This is a very odd show. A survivalist named Creek Stewart recants stories of survival (a couple and their infant son are stranded in the middle of nowhere in blizzard conditions; a woman is the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Vietnamese jungle, etc.) and shows the viewer what to do to in order to make it out alive under such unimaginable conditions. But what I can't get around is the fact that the actual survivors, who retell their heart wrenching stories, survived their ordeals without any knowledge of Stewart's expertise. At one point he catches a lizard and roasts it over a fire. He doesn't explain how to build a fire in the middle of the Vietnamese jungle during the rainy season while suffering from the horrendous injuries incurred in a plane crash including a fractured hip. I guess, depending on your own personal travel plans, his advice on how to build a bamboo shelter in the middle of the Amazon jungle might prove useful.
Review of SOS: How to Survive
