This week’s excitement actually started yesterday on Netflix, but thanks to work I’ve not had a chance to start watching it yet, it’s Outlast: The Jungle, the humidity-filled follow-up to extremely addictive survival competition Outlast (normally set in Alaska where it’s cold).
Outlast sees 16 people made of outdoorsy-dads and ladies who typically prefer to work alone have to survive in teams – that’s important, you must be in a team to stay in the game – if you choose to leave one (or if you get kicked out) you’ve got 24 hours to have a different team accept you or you’re eliminated. Also if it all gets too difficult you can “flare out” at any point. The idea, as given, is that the team that lasts the longest splits $1m between them, but it sounds like about a month into the first series production got bored and decided the winners by a race, which is a bit of a swizz but doesn’t stop the rest of it being dramatic and entertaining. The first series has lots of incredible behaviour (both questionable and good) throughout, the second series is more of a slow burn, but don’t let that put you off. I ended up chain-watching the first one in a day. Looking forward to getting the chance to watch this!