mentions it is still staged on Vancouver Island, but while watching the show it is quite apparent they are all on the shores of a lake in Patagonia. Why is that I wonder? They are all catching lake trout, there is no falling and rising tide or any of the sea life associated with the ocean. None of them have gill nets for catching fish, which the first two season participants had and used to their great advantage. Other than that, it is well worth the time to watch this show. I await each episode to see what happens next as I find it to be a great learning experience to add to my own knowledge of being out in the bush.

I binge watched both seasons. My comments focus on the more successful contestants (i.e., the final 4 or 5.FOOD = #1 issue by far I believe every contestant who tapped out was nearing starvation. #9 had lost 32# after 60 days. #8 after his kayak proved it was not effective at producing food. #10 (winner) went from the verge of collapse and tapping out to "I could last a lot longer" when he found crabs to harvest.CLOTHING & CLEANLINESS? If I wear the same fleece top every day in my house & yard, it starts to look grubby after a week or two. It would look ratty after a couple weeks of backpacking. Did the weekly medical & battery visits include a change of freshly washed identical clothes?Ditto on personal hygiene - I didn't study this, but I don't recall any scenes where it looked like people had dirty faces or grubby fingernails. I was impressed by what the contestants did, whether they got clean clothes or not. That's just a curiosity issue.I'd like to think that I might have been like Mike: create a spectacular home and then give up out of boredom after one month. I fantasize that I'd have been like Niclole: joyful attitude throughout, even as she had to quit because she was starving with no prospects of that changing. (PS - she's brilliant, but it seems she might have stockpiled food, like smoked salmon and greens.)

Absolutely extraordinary! A thrilling landscape and a formidable challenge for the participants: survive in the Pacific Northwest wilderness.First of all, it seems a little risky as a TV show as it wouldn't be impossible for someone to die doing this, not impossible at all. The chances of someone being hurt would be highly likely, in my opinion. The location they use in this season is the spectacular Pacific Northwest, an area I know pretty well having lived in Seattle for eight years and I spent a lot of time in the mountains in Washington and British Columbia. Bushwhacking through these woods is extremely difficult and the weather (I think they began the show in late September or October) is pretty wretched as you will see. Below are a few of my thoughts as I watched the episodes.I went through Air Force Survival School in eastern Washington (Spokane) and it sucked, mostly because it was the coldest winter in school history (just my luck). I'm not saying that I would do well in this sort of thing but I guarantee I'd last more than a few days. Dudes are crying after a couple of days—one guy the first night like the fat guy in Shawshank. I could go without water or food for a few days without missing a beat. "Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!" Grow up and grow a pair. The most embarrassing thing is the "rescue team" that snags the very early quitters, as if they are being rescued. No, you aren't being rescued; you're giving up almost immediately."Nobody knows what it's like out here except the ten guys doing it." Dustin (quit after 6 days). I think that a vast Indian population who lived there for centuries would beg to differ.Stop trying to build a canoe, dude. Make a decent house in which you can sit out a mild Northwest storm without crapping yourself and crying. What a bunch of crybabies. Seriously, Crying? On camera?"I did it. I made a boat." Fantastic, how does this help you survive? And how the hell does he have time to build a canoe? To do that he obviously isn't having trouble getting food and water in which case one would ask why he feels the need to build a damn canoe. I think that after three weeks you could walk out of there with your head up. That's a long time and shows that you could probably go longer it you had to do it. By episode 8 they are into their fifth week in the wilderness, time enough to have serious problems with hunger. Sam was the big surprise for me because he looked like some Dungeons and Dragons video game punk and he hung in there. Sam—mouseboy—seems to be putting way too much effort into trapping tiny rodents which present a small pay-off if you succeed and would hardly provide the calories you need. Roasting it wouldn't be the best choice, calorically speaking, to prepare food. Boil it in water to retain every bit of fat. The same goes for fish and shellfish.In this area if you aren't fishing you are wasting your time. Mushrooms would also be a likely and abundant source of carbohydrates. Shellfish would seem to be abundant and easy to snatch. This part of the world is lousy with mussels and oysters but I didn't see anyone making much use of this resource. A couple of them brought along a bow and arrows and a slingshot (Sam) yet we see only one half-hearted attempt by Sam to hunt. There is only one bit of film of him letting lose a single arrow. They couldn't kill a bird? I'm just not seeing enough food production from any of them to sustain life. Allan was the only one who seemed even remotely successful in getting a few fish but they never showed him catching anything in his big fish trap. Meanwhile Lucas is spending his time making a lute? Not the best use of your time when you're slowly starving to death. I would spend every waking minute getting food, water, and making my shelter the best it could be. None of them brought a shovel. Maybe it wasn't on the list but it seems like it would have been a valuable tool. If it wasn't available to bring along they could have made one for clam and mussel digging and other chores around the camp. Here is what the last four packed in (the other six who left early were complete chumps so I didn't bother with their lists):Allan 1. Saw 2. Axe 3. Sleeping bag 4. Large 2-quart pot 5. Ferro rod 6. Water bottle/canteen 7. 300 yards single filament line with 25 assorted hooks 8. Small gauge gill net 9. 3.5lb wire 10. KnifeSam 1. 12×12 ground sheet tarp 2. Axe 3. Sleeping bag 4. Large 2-quart pot 5. Ferro rod 6. 300 yards of single filament line with 25 assorted hooks 7. Bow and 6 arrows 8. Slingshot 9. Extra emergency rations 10. KnifeIn the end the best man won, and the funniest man, and the most articulate man, and the most philosophical man. Alan just seems like a great guy.