Anyone seeing this train wreck? I’m betting it will last 6 episodes. The angriest black man in reality tv history is on here.
I’m watching it. I had high hopes for the show, but I can’t help but feel that they’ve intentionally chosen a group of people least prepared to do this. Not so much in terms of skill sets but in terms of personality. I think they’ve picked people who are completely single minded in their belief system to create as much conflict as possible. And I get it, it is a show and they need some conflict to make it interesting. It definitely feels like a train wreck in progress.
Who the fuck is that host narrator guy and why does he look like he’s wearing a disguise?
I’ve been reading comments about the live feed and this is going to end in somebody’s death. They were allowed alcohol, guns, knives, and it’s possible somebody brought cocaine? Good idea.
Wikipedia claims Dan Piraro is the host. I think it’s Johnny Depp doing a bad Johnny Depp impression.
Not at all the show I thought this thread was going to be about … our latest Yes Minister clone Utopia.
The most sane person on the show is the right-wing survivalist gun nut. That’s a tough crowd.
Argh I was sitting around tonight doing nothing and almost watched this but decided not to.
I regret not checking it out, it sounds like an awesome trainwreck.
I made my post before the Aaron’s (the chef) breakdown. As if to prove my point, he is so single minded about the superiority of his cooking skills he’s willing to threaten somebody with violence if they don’t concede to it (ok yes there’s was the whole don’t touch me, but the touching off point was because he wouldn’t follow his advice on the chicken). I believe that when they were looking through the videos to find somebody with cooking skills they looked for somebody who said something to the effect of “I am a great cook, and if somebody won’t trust me on that, I will put them in the ****ing ground”.
Given that all the previous utopianist projects were, I’d have to imagine that to have been the goal of the producers.
It looks like they’ll be rotating people in and out of the show, otherwise I’d be more worried about genocide than simple death. Of course, that also means that the show is unlikely to ever accomplish much more than showing some people out camping and partying.
The blond chick prepper is the one to watch out for, mark my words. She’s a bored instigator with woo ideas and buzzwords hat needs men to pay attention to her.
She incited Red, the carry over from that was the cook confrontation. She created the trial, wanted Josh to stay (to his face) when he left she wanted to vote him out, then later she was flirting very strongly with him.
She’s batshit insane, has the victim vocabulary, and is mildly intelligent. Trouble.
At this stage of reality shows, they must have psychological profiles of contestants guaranteed to be controversial. This show seems to have every possible variation of batshit insane.
Agreed. Too bad I would have watched a true social experiment. It would have been interesting. The first clue that this wouldn’t be that was that it was on Fox.
They did do Solitary, which was fun.
I wonder about six episodes - my TV guide said this was 1 of 3. Then again, the newspaper I get this TV guide out of each week has difficulty printing the full card for Arlington Park races in the sports section and even more difficulty printing the correct Lotto numbers on a daily basis so I have to think they’re wrong there. They can’t possibly wrap this trainwreck up in 3 episodes. Can they?
The premier episode is a three part-er. the first was on 7/7, the second will be 7/9 and the third is 7/12. Then it goes on from there. so it is not a three episode only show, but the first episode is in three parts which is where that was coming from.
How far can the camera crew and backstage personnel let it go before they are obligated to step in put a halt to things?
Personal threats?
Fist fights?
The wielding of weapons?
I left the room to blow my nose or something and didn’t catch what lead to the confrontation. It appeared that the hillybilly wanted to cook a piece of chicken and angry black guy #2 (ABG2) got really upset about it. I wasn’t tracking why he was upset. i also didn’t understand the sequence of events from there. He starts yelling at hillbilly about how much he respects him, then he’s yelling at him about touching his body, when it appeared that ABG2 was actually advancing on the hillybilly and was the one who was touching.
ABG1 is the excon who threw the tantrum when they were loading the boxes and then put the sexual assaulter guy in a chokehold.
Oh, also, ABG2 is running around shirtless wearing his dog tags? That’s a red flag right there. No one, and I mean NO ONE who’s actually in the military wears their dog tags as flare. It’s the first sign of an unstable douche.
I want to add that this is truly the most one dimensional group of fuckups I’ve ever seen on a reality TV show. And that includes all seasons of Big Brother. Not a single person on this show seems “real” or normal. They each have a single extreme behavior and don’t behave in any other fashion at any minute. Like hillbilly guy is ONLY an inbred redneck. ABGs are ONLY angry and flex nuts all the time. Preacher guy is ONLY shown reading the scriptures and crying about the nudity of other folks. Katniss is, something, though I’m pretty sure she will never regret getting taken away with alcohol poisoning on the first episode. CONTRACTOR guy only acts creepy and will certainly spend his time on the show trying to sniff worn panties and grab tits.
I really think the show would be MORE interesting if they would have brought in 10 people who were stable, with survival skills, and showed that instead.
Without the dumb ass narrator. What’s his story? Why is he there? Why does every Fox reality show feel like it’s produced by the team that made Joe Millionare?
I saw it the same way. Dude was yelling at the guy about not touching him while walking straight into him. These are seriously messed up people. Though possibly not all of them are crazy. I think several could possibly be sane. I think many of the participants weren’t really introduced at all. Too boring for TV is a mark of sanity.
In our house, we think ABG1 is bipolar. He went apeshit over literally nothing. That crate was huge! Then after a f-ed up first day he’s totally cool.
AWG also seemed to be on a short fuse. I agree that ABG2 was out of line, but I simply do not understand why AWG simply didn’t cook is own damn chicken if he wanted it. And the water thing was simply dumb.
Hopefully they run out of alcohol quickly.
Did the Fox Lawyers sign off on this? I think intentionally casting people with psychological problems is a bad idea (obviously). But does it put Fox on the hook for liability? I guess not, but it should.
Oh, and I’m not saying that she’s not crazy, but apparently a chicken tractor is really a thing: