The Summit

So if you had 14 days to reach the top of a mountain in order to win money, and won't get any money if you don't, would you start picking off the athletic people? Well that's just the beginning of what these contestants do. It's like they completely forget they are on a deadline, and are playing a strategic game, mind you, without using common sense strategy. They act all pious saying I won't vote out weak players. Yet these weak players are why they have yet to make a checkpoint on time, easily being over 24 hours behind and 1 checkpoint behind, from errors made on the FIRST day. I barely made it through the 3rd episode, because I was so mad at the players for playing so stupidly! It is overwhelmingly evident that no money will be won by anyone, so what's the point in watching? The producers are going to have to pull a unicorn out their a$$es if they want this to be successful. Actually , I don't even think that would help; it's that bad. Do yourself a favor, just skip this. I guarantee there won't be a second season.

I had high expectations for this show. Who could make it to the top and share in the $. You want everyone to make it but not at the expense of the group. Tough decisions to be made. Instead, the contestants think they are on "Survivor" and last man standing gets the $. They scheme and connive and stupidly vote off their "competition". It's as if they were offering a million $ to EVERYONE who could climb Everest and they vote off the guides and sherpas. Then, the show itself picked some contestants who are so out of shape they struggle with basic hiking let alone mountain climbing. And when many of them would fail on the vertical more difficult climbs the show wants you to believe that they "persevered" and "overcame". Instead, you can see that the "safety" line practically hauls them up. Any accomplishments are now totally unbelievable.

Watching people face their fears is as much of a snooze fest and watching unfit people climb a mountain. But, the cinematography was excellent & the scenery was magnificent! Overall, I found the series entertaining.

Still, any reality show that rewards bad behavior is an immediate turn off. I almost stopped watching because of that. And there's absolutely no way for the players to protect themselves from elimination or those behaving badly.

The other major bummer is, the show is all about FEELINGS. The biggest prize award is based on the EMOTIONS of disgruntled players already eliminated. Because EMOTIONS are the number one most important thing for young people and that's boring as hell. Everything is about the feels. SMH. Imagine if our ancestors tried to build a country based on EMOTIONS. None of us would be here.

IMO, Dusty, Geoff & Nick were the most deserving to win (in that order) so I'm happy with the results. I pray for anyone in the hospital who gets Nurse Dennis Ratchet! Those who were carried along the way were delusional to think they could win - or were deserving of the win. I did like Manu's no-nonsense approach.

A lot of tweaking is needed if there's gonna be a season 2...or better yet, get fit/athletic contestants who can earn advantages with challenges on their way to the check points.

The pacing of this entire series is so slow and overly dramatic. For a competition show, the premise was strong! Going through a harsh environment and tackling obstacles? Sounds cool! The stars selected for this are all awful though and overly dramatic. The shows pacing DRAGS on where every star reitterates the same point umpteen times before they move on to the next dialogue piece for everyone to recycle over and over every episode. None of them have a sense of competition or strategy. If the goal is to make it to the top, you would think you'd vote off weak characters. Nope! They vote off the strong athletic characters because they're making everyone else "feel bad/intimidated". That along with the host who has this total, "I'm a tough guy" persona just makes this entire series unwatchable except for the views and actual 10 minutes (of 40 minutes) of events.

It's so much filler with fake drama and repetition.

We thought this would be a good family show, full of feats of physical prowess, mental toughness, and teamwork. Sure, let's vote off the really athletic, nice people for this group competition where we're on a deadline and have to scale a mountain! It's all about "social game" and honestly none of them deserve to win the prize, the way they keep toxic baggage for fear of voting against the numbers instead of voting off the dead weight.

Turns out it's just a really annoying copycat of Big Brother on a mountain with overly dramatized "challenges" that you'd do on a cruise excursion. Sigh. I'll just watch Alone or Survivor again.