Maybe you know a couple who are enthusiastic sports fans. They scream on TV during the Lakers game and discuss the latest Yankees deals. Their passion helps to prosper their relationship.
My wife and I are like that, only our fanatics focus on the history channel survival reality show 1 person, 10 wilderness experts stop deep in the woods to build shelters, catch their food, stop loneliness for as long as possible, and film themselves on television. The last person to stand earns $ 500,000.
1 person Much more important than the Olympics and the Super Bowl, the Bushcraft experts and “primitive skills” instructors who star in it are our version of Michael Phelps or Tom Brady. Each season, we select new players to support and follow the rulebook to scrutinize the 10 survival tools they have chosen to bring into the forest. (You left the gillnet at home — come on!). We cheer when the athlete eats the bark of a boiled tree or chokes a leech-filled belly. We develop hot takes in their nasty shelters and discuss the best ways to catch delicious local creatures.
Despite our own aversion to camping, hunting, or going for more than a day without a hot shower, we do all this.
I don’t think we are alone. The show surged in popularity after the sixth season was added to Netflix in 2020. Then, in 2021, the eighth season recorded 18 million streaming views online, an increase of 136% from season 7 broadcast in the fall of 2020. 1 person A media darling in the midst of a pandemic, New York Times, New Yorker, And even this publication. In these articles, the show explained how watching people endure a lonely life in the backcountry helped viewers deal with blockades and isolated lives.
“Many viewers, including myself, seemed to be looking for something deeper while watching the show. A roadmap for navigating loneliness and difficulties in unprecedented moments,” said Philip Dwight.・ Morgan writes in an essay. outside..
I reflect Morgan’s view and have my own. 1 person Increase your confidence in pursuing challenges in your life that feels insignificant compared to what happens at the show. After seeing season 7 contestant Keilyn Marrone landing salmon on the thick ice sheet of a mattress on Great Slave Lake, Canada, I evoked the power to dig up all the weeds in the vestibule.
Super fans like my wife and I are waiting on the History Channel in anticipation of the ninth season of the show starting at 9pm tonight.Those planning to watch: Keep an eye on outside We plan to make several updates throughout the series, including interviews with past participants and producers.And if you 1 person Contact me for topics you would like to find out.
Since this is the first season in which blockade and pandemic life will be broadcast slightly backwards, we asked Ryan Pender, the show’s executive producer, if he expects to lose viewers. He doesn’t, and he believes that a surge of people adventuring outdoors in a pandemic will continue to discover the series.
“Staying here is for fathers and mothers to still take their children outdoors to camp, create Paiute deadlock traps, and go out more,” says Pender. .. “I hope this continues in the current climate of finding a backyard again in the last two years.”
The relaxation of the pandemic rules did not affect the way producers shoot or edit the next season, Pender says. The new place is the place. After performing Season 8 along Lake Chilko in southwestern British Columbia, the show heads to Canada’s subarctic, the northeastern coast of Labrador, which holds a terrifying reputation as a habitat for polar bears. And bears are not the only danger.
“We knew that the northeast coast brought storms and bad weather, and it really rained, and constant wind and rain are big hurdles for these people,” Pender said. “There are also 2,500 polar bears, 10,000 black bears, and many wolves in the area. At some point, we know they are more likely to hit predators.”
Pender says contestants this season are probably the most experienced in the history of the show. Two examples are Karie Lee Knoke, 57, from Sandpoint, Idaho, and Juan Pablo Quiñonez, 30, from Pinawa, Manitoba. In the north of Canada. “There are athletes who have a lot of survival experience in the past,” says Pender. “Some people have spent time alone with the Masai who sailed the Pacific Ocean.”
1 person Fans are accustomed to the typical decline and flow of the season. In the opening episode, we meet the cast when they are unloaded in late summer or early fall, when temperatures are still high and food is plentiful. We begin to get some of the story behind each and every one and observe them scrambling to build shelters and store food before the weather gets bad. Armchair quarterbacks like me also try to determine if there is a player who is particularly good at survival enough to be a winner.
Past contestants are also watching the show for clues, with a keen eye on how producers edit each contestant.I talked to the three former 1 person Contestants about what they were looking for in the early episodes, and all three had similar answers:
“We know that 99% of what we shoot isn’t included in the show, so what we’re looking at is an edited version, so I try not to draw too strict conclusions about them. “I am,” said Nicole Aperian. In seasons 2 and 5. “I know that if someone is crying, they’re probably crying only three times, but when you look at it, they may always look like they were crying.”
1 personIs a constructed story told by the show’s producers and editors, just like any other reality show. But Aperian said that everything he saw on TV during the season really happened. “They do a good job of showing who people really are, and they are the root of your personality,” she added.
Aperian and others, like my wife and I, said they scan early episodes for hints of strong or weak athletes. They analyze each person’s gear choices and scrutinize how to handle the first few days in the bush. Season 6 contestant Woniya Thibaut said he is focusing on specific details of contestants’ bushcraft, such as whether people cook animals in pots or sticks on the fire. I did. (The latter method wastes valuable fat.)
“I’m trying to evaluate their resources. How about fishing? How close are they to freshwater?” She said. “Are their gear choices particularly environmentally relevant? These add up over time.”
Tibaud and Aperian agreed to choose the final one 1 person Winners based on the first few episodes are difficult even for them. Instead, they enjoy the segment of acquaintance with each contestant and choose their favorite. Season 6 winner Jordan Jonas said he has always been attracted to athletes who pursue a strategy similar to his own, prioritizing hunting and food gathering over building shelters.
“I usually attract people who haven’t built a shelter for a month, but instead chase it, hunt and fish, and actually jump into it,” he said. “Of course, I’m trying to figure out who wins from the editing method, because they know how they edited me.”
Jonas didn’t give a clue as to how he was edited. He also didn’t share what he should look for in the early episodes of the show if he was trying to pick the final winner.Alas, you just have to see 1 person And foresee like the rest of us. To be honest, I’m glad Jonas didn’t ruin the season by teaching me how to find a winner. This is a kind of sport, and not knowing the results is part of being a fan. Throughout the season, I want to sit on the couch with his wife and scream on TV.
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