Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

I loved this show more that the Naked and Afraid; in addition, to the hardships of survival in the harshest physical condition, there was also an even bigger challenge of survival in a larger group setting. The show became an intriguing journey of human feelings, emotions, morals. In some cases, the outcomes were unexpected. I particularly enjoyed the final show re-union show. It was shocking to see that the group had not learned any additional human skills. I felt sorry for the 2 outcasts. The individuals that treated them in a most horrible way possible, had no remorse and showed no grownup maturity to learn from the experiences. It was truly horrifying.

My husband and I watch the show and we love how you create monsters out of the people who are participates. We always pick out the ones that we love to hate. The number 1 contestant that we loved to hate was Alana (we referred to her as 'Red").Laura, Luke, Chris, Eva, Alana and especially annoying Danielle we thought were real a**holes in the way that they treated Dani & Shane. They were not leaders. They teamed up on Dani & Shane & Honora and proved that they were a total waste of space, their egos got the better of them and it was really pathetic.Luke called himself a hippie when he was acting like a real jerk by following in Chris's ways, he was showing no love & he calls himself a counselor?What they did to Dani was unconscionable.

I applaud EJ,Jeff and Dani, they are the greatest. The rest of the 11 are selfish, self centered , egotistical and "legends in their own minds"! Dani left the group because she was treated with NO respect and the women in that group, were all jealous of her and knowing she would not follow in their "foot steps" by being a full fledged JERK! As for the two guys in this group, they are also are "legends in their own minds"! EJ & Jeff shared the (2) Eels they caught with the whole group but when the other group caught the Stingray, they did not even offer EJ or Jeff any of it to repay them for the first time EJ & Jeff shared their Eel with that group.Jeff being a good hearted guy fed them all again with another large Eel. That shows who really "shines" in this whole group! I wish Dani had joined EJ & Jeff as there was only (6) days left in the challenge but being the great woman she is, she did not want to burden EJ or Jeff or bring the other groups "drama" into their camp. My choice for perfection in this XL series are: EJ, Jeff & Dani hands down! Dani, you have nothing to hold your head down about, you were "ganged up on" and if I had been there that would never have happened, your great.

The very last episode of Naked and Afraid season 2, brought the whole thing crashing down for me. I actually enjoyed the show before that. Watching a bunch of self-centered big-headed so called survivalists, fail and give up at the first feeling of pain or hardship, was real entertainment.But then came that last episode, redemption. And oh dear, I now not only hated the show, but I also seemed to harbor resentment for having watched all those episodes, only to be let down that way at the end.Yes, in my opinion, the people are looked after pretty well, the show doesn't want anyone to die after all. But really, most of them would have died in reality.But why do I relate the last shows to the new XL you ask? Well, the last show of season 2 of Naked and Afraid, the brought a one of the contestants back who lasted just a few days because of bugs, to redeem herself, and with the help of the show, they attempt to show that she does just that. But the show took us for fools as usual.The problem with this new show it, that they have brought people back from Naked and Afraid. Why?????? Why would they do such a thing after making such a mess of the last show. I can't believe it. Seriously, I actually tried to watch this first episode, thinking I was being a bit too harsh, but not, I wasn't being too harsh, I wasn't actually being harsh enough.Bad news on this new series, which could have been so much more.