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IN the olden days American Utopian pioneers included the Shakers, the Oneidas and the Amanas. These pioneers had a communal and religious dedication towards perfection, society, work, hand craftsmanship and in the way they conducted their lives. Remember Shaker furniture? These Utopian societies are long dead but their legacy lives on.

Special-snowflake millennials lack everything that the original American Utopians brought to the table in days of old. Case in point millennials lack "skilz." Thus, when watching this show I began laughing out loud.

I even cried (in laughter) as these snowflakes paid big bucks for "the experience" of rolling around in the mud of an "ecovillage," while starving, as their cult-like-mentor snarfed copious quantities of GMO corn-chips and bought $150 bottles of wine while flying first class.

The comedy of this show just could not be any better;

I expect to see a Panamanian gang trying to shake down the clueless. The millennials will ask to see the gang's badges. The Panamanians will reply "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stink-in' badges!" According to the US department of state NONE of the land in the Panamanian outback has recorded title records, and the country is high on the list of legal corruption. Sounds like a good place to build a Utopian community to me, NOT!

"Our survival as a species" depends on a group of millennials that want to pioneer the jungle. Unfortunately, American millennials cannot navigate their way out of a paper bag.

Let's be ecologically friendly by composting with our own manure while we use plastic PVC pipe. That dog does not know how to hunt.

Lets demonstrate that millennials have no real world skills, manipulative skills, and/or critical thinking skills.

If I wanted to select an elite millennial up to the challenge of homesteading in the jungle; I would naturally select an sex seeking manic depressive millennial that works for as an editor on the Huffington post. Watching a millennial that discontinued her mental illness medication makes for a great reality show. The LGBT trend has gone stale so mental illness will be the next big "community" of interest.

The millennial with a finance major but never used a hand tool; I am looking forward to him chopping his arm off doing something physical. He was looking forward to communicating and his fate will be to commune with the mud of a rain-forest.

The pathetic "reality" of this hip Vice Network "reality" show is as funny as it is scary.

Takes a whole episode to kill a goat. Eco warriors with resident CATS. Riding a horse riddles with worms. Everyone obsessed with themselves and their feelings - think I just discovered the generation gap.

This is a hybrid doc/reality series. Yes, it features a lot of characters that are flawed and immature, but it is highly entertaining, pretty self-aware and unforgiving. If you liked "Naked and Afraid", you'll like this - there's a sort of Robinson Crusoe feel to it.

All the problematic things - privilege, lack of awareness, greed, conflict of interest, purity spirals - are discussed in the series. It's a great take on idealism clashing with reality; the portrayal of local Campesinos is quite fair although they just play small side roles and their lives aren't well fleshed out. Still, there's a lot more that could have been poorly portrayed about this challenging subject. I recommend you watch at least 3 episodes before making up your mind.

Prepare for lots of cringe and a good portion of self-reflection. And for wanderlust, if you like warm rain.

I think many of the scores and reviews are not for the show itself, but for the people in it. This is a perfect show to hate-watch.