I had heard about this show on other Youtube videos so I was curious about the dynamic and how it would work out to leave some women and men on an island and have them fend for themselves. The results I really believe were doctored a little, but it can't be denied that the men fared much better.
The premise of the show is that two groups of men and women were dropped off on uninhabited islands with minimal provisions and it would be up to them to survive one way or another for six weeks. Bear Grylls is an adventurer who has had numerous shows involving surviving out in the wilderness. I started watching the episode in which the women were dropped off on the rough side of an island, there was no beach and they had to swim in and get on the island in a heavily wooded area. The island is a few square miles in size and it seems everyone had a goal of getting to the other side where they might find a beach and water source, or that is what transpired, but the women sure did it the hard way. They spent the first day celebrating and talking about how tough they were only to have it get dark on them and they had no preparation for the night. They never got a fire started and immediately started suffering for it. They then sent a team out to find water and a beach and they were gone for 3-4 days, lost in the woods, running around in circles. The women that were left behind eventually decided to go after them since they were not in any better position there in the woods and eventually they all reunited, like 4-5 days later.
At one point, they were out of water but surprisingly, they found coconuts which they were able to drink from, they also made an emergency call and they were given some fire starting material, they could have literally dies without fire to boil their water to make it safe to drink. They were also starving through most of the show, but along the way they found, probably put in by the production crew, some little pigs, but instead of eating them, they were treating them as pets and giving them the few morsels of food they could find. It took them getting desperate and almost dying to finally give and kill the pigs to eat. They did not attempt to fish until sometime in the last week of the show, which if you're on an island, should be something going on all the time.
I thought it was interesting that the women made it to the final week, I watched almost all the episodes, I couldn't stop, but I got tired at the end, but the women slept on the sand all the way through, never made any type of real shelter and kept relying on the ponchos they had to protect them from the weather.
The men on the other hand, although still suffering and struggling, built a shelter structure, found the beach within a day, and ate an alligator, and fish on a lot of the days as at least one of the guys was a good fisherman and then they figured out how to use some netting to capture fish on a larger scale.
People complain about all the litter we make, but if we were to ever end up on an uninhabited island, I would be happy for all the empty plastic bottles that seem to just wash ashore and are always good for different things. They used them to store clean water, and they even used them to construct a floating raft, which I thought was creative. I didn't even know this was a series, I thought it would be one short movie or show, but I ended up watching about ten episodes in one sitting, it was entertaining. The best comment I read on Youtube was that someone thought the women were doing a parody of a survival show because they were so bad at it, it almost seemed intentional.
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