Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

mapofmyuniverse 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.

randymcbeast 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.

starmanmatt 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.

irinaum 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.