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gridoon2018 If there is one thing that I can't keep my mind off during every episode of "Man Vs. Wild" (or "Born Survivor", if you prefer) that I watch is how much the camera & sound crew are the unsung heroes of this show: they do nearly all the dangerous stuff that Bear Grylls does but also have to carry/handle their technical equipment! Fortunately, they get the credit they deserve in some behind-the-scenes specials in the later seasons. Throughout the show, the camerawork is superb, the photography is crystal-clear, the skydiving sequences are breathtaking, and the landscapes are spectacular; the show takes you to the four corners of the earth and everywhere in between and makes you feel like you are teleported there. And Bear Grylls is engaging company - he is fun to watch. Sometimes he does give in to sensationalism and self-promotion, but most of the time he is quite easygoing and down-to-earth for someone of his skills and accomplishments. He is certainly leading a more exciting and rewarding life than our daily grind! His let's-try-this-on spirit is amazing, but he is definitely not a believer in the practice of following the path of least resistance, which can sometimes be frustrating. He is also not superhuman; he makes mistakes. And once in a while, he lets his guard down and gets surprisingly personal. Of course parts of the show are staged, edited and/or pre-arranged (like the points of "rescue"), there is even an opening disclaimer stating that! This is not a documentary or a reality show, it's entertainment and a travelogue and an escape from everyday life and as such it delivers consistently for over 70 episodes. Highly recommended. *** out of 4.

gut-6 I very much enjoy this pseudo wilderness survival show, even though the situations that Bear puts himself in and the means he uses to survive them are completely absurd. With very little modification, the whole thing could have been filmed as a hilarious, Leo Wankeresque send-up of legitimate wilderness survival experts such as "The Bush Tucker Man", It is really a stunt and gross-out show in the guise of survival advice.Bear gets sent "all alone" into the most remote and inhospitable places where no-one would ever need or want to go, surrounded by what seems to be a zillion cameramen and crew. There he uses over-complicated, energy-wasting and risky survival techniques for little marginal benefit, pretending to be roughing it in the wilderness, before retiring for the night to his luxury hotel. The premise is that he is equipped only with a knife, but when required always manages to have a suitable bit of equipment that can be tendentiously improvised in the style of the "A Team" or "MacGyver" into a survival tool. Nearly every episode shows him munching on some nauseating plant or bug or other animal, usually after introducing it as a local delicacy, then struggling to avoid vomiting. All the while he dispenses his over-complicated and obscure survival advice as if it is sincere and useful, when in actual fact you could only even attempt to use it if you were trapped in the wilderness with a DVD of the show and a laptop to play it.While perhaps not the intent of the show, it really serves to corroborate my loathing of wilderness areas. Mother Nature is a truly loathsome, vindictive harpy that wants to kill you slowly and painfully after feeding you inedible food for your last supper. Watching this show makes me want to bulldoze every wilderness area on the planet and put up an air-conditioned shopping mall in its place. It really helps you understand why environmentalists generally prefer to live in the most densely populated areas of the world's largest and most developed cities.

arvie88 First of all, Bear Grylls is a fantastic charismatic person. Besides that he can rely on his experience in the British SAS.Now, some of you might not realize how hard it is to even come into the SAS. There is a selection process that has no equal in the world. For Example, you have to go to a mountain and they drop you at the beginning and you will have to figure out where the finish is. It will be a mountain that has paths and you will have to walk instead of climbing...but still it is a very tough route. You got a rucksack full of heavy bricks to carry on your back. And you are supposed to reach the 'finish' in a short time frame. And this isn't even the hard part of the selection. There are even tougher things you gotta do. But i will not talk about it, because i want to say a few things about the show now.The show has got me hooked since i saw the first episode. It isn't fake like some other reviewer dared to say. The only 'fake' thing is that he is accompanied by a camera crew so he is never in real danger. But i don't mind. This way the show is much more professional and how are you supposed to film yourself while you're trying to climb a mountain?In every episode you will see Bear eat disgusting things. It's like Fear Factor in the wild. And the faces Bear makes while he eats the revolting things, it's great while you're sitting home watching the show with a back of crisps available to you. Bear is funny in his own original way, and it makes the show complete. EnjoY the show!

Absoluteless This show is almost too good to be true. The Camera work is excellent, indeed it is at times almost too good. It seemed rather odd that he was able to film himself traversing a 100+ foot ridge on a rope from above, while simultaneously showing us angles from below and too the side without revealing the locations of the camera above him. I also found it curious when they filmed him falling into a crevasse from below. Either way, the show sells me on it's authenticity. I assume the camera guys have tents and supplies for themselves, but they also appear to let him get in and out of trouble on his own. This was proved to me when he jumped into freezing water at the base of glacier and almost drowned, slipping back into it a few times before finally being able to pull himself out. However they film it, it's brilliant, fantastic television, and I strongly recommend the show. Be prepared for some truly gruesome scenes though, as Bear will eat ANYTHING, and I d mean that. I nearly tossed my cookies a few times watching this show. Let's just say that any vegans or veggies out there should probably steer clear. But all in all, a truly fascinating program.