Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

I'm currently watching season 4 of this show, which had a bizarre misstep last year by relocating to Patagonia of all places.The show is an endurance survival show, with participants dropped off in a remote part of Vancouver Island (except for last season, which was in Patagonia). They must then survive until 1 is left, with loneliness usually crushing most (as per the show's appropriate title).This season they have shaken it up by having teams of two, one of which must set up camp and the other who must find them, dropped off 10 miles away.The contestants, ala Survivorman, must do all their own filming, which doubles (at least!) the effort required. How the cameras keep rolling, with no semi-trucks of batteries in sight, is an interesting question...As expected then, with a bunch of amateur filmers also trying to just survive, the camera work is Blair Witch shaky and bad, with lenses frequently fogged over and smeared.Also, there is precious little good film, as the contestants grow tired and cranky and have little energy for quality film making.This perhaps explains the bad starting to every season, where they spend way too much time showing the contestants at home.It would be nice to see each contestant go over each survival item they are bringing and why, as this is left as a mystery and detracts from the show. Instead we see endless montages of the contestants frolicking with children and dogs prior to leaving.Despite this, the show does a fairly good job of stitching the various pieces of sow's ears, into a reasonable silk purse, with encounters with bears, wolves, cougars, and spiders, all presented in horror fashion. There's also something car-crash-attractive about watching a starving person slice up a banana slug and fry it like calamari, before hungrily gobbling it down...

I binge watched both seasons. My comments focus on the more successful contestants (i.e., the final 4 or 5.FOOD = #1 issue by far I believe every contestant who tapped out was nearing starvation. #9 had lost 32# after 60 days. #8 after his kayak proved it was not effective at producing food. #10 (winner) went from the verge of collapse and tapping out to "I could last a lot longer" when he found crabs to harvest.CLOTHING & CLEANLINESS? If I wear the same fleece top every day in my house & yard, it starts to look grubby after a week or two. It would look ratty after a couple weeks of backpacking. Did the weekly medical & battery visits include a change of freshly washed identical clothes?Ditto on personal hygiene - I didn't study this, but I don't recall any scenes where it looked like people had dirty faces or grubby fingernails. I was impressed by what the contestants did, whether they got clean clothes or not. That's just a curiosity issue.I'd like to think that I might have been like Mike: create a spectacular home and then give up out of boredom after one month. I fantasize that I'd have been like Niclole: joyful attitude throughout, even as she had to quit because she was starving with no prospects of that changing. (PS - she's brilliant, but it seems she might have stockpiled food, like smoked salmon and greens.)

Someone posted, there isn't one documented wolf attack in history. You need to do some research. Many documented attacks plus 5 fatal attacks since 1989. Most recent attack, a 14 yr old boy in MN. He survived. A woman was killed by 2 wolves just a few yrs ago in Alaska.Just the lack of sunshine for so long will cause great psychological stress.Those that give it low ratings probably want a somewhat scripted/planned show like Survivor or Amazing Race.Of course its a slow paced show, no host to try and make it interesting, no competition for food rewards, no hype. It is just men left alone to record their daily struggles.

I've never felt the need to write a review on IMDb, but the few people who don't give this show a high rating seem to be the only ones writing reviews. Alone is not so much a survival show as a psychology experiment. The contestants are dropped in a dangerous wilderness with just the barest necessities and left to their own devices. Besides having to find shelter, food, and drinkable water, they have to deal with being alone all the time for as long as they can stand. Some of you probably don't realize how hard it is to deal with loneliness. Just watch a prison show and see how people break down in solitary confinement. The one thing they have for company is a little hand camera, and the contestants that last long enough really open up to it. The longer the season lasts the more they bare their soul for all to see. To me it's the most fascinating TV I've ever seen. It makes you appreciate your food, your home, and the people around you more, just by showing you were you'd be without them.