Fight to Survive

I enjoy watching different reality TV shows with my mom. It's become part of our family time and we like commenting together on different shows. If you're looking for a family show, this isn't it. There is a group but particularly 3 members of that group that act rude, highly aggressive, and take whatever they want from the other people on the island out of greed and jealousy. It makes the show hard to watch because each episode so far that we've watched (up to Season 1 Ep 5), the bully group act progressively worse. They remind me of Lord of the Flies with the disturbing screaming and everything. And the worst part is that the competitive game is almost entirely strength based and of course the 3 people acting like bullies are significantly physically stronger than the others. This has resulted in the physically weaker contestants getting injuries almost every time they enter the ring. The producers did a terrible job balancing this show and casting it.

The idea for this show is basically a mashup of shows that already exist, particularly Survivor, the Challenge, and Million Dollar Island. It's a solid idea but it is terribly executed. The competitive portion of the game ultimately comes down to a physical battle to hold onto an item. Fight classes exist in professional fighting for a reason. You have two or three physically dominant contestants throwing around the other contestants like rag dolls. There's absolutely no real competition whatsoever. You know who's going to win before the match even takes place, which makes the whole 'challenge' element of the game utterly pointless. I'm honestly surprised people weren't seriously hurt. You have a jacked male and female team battling out of shape male/female teams who are twice their age. The contestants all should have been within the same range of fitness and competitiveness. CW, watch the Challenge and take notes. You had a great opportunity to create something of your own and you completely missed the mark.

When I read the description of the show I was excited and had big hopes. I watch Alone, Survivor, Naked and Afraid and I enjoy them, I am a fan of those shows. However, this show seems to be more about bullies/bullying in my opinion. There is not that much footage or focus about surviving. If you expecting a "survival" show this is not it or the format is highly imbalance where your knowledge about surviving is secondary. Instead, if you are strong and know how to "wrestle" you are good.

Most survivalists are about knowledge of the environment what can you eat, how can you hunt games, etc. Not all of them are Athletes or super strong physically. But this show is mostly focused on hoarding items and to get items you fight for it. No surprise, the strong people (a few) just bully everyone else for their resources.

If this game show was supposed to be more focused on the competition/fighting portion instead of the surviving part, they should have make sure all participants were wrestlers/fighters or at least have diverse/balanced competition games like in Survivor. Instead this was like watching dogs fight.

Bully to survive / Get bullied and survive should be the name of this show.

I wanted to like this. It has all the ingredients for a programme that should...should be an enjoyable watch. It has familiar people we've all seen before if you watch Survivor type shows. People who know how to use tactics, people who don't mind going without to get to a win. People who are willing to compete with each other. People from 'Survivor', 'Alone', Naked and afraid'..you get the picture. Theoretically they know what they're doing and they also know how to react to camera and be interesting. And yet it's not a good watch.

It's not about surviving, it's about fighting. It's appealing to something rather unpleasant in human nature and rewarding it.

Consequently any given episode revolves around people moaning and being genuinely uncomfortable and these are people used to survival situations. Plotting to make life as horrific as they possibly can for the others is the way to go. In other words for me it's nasty.

It goes against many of the principles of the shows a lot of them have been in before. Seems that survival principles are for sale.

What's bothering me is this trend towards who can inflict the most discomfort on the rest seems to be the way this type of show is going. Who behaves the worst and the cruelest is the featured contestant and might well win. Where is this going ?

As unlikely as that seems consider...the closing hook on an episode is that someone says forcefully they are going to make people fight for water. Really ? Water ?

Chances are this won't actually happen but it's the selling point for next week.

If you enjoy this kind of thing go for it. Not for me.

To me it's appealing to an aspect of humanity that is a concern.

This is the Worst show ever. I have never seen a show where being a bully has a reward.

The team with positive attitude and kind behavior and that is actually good at surviving off the island without the need of any "items" is considered the loosing team and the team that all they do is sleep, laziness and violence are the winners.

I am stunned that.

At least cast contenders that have same martial art background and make it challenging for all the teams rather than the sad outcome where the weak team are volunteering to leave cause they don't want to be bullied.

The creator of this show should never be allowed near a camera set again.

PLEASE DONT LET YOUR KIDS WATCH THIS GARBAGE.

If it was up to me This show should be taken off air immediately.