Positive note: the concept of 10 people surviving as long as they can by themselves (and no camera crew) with only 10 items, is the best premise of a survival show currently. Giving them 10 items makes it a bit more reasonable in giving someone a chance to survive a long time. To me, any survival show that has any sort of camera crew (non tripod or non POV shots) are immediately unreliable in their realism. So it's good this show relies on the survivors filming themselves.
Pain points: it's overly sensationalized, cheesy editing and ridiculous cliffhangers at every commercial break. The latest season in Labrador has every promo commercial showing "polar bear region! Oh my!" with clips implying someone will encounter one. Well, the whole season, no one even saw a black bear in person let alone a polar bear.
Latest season: I was excited tor Labrador, and sometimes a season just depends on the people themselves, but this one was just boring. The last few remaining contestants were not "surviving" by any means. It was just a competition of who could starve the longest. Literally, the winner of the show had decided to "fast" the remaining 12 days.
Further, I can't completely blame them. They had to abide by local regulations meaning they could only fly fish in the river. Well, only being able to 'fly fish' in a survival scenario is ridiculous especially being somewhere like Labrador where catching fish could make all the difference. So they were forced to rely on hunting grouse and squirrel only... So, no wonder they starved. (A couple people did catch fish but it was short lasted).
So, if you want to give us a show of people in a competition of survival not starvation, at least put them somewhere where local regulations are not going to extremely limit their ability to get resources.
And showing more of them crafting, hunting, fishing, rather than wasting episode time in pointless recaps and dumb cliffhangers could really make this show an iconic one rather than just "the best of mediocre survival shows" that relies on a good premise and cheap, sensationalist promotion.
Pain points: it's overly sensationalized, cheesy editing and ridiculous cliffhangers at every commercial break. The latest season in Labrador has every promo commercial showing "polar bear region! Oh my!" with clips implying someone will encounter one. Well, the whole season, no one even saw a black bear in person let alone a polar bear.
Latest season: I was excited tor Labrador, and sometimes a season just depends on the people themselves, but this one was just boring. The last few remaining contestants were not "surviving" by any means. It was just a competition of who could starve the longest. Literally, the winner of the show had decided to "fast" the remaining 12 days.
Further, I can't completely blame them. They had to abide by local regulations meaning they could only fly fish in the river. Well, only being able to 'fly fish' in a survival scenario is ridiculous especially being somewhere like Labrador where catching fish could make all the difference. So they were forced to rely on hunting grouse and squirrel only... So, no wonder they starved. (A couple people did catch fish but it was short lasted).
So, if you want to give us a show of people in a competition of survival not starvation, at least put them somewhere where local regulations are not going to extremely limit their ability to get resources.
And showing more of them crafting, hunting, fishing, rather than wasting episode time in pointless recaps and dumb cliffhangers could really make this show an iconic one rather than just "the best of mediocre survival shows" that relies on a good premise and cheap, sensationalist promotion.