Survive the Raft

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.

I thought I would be alone in coming on here to give this show a not so positive review, but I do join the other reviews and just like the heading, say it was a great idea, but horribly produced.

I admit I have been watching the show in its entirety from start to finish and I don't mind some of the things other people are saying, because these game shows are ALL ABOUT politics and saving oneself via alliances and schemes (think back to Richard on Season 1 of Survivor, the original alliance guy). However, this show is ran by the producers, because each episode builds on how the contestants are steadfast in what they will do at the end of the episode, only to find that we as an audience have been dooped, and they were all in agreement the whole time. Like it was going to be some super clever plot twist that we didn't see coming. BUT it is in Every. Single. Episode.

This show puts together the most dramatic people ever. 70% of episode one is just them sitting around talking about trigger words. The show isn't really about survival, but about being sensitive. So if you want to watch a group of people talk about their feelings on a raft for an hour, this show is great for you!

Maybe if they would add more survival games and less talking it would catch the attention of more viewers but it's too controversial for a show called "Survive the Raft".

I think the idea of the show is interesting but if I want to listen to people talking about politics and their personal beliefs I'd watch the news or listen to a podcast. Give me more actual survival games and I'm in!

Very good idea and I was really excited to watch it. It started off really bad with the pick of contestants and then the whole thing at the market really annoyed me. The Liberal women had the money and only bought veg and instead of buying meats and protein (needed for survival) they had a lot of money left over that they had to hand back to the host.

Another show attacking white males while saying we don't understand prejudice. It makes no sense

I did pull through and finish the episode (1 hour 23 minutes) and it just got worse. To the end they started doing tasks but for me it was too late I will not watch another episode.

If you like white males being attacked then this is for you.

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.