Alone Australia

The breathing sound effect is extremely annoying. It's played in just about every seen. Not sure whose idea that was but it completely ruins the reality of the situation that these individuals are involved. All of the contestants seem inexperienced and way too into themselves. Not to mention it seemed like 75% of them couldn't even make it within the first 3 days. What a joke. If I hear PTSD one more time I will lose my mind. Then we have the guy who thinks being a Christian is going to make him stronger than the other players, oh brother...get real. I'm a diehard fan of this show and I probably won't be able to make it through this season. Absolutely awful. Do better.

The location after four episodes is awful. They should have been put near the ocean. They seem to have been placed on a lake that has been formed from a dam. They are restricted in ways they can hunt. If there is a next season hopefully they put them in the middle of Australia in a dry area. Give us a different set of survival skills from the other Alone series. Even get a couple of good contestants from the other Alone series to see how they survive in a arid location. The contestants on the first season of Alone Australia are not very likeable. Very little in the way of useful survival skills after four episodes. The editors so far have put too much talking and not enough survival.

I'm loving this show, because it's so entertaining! Big fierce hunter didn't have a clue. Those with the biggest egos do so badly. When the self-professed indigenous fellow didn't recognise a non-native portuguese millipede, I was shouting at the screen. When he actually TASTED it, I nearly fell off my seat laughing. Mate, if it's visible and plentiful, it's because nothing eats it! Equally hilarious was the man chopping endlessly at the bark of a growing tree for one witchetty grub while standing amongst rotting fallen logs, which would be seething with them. And ignoring a butterfly right in front, which would be perfect trout bait. Can't wait for the next episode!

Fan of Alone franchise!..... But the Australia version sadly doesn't cut it. It so far doesn't have great editing or candidates. Lots of random tap outs... and the editing esp in season 2 has them not showing any things like shelter building, net or tool building. It just skips ahead and suddenly youre 2 weeks in and see things they've made or found etc and no footage of it??? You barely even see them making fire, boiling water, eating vegetation.

Producers need to be improved greatly or changed. I don't watch it for reality show back stories, sob stories, missing families, tapping out early. I want to see survival!! Or just anything. They haven't even shown footage of them cutting up wood.... basic stuff. Ugh.

For me, what makes other Alone series compulsive viewing comes down to four key questions: How will the contestants cope with the isolation? How will they deal with the harsh conditions (especially shelter)? How will they deal with the dangerous predators (Hey Bear)? And how will they manage to feed themselves?

While Alone Australia has the first two it does not have the second two. There are no dangerous predators. When I heard one of the producers asked this question in a radio interview their answer was "Well, a Quoll can have a nasty bite" I almost fell off my chair laughing...I mean contestants are hardly going to kept awake in fear as rabid Quolls rage through their campsite at night are they.

But I think the biggest drawback is that they have been dropped in a place with almost no food and then told they are virtually not allowed any way of getting food. No bows and arrows (like in other series) traps are so rigidly restricted by the shows rules that they will be almost useless, the list of allowable animals to eat is tiny compared to those they are not allowed to and they cannot set gill nets or even overnight fishing lines.

Save yourself time and watch one of the other series where the contestents are tested on their ability to survive, not their ability to last the longest without food.