Any of you watch reality shows?
Specifically, the outdoors survivor type shows. I enjoyed “Dual Survivor” the most, until they began to have issues with posers and started switching team members every few weeks. They had one guy who claimed to have been an Army Ranger and wasn’t, and another who claimed to have bee a Marine Combat Diver, and wasn’t. Don’t these people check resumes? I’m not into all the tired azz Doctor / Lawyer / Cop dramas.
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The occasional Hell’s Kitchen episode, because I like to see Gordon Ramsay screaming at idiots.
The occasional Bear Grylls episode, because I like to see him drinking his own piss.
There is a Youtube show, on Youtube, called “Man at Arms: Reforged”, where they show blacksmiths making bladed weapons from movies, tv and games, that I watch sometimes.
I used to watch Grylls, until I found out he had spent a night in a hotel, when he was supposed to be in the wilds of the Kalahari. And he does stuff that an ordinary person would be hard put to do. All that rappelling out of crevasses and stuff. I wouldn’t go anywhere near a damn crevasse, if I could avoid it. Not everyone one in a survival situation is ex – British or American Special Forces.
I used to watch “Naked and Afraid” a few years ago. A little vicarious fantasy escape that reminded me of my adventurous youth.
Some really hard and miserable situations to be endured. Otherwise no, I don’t watch TV, these episodes were just something I came across on youtube. I do like true adventure and survival stories.
@Coloma Myself as well, I just get aggravated when I watch a show that is supposed to be raw survival, then I find out the guy walks onto an interstate and gets a ride from a Vegas showgirl in a convertible, five seconds after the cameras are switched off. The poser crap doesn’t bother me too much, if some guy wants to pad his resume and the dummies at Discovery buy into it, oh well.
I watch “Naked and Afraid,” mostly because I really enjoy looking at naked men.
Also, “Survivor” and “Big Brother” are among my guilty pleasures. I’ve very aware that there’s no such a thing as reality TV; each program has a large staff of writers, and what we see is heavily manipulated and edited. But, those two programs happen to be very entertaining.
Yeah, @NomoreY_A my wife and I have always thought it would be interesting to take Grylis out on the Marufo Vega trail or on top of Mesa de Anguila in mid-July to see how well he did.
I try from time to time but like most of the other shows on TV these days they spend more than half the time recapping what has happened up to that point and there is very little new content per show. I would guess that in a 30 minute show there is actually no more than ten minutes of footage and the rest is recap and commercials. So I usually give up for a couple of months, then forget and try again.
I did like the one with the two guys, one long haired, usually shoeless and intent on doing things in a minimalist/do-no-harm manner and the other a gung-ho, former military, I am lord of my domain type person. Is that still around?
@rojo Yuppers, that’s the one I was referring to. But I think they’re on hiatus because the gung ho guy got called out by a veteran on another survival show, who says he never completed Combat Diver School, USMC, thus making him a poser. And he also got in trouble for killing a dog. The barefoot minimalist guy, Cody something or other, had his own issues, I thnk he got canned for refusing to wear shoes, which Discovery honchos thought posed a liability for them. I thought it was a bad idea myself, but he seems to know his shit better than those other clowns.
The Cody dude is an expert in indigenous peoples and cultures from around the world, and he really knows his stuff. Kind of a hippie type, but impressive in his skills. In one episode, this guy built a cool shelter with a hole in the roof, which made it possible to build the fire inside the shelter. The other guy was running around shirtless (probably trying to titillate the female viewers) and talking shit about force protection. Stupid useless ass hat.
Well, I liked Cops. I also watch Judge Judy.
As for the outdoor reality things, I could never ignore the fact that these people had cameras on them the whole time, and an entire back up team off stage. The places they go have to be pre determined so they know the cameras can get there too.
@Dutchess_III I like Cops as well. Possibly the only reality show that actually IS real. But Judge Judy is Mean!
If I had a choice of going to the calaboose, or going before Judy, hell. Just cuff me and take me away. I’ll take my chances, thank ya kindly.
@NomoreY_A She’s usually on the right side for the right reasons. There have only been a few times I’ve disagreed with her.
No I haven’t, @ragingloli .
I’d have put that more diplomatically, maybe, you should watch it, or you might enjoy it. But, do it? Uh – I’m gonna hide under a pool table, and try to be a good witness. LOL
I recently watched a show called ” I Shouldn’t be Alive.” A re-enactment type of true story series that showcases all sorts of crazy and dire misadventures of people, that should be nominated for the Darwin awards. One episode was hilarious to me. This guy buys a 2000 lb. commercial raft and heads out solo down the Colorado river in Arizona.
He shoots, headlong, down a 50 foot, raging waterfall, somehow manages to not fall out but then his raft hits a boulder and flips and of course, it is too heavy for him to flip it back over. It then floats away while he is calling after it, like it is a dog, ” nooo, come back, come baaack!” LMAO! Then he proceeds to try and scale a steep, rocky, canyon wall in his flip flops, shorts and life jacket.
He gets about halfway up and boulder cuts loose crushing his foot and he back flips down the mountainside into the river. LOL He then is limping along, barely able to walk, as the night time temps plummet to near freezing and all he is his shorts, flip flops and life vest. OMG…it goes on from there, but you get the jist, the guy was just a complete imbecile. haha
Too bad he can’t just drink his own pee, start a fire by rubbing two fingers together, and then walk on out to a conveniently located Hilton parking lot. Survivor shows show us that all the time.
I haven’t had a TV since 2005. I prefer reality over reality shows. And I firmly believe that I have less of a propensity to be pessimistic toward the future because I am not spoonfed the daily psycho bullshit that most people gobble up like addicts through their TVs and other media. Get outside and play. Interact for chrissakes.
I do get out, and when I do, I notice that half or more of the people I see, even if just out walking the dog, are glued to their smart phones. How is that any different from watching TV? An electronic device is an electronic device, still spoon-feeding people that Psycho bull shit. Just via a slightly different delivery system.
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PRECISELY. As I said, ”...TVs and other media”.
I stopped watching reality tv shows when I noticed “story writers” in the production credits. That was 10 years ago.
I watch any sort of TV if someone else turns it on and I have reason to be in the room at the time. In other words it doesn’t hold my attention very long.
But because hubby likes some reality shows means I ending up watching some of them too.
I liked Man Woman Wild. Those guys were funny.
@snowberry Agreed, and I think the guy on that show was a retired Special Forces guy, the one who called out the dude on Dual Survivor for lying about his military training. Big controversy there.
@ragingloli From what I heard, his C.O. at combat diving school would disagree.
No, I watch little TV, and I have never wanted to see what is called “Reality” shows. I think they are surely boring. I like a few drams some friends have shown me on DVD, e.g. “Nikita”, “Birds Of Prey”, “Witchblade’, etc.
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