Seuls en mer : le radeau de la discorde

The actor / would-be host, Nate Boyer, has assembled 9 people for an alleged social experiment in cooperation for the greater good. The premise is an old well worn one studied many times to see if the participants will pull together or if they will sdoggedly pursue their needs or desires.

Assembled are some of the most odious characters you will find in the murky backwaters of social media & Truth Social (lol).

I changed channels in the first 20 minutes when one of the cretins wanted to spend their very limited funds not on food but on ice (really!) and another wanted to spend the remainder on comfort items.

The concept is a decent one.

I honestly do not know why there's all these references to the 1973 INTERNATIONAL crew. This is a crew of Americans, clearly. And it's not 1973. The continuous references to 1973 are pretty meaningless and ill-placed. If this were a more international crew, and the goal wasn't a competition for money, then perhaps.. but that's a different show.

They may have gathered a collection of people with polarizing opinions.. but that sure is not visible in the episodes. All the episodes show is pretty much how Russell decides things need to be, and all the others are afraid to contradict him. That single casting has made the series pretty pathetic.

Merely because Russell isn't afraid to have his opinion heard.. everyone else just shuts up and lets him decide their fate. The problem with this series is the lack of a backbone by everyone other than Russell. No one wants to "make waves,"

Russell decided they'd "stick with the initial group." Russell decided to nominate himself to prevent a vote off.

Russell decided when a swap was permissible ('cuz Summer is cute).

Russell decided when it was okay to vote someone off.

Russell decided when it was okay to take a temptation.

Every contestant appears to be scared to speak up and make their voice, or opinion, known about others. With the ONLY exception being the vegan speaking up about fishing...

"Cancel culture" seems to have made it a very precarious thing to merely state you don't like someone. It inevitably leads to others casting aspersions regarding racism, or homophobia, etc., even though none of that may be at play.

I would point out NOT voting someone off due to their ethnic background is as much racism as voting them off.

To be honest the "competitions" should have forced the contestants into more team-oriented opinion-based challenges to spur on debate rather than the physical challenges that had little to do with their wide range of viewpoints.

There's VERY LITTLE in the episodes that leads to any sort of topical debate. It's not a "social experiment" as must as it is a simple game show like all others... shut up and play along to get to the money.

How could the show let this happen it was supposed to be about diversity and representation but they let these money hungry meathead womanizer come on and take over total FAIL in my eyes stopped watching and won't watch another episode. I was completely invested until Jimmy and Garrid come in and turn it into a show all about the money and Jimmy completely came up short in all the bounty games he's exactly like CJ said a used car salesman, and in his introduction there's pics of him in between two women with g-strings and this is what the producers thought that's what the people wanted? Well you lost me for sure once again total FAIL.

I watched Survive the Raft expecting a social experiment, but it quickly felt like a platform for conflict-particularly political and racial conflict-rather than cooperation.

From the beginning, I felt CJ was unfairly targeted, especially by Lashanna, who came off as loud, aggressive, and immediately confrontational. CJ's calm response-"I was just attacked in a group for how I look... based on my appearance..."-was a standout moment. He called out the hypocrisy in how assumptions were made about him based on his being a white male. And the silence that followed said a lot.

The show seems to lean into the same divisive narratives we see all too often in media: constant focus on race and identity over character and individual merit. Many of us are tired of being told what to think about each other based on skin color. Most Americans, I believe, care far more about someone's integrity, work ethic, and how they treat others than what box they check on a census.

Things really took a turn for the worse when Jimmy joined the raft. Almost immediately, he started sabotaging CJ's standing with the group, spreading lies and twisting CJ's words to stir up gossip-especially among the women. This snowballed quickly and led to a poorly timed comment about Russell, which gave the group an excuse to vote CJ off. It was frustrating to watch, because without Jimmy's meddling, CJ-a skilled spear fisher, level-headed presence, and strong competitor-would have likely made it to the end. His exit felt orchestrated, not earned.

Finally, in the last bounty mission, players were given the option to cross off names from the list-eliminating others from sharing in the final cash prize. Not one of them did it. Not even Jimmy, who had proven himself to be manipulative and money-driven. That moment felt too clean, too perfect. Are we really supposed to believe that no one tried to cut anyone out for a bigger payday? It came across as scripted, or at least heavily influenced behind the scenes, which undercut the entire social experiment premise.

But it's just so bad. It also doesn't help that they constantly reference the original experiment which sounds like it was much more interesting and would've made a better show. This show seemed like it wanted everyone at eachothers throats but they all just kinda worked together, and at worst were slightly annoyed by each other once in a while. Bringing new people on every episode and creating the vote was just straight up stupid, not gonna try to rip it apart, it was just a bad idea. They should have just been given the option to vote members off if they wanted, make it more ominous and random.

There are also no stakes at all. It's just all chill, they're clearly taken care of and don't have to do any real survival. It's like Big Brother on a boat but somehow more boring and with less conflict, honestly it's kind of amazing how much they seemed to fail at their own concept here of "difficult and different people being forced to live together."

This show needs to take its concept and mix it with The Mole, and simplify concepts a bit. There is just way too much going on, like several different shows happening at once.

Also Russ, the vegan and the little Karen ruined everything.