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In the first incarnation of "Naked and Afraid", it seemed like a series of long endurance tests. Most of the individuals either tapped out or were miserable for the entire 21 day experience.

"Naked and Afraid XL" is different. The 12 survivalists are dropped into a harsh area of Colombia where the daily temperatures routinely reach 105 degrees. They start as 4 teams of three. Although there are hardships--especially at the beginning--they fare fairly well. A local survival expert had predicted that most of them would not last 20 days, let alone the 40 day goal. But at the end of 20 days, only two had tapped out.

What makes this show better is the large number of people involved. Much more is happening and there are a variety of experiences. Some of the most interesting moments come from unexpected interactions between the participants.

Are we really still living in an era where a non sexual context female nipples have to be censored? The whole show's theme is 'NAKED' and afraid; again non sexual. If sexual context was REALLY a concern, ALL the nudity (including buttocks) would be censored. Clearly your audience gets it. Yet, your overtly sensitive producers and the MPAA--do not. Snowflakes need to stop deciding what is and isn't appropriate, before we all are forced to look at the clouds in the sky because THE WORLD is just TOO MUCH for our poor sensitive minds to handle... If you want to sign up for extinction, that's fine--but you're not taking the rest of us with you.

Naked and afraid XL is the next level for the contestants as well as the viewers of the regular naked and afraid Survival series.

A Single episode is too short to cover the ordeal of 21 day survival challenge hence Discovery has come up with XL which covers the 40 day survival challenge instead of 21 and is spread across an entire series.

The highlight of the show is that Many veteran survivalists are given a shot at Redemption through XL and it showcases how human nature changes when the same person is pitted in a different group.

Group dynamics plays a major part and each person has to come up with his survival plan for the 40 days. You can see lot of survival plans/fails, and a lot of drama too which is obvious when many people are pitted together and decisions clash.

It's true that the show is edited in such a way that events seem to be more linear and a lot of drama is triggered by the showrunners themselves like asking specific questions intentionally or deliberately picking contestants who are sure to bring in drama. But thats obvious considering this is a reality TV show and not a documentary.

It would be amazing if a crossover with Bear grylls is done someday.

In short this is an amazing survival series if you consider this as a reality TV show which is more real compared to all other current crop of shows.

I've watched every season of Naked and Afraid, regular and XL. For this second season of XL, I just had to express my complete and utter dissatisfaction with the editors of this show.

The major problem I had is that they continuously fake us out in order to build excitement. They will show a person walking and then show a lion walking. The lion is nowhere near the person but they have to heighten the danger aspect artificially. Lame! They must have done this about 100 times this season, I kid you not.

They also fake like something major is happening and again show pictures of dangerous animals not even close, and then go to a commercial break. When you come back, it's daylight out and nothing happened. Lame!

This is an interesting show and can be very entertaining without the editor's help. I would fire the current editors and bring in people that just show us what's real. Maybe it will be tough to fill an episode with action but at least there will be some integrity. As a fan, I hate being fooled and treated like an idiot.

N & A XL is much better than the original N & A. Instead of only 21 days, survivalists have to reach 40, and rather than just 2 people, there are 12.

They begin divided in small groups, but after several days tend to bunch up into one big group.

The show can be viewed from many different perspectives. Nature people will find most interest in the survival aspects and the beauty of the exotic outdoors, people who like reality television drama will like it for the relationships, teams, cliques, and alliances, people who live an active lifestyle and exercise will find it interesting how their bodies physiologically respond to low calories, and people who like contests will be intrigued by who makes it to the end.

Because the environmental conditions are so harsh, many people can't make it to the 40th day and "tap out". The brutal conditions really take their toll on everyone as they severely lose weight and struggle to find any significant amount of food to feed the group. By the 20th-30th day, the survivalists' energy levels are so depleted that they can barely move and to conserve it, they have to stay in one place most of the time.

This is the type of show that lots of people would be embarrassed to admit they like. Some of the drama is staged, and they use lots of stock footage of dangerous wildlife to try to increase the viewers' feelings of danger and suspense. Rumors have gone around that sometimes producers will sneak in a candy bar or drop a fish in their pond to catch for food when they're starving. So there are some weaknesses that people will be quick to point out and you'll notice that aren't fully realistic.

However, this is a guilty pleasure on a bored Sunday night if there ever was one. The nature shots are beautiful, the animal footage will leave you in awe and captivated, and the sense of fear and danger is real. The survivalists really are struggling to make it due to unbearable heat, scarce food, irritability and emotional volatility due to the frustrating situations.

