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I was really looking fwd to this after seeing it pop up on Netflix. The 1st four episodes were great, fifth and sixth really annoyed me, way too many flashbacks! Could have been great, sadly I was disappointed.

Way to many flashbacks! I mean, it just does not move forward. Both actresses are good but the boyfriend makes you want to go to sleep. The place is beautiful and the series starts promising but the it goes back and forth for ever...

I'm writing while episode 3 is running because basically I'm bored with the show already. Yet another flashback is showing. So far this show is mostly flashbacks with a little bit of beginner camping thrown in. And by camping I mean yelling and swearing. Turning it off now.

Started out promising but by episode 2 I found myself fast forwarding the flashback garbage and just watching the "surviving" the wilderness bits and even those were pretty rubbish. This could have been a very good series if it had focused on the survival outdoor aspect of it, but the constant flashbacks totally destroyed it for me. By episode 3 I just got bored with it. Cant be bothered watching any more of it. Netflix has seemed to be travelling on a downhill spiral lately with their below average offerings.

This show isn't just about surviving in the wilderness, it's about surviving life in general. There are plenty of reviews saying how disappointing it is that there is too much flashback and not enough of the surviving in the outdoors. They are missing the point. During a tough physical experience in the wilderness our protagonist searches the trials and tribulations of her past. It's well done, nice acting, thoughtful and thought provoking. Don't tune in if you are only looking for macho survival.

Just finished episode 4 and I am so sick of the pointless storyline. I'm so tired of being fed narrative in every facet of life.

This had potential, but i have fast-forward through more than I have watched at this point. Just when you think its going somewhere good, you get slammed with pointless backstory; which innevitably won't make any sense until 'the true story is revealed' at the end.

Effffff this nonsense. I can't believe Warner Brothers produced this crap. Its not edgy, dark or cool. Its Inate, annoying and boring AF.

I feel bad that the lead actress does a good job, really does, and it goes absolutely nowhere. What incredible drivel.

Don't bother watching this unless you are a masochist. You've been warned.

Overall 4/10 Entertainment Value 2.5/10 - The extra .5 is because the lead does a really good job, thus far (as of episode 4, not sure I can stomach the rest, we'll see).

The reason why a lot of people didn't like this series is because they thought it would be a show about a woman surviving in the wilderness. That's it. But the real survival is the one she struggles with inside, and every event that happens in the wilderness plays a part in her letting go and getting through her trauma from childhood to adulthood. There are a lot of flash backs. But it's vital to why she keeps waking up each day and pushes through to keep alive.

First it's about being tough.

Then it's about finally freeing yourself of the pain you hang on to.

And also: The videography and scenery are beautiful. The music on point. It was a gorgeous show that deserves more than the low reviews. Don't be afraid to watch it- you might cry like I did at the end.

Outrageous survival story that leads to a strenuous and confusing self-discovery trip.

The survival elements are mostly completely unrealistic and hair-raising. Many details are so outrageous that one wonders who writes such screenplays without blushing... Lots of boring flashbacks are used to fill the running time and inflate the thin story.

I am so close to canceling Netflix. Another boring, unrealistic, far too long series. Some of the things are so ridiculous I was actually laughing. Pass on this one just like every other recent Netflix release. Netflix: if it's not a stand up comedian or a terrible documentary, it's junk like this.

Could have been great...but very average and boring instead. Backstory and backflashes are useless, uninteresting and distracting. The show is not about a woman that crashes with a plane in the wild and needs to survive...that would have been cool actually, and was what the trailer made u think. Instead the show is about a woman dealing with woman problems and an emotional relationship drama...seriously why????? Its just boring as hell.

The acting is quite good and the series could have been much better without the flashbacks. %80 of the scenes are pointless flashbacks which bores one to death. I have just finished episode 3 and I am already thinking of quitting.

This is the worst series I have ever watched on Netflix and I will tell you why without spoiling it. (Or at least what I think is not spoiling it)

1. The whole series is filled (and I mean like 80%) with pointless flashbacks that add NOTHING to the story.

2. From what I see, the main character is a professional diver and can hold her breath for more than 3 minutes. Wow!

3. Since the whole series is a flashback galore, the show tries to make us feel bad for her after being stranded. The main character is highly unlike able and unbelievably boring. How am I supposed to show any sympathy towards her?

4. Every single character (there's like 5) in the show are a snooze fest. Especially the boyfriend.

5. The whole dialog consists of the main character dropping the F bomb for no reason at all.

6. The show also has dead people talking to the main character. Come on now.

7. The main character finds something extremely valuable and then decides to use it to help make a fire, despite there being millions of sticks around her.

8. The main character should have died from hypothermia in ep 1/2.

9. I still don't understand why she couldn't wait for the next flight at the start of ep 1. The reasoning didn't seem to be urgent.

10. The main character should have died in ep 4/5. The fact that she just got up perfectly fine was baffling to me. Her bones should be crushed.

11. Here we go again in the last ep. She should have already died twice now. What happened should have for sure finished her but I guess she's immortal.

12. The main character is a nobody with 0 friends and she has an obnoxious personality. Her acting wasn't horrible, but it was very hard to watch.

13. This is supposedly a survival thriller, yet we probably see about 2 actual survival scenes in the whole series.

14. The ending was predictable and how every survival (not in this case) movie goes. The whole series is a snooze fest, but perfect for background noise!

Liz, a NY attorney on a quest to get to a remote Alaskan village, talks to men in taking her on a private charter after the airline cancels her flight. The charter plane has mechanical problems and crashes into a lake. Liz and one other passenger survives, but he dies after being rescued by Liz.

The series alternates between her increasingly desperate attempts at surviving the wilderness and her past life, both as a child and as a professional. Some will find the numerous flashbacks as annoying, but they are key in understanding Liz's character.

The acting by all is excellent, as is the cinematography and the beauty of the location. It would have been better done, however, as a two hour movie.

I tried but turned it off mid way in episode 4. Nothing, I repeat nothing ruins a program more than flashbacks. I felt the acting was very good but just can't handle flashbacks. One or two per episode pushes the limit. 5 a minute makes it unwatchable. It took 4 days for me to get through episode 3, I really wanted to find out what was going on but couldn't do it.

I honestly enjoyed this. Yes it is unrealist but that applies to a good majority of TV shows/movies out there. It has a good message and it needs the flashbacks to explain her story. My only complaint is the ending which in my opinion was very unsatisfying. They really could have done better with that.

Don't know why it's called keep breathing when all she maintains is daydreaming.

How do you even have time to daydream in the wild with bears around you & zero shelters, how do you maintain makeup for a full week under rough weather conditions?

This is by far the cleanest person lost in the wild I ever seen you can leak ice cream off her body while she day dreams about her work & she won't even notice

The only thing she is good at is holding her breath under water, so unrealistic you will wonder if the addict was perhaps the person who wrote the script coz nothing there makes sense.

Don't waste your time, rather play lost in your backyard than watch this none-sense.

The acting and cinematography are ok , but .... What ever the film was trying to achieve by splitting the movie into flashback /reality 50/50 didn't work... There was not enough material in the reality scenes to make the viewer exited , ( we were waiting to see some real surviving action , tense) we were always up shied with more unrelated flashbacks) Even when some flashbacks were justified it didn't work ...

The excessive flashbacks works only if they have the real material or it support explains the current events, here it didn't have neither his nor that ...

My final suggestion, save the time and avoid.