Outlast : Au bout de nous-mêmes

This show had great potential, but if there's absolutely no rules or guidelines to the game, that ruins it. If they're allowed to take my things, I should be able to go over to their camp, jaw them, and recoup my things. Contestants were put in this weird predicament where they essentially had to either abandon their morality or just let the bad guy win and flare out.

If they do another season they need more challenges that give unforeseen advantages, more twists, and less of an ability to completely end another person/team's game via theft or destruction of their survival homestead/materials.

I'm up to episode 5, but don't think I'll go any further. As one of the competitors says before they decide to leave - 'this isn't the show I signed up for'.

It's either fake and mostly staged (which it certainly feels like), or it's real and pretty unethical on the part of the producers.

Why? Because they thought it might make good tv to invite a few 'criminal sociopaths' (as one of the competitors perfectly describes them) along for the ride. So you have around 3 groups of people who seem like decent enough folk, just trying to survive in the freezing wilderness....and another group of people who are absolutely awful. Bullying the other teams, stealing their gear etc. People who would surely be in and and out of prison in the 'real world'. The neighbours from hell. Don't tell me the producers didn't know they'd act like this.

Or they're all amateur actors, and it's staged. Some of the 'performances' are certainly hammy enough, and there's some awfully convenient 'coincidences' and unlikely occurrences. In which case, why waste your time?

After the disaster of season one, and the vile behaviour from Jill and Amber, I was hesitant to start season two, but despite a few unlikable characters, Bayo the thief, Bri the useless deserter, Emily the patronising wannabe, there were still a lot of players that were worth watching and rooting for.

Loved team Delta wish they had won, I know the money would have gone a long way to helping their family's, and while the Texas boys were fun to watch, I feel they are just going to spend their winnings on frivolously things.

Delta really made this season and were a pleasure to watch. They should be so proud of themselves. Money isn't everything they played such a honourable game. In my eyes they were the winners. God bless each of them.

I've long been a fan of survival series of all types. I was really excited by the idea of Outlast since it takes place in Alaska, and I expected that it would provide the opportunity to learn techniques of survival in one of the most difficult places to live primitively on earth. How cool, right? Yet this series is not about surviving the elements -- there were no discussion on fire building, shelter building, foraging, fishing, or much anything else survival related.

The series is an example of the worst of human behavior -- it is a foray into the evil that some humans will do to others out of greed, which includes -- theft, destruction, deceit, bullying, and mockery. The aggressive gameplay and manipulation was not fun to watch, it merely underscored how some humans can rationalize the harm they do to others -- and how others within their orbit will passively accept, resign without challenging, or turn a blind eye to the misdeeds to avoid confrontation.

I have to wonder if the creators of this show encouraged the behavior perpetrated by the private investigator from Kentucky? This woman has such a heinous unlikable aspect, yet apparently her underhanded behavior was completely acceptable by the producers of this series. It didn't violate the rules, so all good, right? No.

We were intrigued by the show. Who could survive the elements, be smart, support their teammates. Jill only became more annoying and showed that she couldn't survive on her own. Ruined the show because it changed. There is no way she has kids or is married. If she does and is, she won't and shouldn't be. Her kids would be embarrassed and mortified to have to have her talk on parents day. Her firm is a private investigator of one because she'd never have any loyalty. Her teammates are ignorant followers. She felt worse about a squirrel. Likely her investigative partner because no human would work with her. Producers, initiate a few societal rules so ignorants like those three on alpha can't ruin future games. You lost a lot of viewers.