I didn't think season 2 would be as good as season 1, especially after the first episode or two, but after the last episodes 6 & 7, I'm surprised to honestly feel and say that it just passed it. What looked like an easy glide to 40 days for everyone turned into a nightmare that saw 5 people, 3 of the most popular, tap out within 24 hours, and there's still 11 days to go. It was a real surprise how many survivalists who appeared to be the strongest suddenly couldn't make it.

I think the best way to describe this show would be a guilty pleasure with occasional bits of brilliant survival knowledge.

I've watched all episodes of Naked and Afraid over the years. Some of them are really cool, and I do love survival shows in general.

However.

Already on their way out to the bush, the South-African men said something like, why are you doing this, naked where it is very dangerous?

This sentiment has followed me through the episodes. The apathy and the constant showing of muscles, confidence and self-assured nature has me baffling for air. From what I can tell, they mainly sit around, waiting for one of them to get up and try to catch something. And then they have nothing. And then they sit around again, waiting for someone to catch something and no one does. It's an endless circle.

And then they start to get sick. So sick in fact that nearby medics has to be called for. (so, they're really not so much alone, just camping out next to the real experts)

And when they start to get sick, the embarrassment should had struck them. But they're "experts" right? So they don't get embarrassed.

But I do. I get so embarrassed that I can hardly watch. And I do want to finish what I've started, so I do keep trying... but I have to play a computer game in the same time to get my head away from the worst of the craziness.

Listen. Here they are. 13 entitles Americans. People who can afford taking some 50 days (including travel-time etc) out of their lives to go and do something adventurous. They're well fed, well clothed, fortunate and spoiled. They've never had to starve, unless they felt like it. They've never had to really fend for themselves, unless they felt like it. They never had to fight for their lives, unless they felt like it.

Lets face it. These people are sitting around, in the bush in South Africa. A country populated by not less than 12 million people living in poverty. They have no clean water, no electricity, no work, no food. This is the reality.

And there these 12 boys and girls are sitting, saying things like "they are starving" when a van some 100 meters from them, have the medical care that very few people in South Africa has, or can even dream of. Also, that van is full stocked with food, clean water, clothing and a flight back to their safety and spoiled American lives.

This season is so typical for the western world. We are entitled, we are so sure of our-self that we go camping in a world we don't understand, or even know anything about. We go places without having studied the culture, ecology, population or anything.

I am sure that not only do the South Africans helping out in this series laugh at the stupid Americans. I am sure that they also are weeping. The laughter stopped in its track, and the crying begins, for their own world and culture.

That's all.

I loved the early seasons of the original Naked and Afraid because they taught honest survival skills. That slowly got scarified in favor of more forced drama as the show went on before culminating in Naked and Afraid XL, where they allowed clearly unqualified contenders to return and set about trying to push their buttons.

Case in point: Shane, the so-called "Alpha Male". In his first challenge, he broke his foot and spent most of the challenge being nursed by his partner (a wilderness survival skills teacher) as he whined about how women have no business trying to make it in the wild that everyone under 30 is useless.

So who do they pair him with? A twenty-something vegetarian EMT and a tough-as-nails Texas rancher who was the first person to survive the original 21 day challenge solo.

The two of them disprove his theories about how everything is supposed to work just by existing and he starts having a nervous breakdown almost immediately, because these two women don't consider his whining about being abandoned as a child and bragging about being told it was a miracle he wasn't a serial killer by his shrink to be a turn-on.

The sick thing is that his fans started sending rape and death threats to these two women IRL as the show was going on, after Shane abandoned them, went off on his own, proved incapable of constructing his own shelter and so incompetent that he couldn't make a fire. The women did just fine without him and no F***s were given when he came back, with no apology, and said he had decided they should work together.

The same thing happens with the high-strung Honora - the one returning survivalist who didn't succeed on the original Naked and Afraid. She gets paired with two arrogant men used to doing things their own way, who know full well that Honora washed out on her first challenge and treat her every suggestion with derision.

It's around the fifth episode that the show's editing becomes clear, as a group of two men "just happen" to come by at that moment and welcome Shane into their group. And all seems well and good... until the bromance is ruined as another group of five contenders show up, half-starved, just after they made their first successful kill.

Now, ignoring that four of the people in these two groups had appeared together in previous challenges (Eva/Jeff and Laura/EJ) and that there is no reaction to these former partners seeing each other... what are the odds that this group of five people showed up at that moment? About the same as EJ and Jeff showing up to save Shane from the mean girls, I reckon.

And that's ignoring how neatly butchered all the eels that Jeff "caught" seem to be and how Jeff is suddenly some kind of master hunter, despite being utterly incompetent in his first challenge, where most of the food was caught by his partner Eva. Of course devout Mormon Jeff took credit for her success, crediting his praying while trash-talking feminists.

