Au pays des Cajuns: L'invasion des pythons

I really enjoy Troy, his Sons and the base gator swamp people. But, Zack is such a crybaby. He screams like a child at the simplest things. And when it came to grabbing the snakes he constantly tried to pass the grab to someone else. Nevertheless, the show is fun to watch. I hope that they decide to bring more of the original swamp people on the serpent show and a whole series of episodes with just Troy's family would be pretty cool. Having Willie on the serpent show would be really interesting since he does a lot of snake grabbing on the original show. I would bet he would really be diving into wrestling those serpents.

Why do they advertise as "last day of the season" when there is absolutely no season on Burmese pythons in Florida? It is an invasive species which should never have happened except for idiots who brought the snakes into this country and then didn't take measures to insure that they didn't escape from their custody. It should have been criminalized to have ownership of them in the first place. They need to be hunted, shot and eradicated by any means necessary. They've all but killed the native species in the Everglades. Once a species gets out of control the usual measures of "humane" capture shouldn't apply. The population of pythons in the Everglades should be ZERO.

It shows these snakes weighing 100s of pounds and it's all incorrect. I say this because it shows one person hold two or three bags of snakes at a time and if the weights were right that person would be holding 200 to 300 pounds in one hand. If any of them can do that I really want to see it done so get out 200 lbs of dead weight and show that person pick it up then I will believe the weights. Yall did this on the first year of episodes on the gator hunting and yall were wrong then to saw will supposedly pick up a 250 pound gator with one hand yea right. So stop with the weights or otherwise prove the weights by weighing the snakes on tv.

Love the show!! One suggestion, why don't you use a branch with a fork on it to pin the head down to catch the snakes so you don't get bitten.

First, as others have said, the weights are total nonsense. One dude walks around with a "135lb" snake wrapped around his arm. Uh huh, sure.

Second, probably more importantly, I think the entire execution of this show is totally fictional.

For example: On one episode, two of the guys go to a "bomb shelter deep in the glades".

Okay, so that shelter is actually in Fort Pierce, far north of the glades, and is actually about 20yds from the Florida Turnpike. It was an AT&T communications bunker (you can see "communications" above the door) and was sold sometime between 2013 and 2017 to a data center startup called "Data Shelter" (google it, they have a website with pics and everything). So could this bunker have snakes in it? Technically, sure, but I am 99% sure those snakes were put there for those guys to find. Additionally, the Data Shelter company is clearly peddling a vaporware product as it's been 3+ years since they "announced" what they were doing and it's clearly still full of random crap from the cold war, standing water and other stuff you don't see in an active commecial construction zone, much less anything resembling a "data center" (I would know, believe me).

How about another example: In one episode two of the guys have their snake bags "stolen" by mysterious strangers in a buggy who then drop the bags and run when Dude 1 comes running up at them. This is on a trail that is supposedly abandoned and those two dudes had just encountered a random stranger in a buggy who gave them a "hot tip" on where to find a special bounty. The entire thing reeks of being semi-scripted and plays more like a video game scenario than anything that would happen in real life.

Anyway, it's still mildly entertaining (the yelling "OHH!" every time a snake tries to bite them is a little annoying), it just isn't real.