There's a lot of things that don't add up and the show was clearly edited to paint certain people as heroes and villains, with Shane being painted as heroic and self-sacrificing as he climbs a tree to gather fruit for his starving teammates while Honor is painted as an idiot for trying the same thing. (For the record, truly selfless people do not talk to a camera about how God is blessing them for being selfless.)

What's really vexing is how the final Team of Six get written off as lazy and selfish when they're the ones who practiced smart, real survival techniques while everyone else was wandering around the woods failing to hunt or showboating for the camera. I will give credit to EJ, however, for noting on his social media that there was a lot more sharing between the two camps than the show depicted and indeed he singled out Alana and Danielle for sharing their fruit rations with him and Jeff in exchange for the eel - something that was cut from the show entirely because it would have destroyed any attempt to make the selfish veggie girls look evil.

If you liked Naked & Afraid, or seeing someone's butt crack, you will love this show. To be fair they were shooting for 40 days, they can't do a perfect job every day. I guess they did not want to be accused of plagiarizing other "reality" shows so they did what they could to make this show unique. Filming 12 people for 40 days gave them a huge collection of footage of which to take clips from and assemble them into stories. You may think that the plot of a show about survival is find food, drinking water, and shelter. Well, they did some of that, but not much. However it appears that they were only able to find a little bit of food, and went hungry until they started killing the electric eels, which is not what really happened.

Rather than make a documentary about this project, they assembled clips to make little stories, such as Shane could not make any friends in his group, ( they started out divided into 4 groups ) He wound up alone in his own camp in a little shelter that couldn't keep the rain out, cold and alone and he prays to God and asks for help, the next day these 2 guys from another team come along and he joins their team and has 2 good friends. They are not afraid and I don't believe they were really naked. In post production they added hundreds of blurs, and there are SO many other things that suggest this show is not on the level, that I assume they must have something to hide ( it sure isn't large breasts ). This could be a good show if they had some competent people edit the footage and replace the narrator with voice overs from the naked people.

The normal Naked and Afraid was good to great - XL is awesome. It's been one of the highlights of 2015 - if not THE best TV show of 2015.

This is what I believe to be unscripted and that makes it the best. Better than it's predecessors like Survivor 1-2456, Bear Grylls and mostly all other 'reality' TV.

Naked and afraid is random and thoroughly entertaining. The episode with the electric eel was pure joy to watch, I actually laughed out loud.

The group dynamic, mixes of sexes and stunning environment of Columbia - for 40 days - makes it a must watch.

I'm excited to see what comes next...

(side note, i'd love to see them do an Australian version)

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.

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.

I haven t seen the other series but judging by the first episodes I'm like: " is this thing for real" A lot of times seems like is following a script. I highly doubt human body can survive and perform tasks in that heat with 300-500 cal a day. How do those people survive for so many days? They lack of basic survival skills. Building shelter hole day without water supply on a 40C heat.. They have lakes/river but can't catch fish..Shane cant make a fire with a flint or catch fish with a basket?Jesus.. who picked those guys and who rated them? And then Dani and Alana they're so lazy.. Not mentioning that first priority should be covering your genitals as they are the most prone to infections and bites etc, especially for women. Chris and Luke started well but then proved 0 skills in hunting and fishing. The only ones that actually do something is EJ and Jeff.

And seriously, why do they have to be naked? Even neanderthals had some sort of clothes made of animal skins and plants.

Season 3- Pay attention to the sexist bragging asshole, put said asshole in power, add other extremely weak complicit male idiots to support the sexist bragging asshole, discount the contribution of females, and produce a crappy TV show. Doesn't that sound exactly like the story of Trump? Then, introduce a muscular male with borderline personality disorder. So eager to NOT step up and openly discount females, but very eager for others to know about his terrible past to gain sympathy so he is not responsible. The show could be good without the desperate craving and decision making aimed at pissing people off to get ratings. You suck.

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.

I am so upset about the xl version basically it starts like a real show in season 1 i liked it i guess its just because i didnt get used to it yet . But after the next seasons especially the season 4 its so irritating and makes me so mad that its all scripted edited and manipulated . You see the survival situation goes okay with the tribe and from nowhere they decide to just start high school drama for noreason , for the producers it's more like wanting a drama show in a wildness with naked people more than creating a real tv show that intertanes people and make people learn some stuff about survival technics . I am at episode 9 season 4 rn and I I am just so mad . Making up arguments for no reason just to make the show more dramatic however sometimes they have food and water and good shelter but they start to fight for the stupid reasons and its so obvious thats it is fake .