What’s Wired This Month? Number one on the list is one of my favorite new shows, Survivorman:
On Survivorman, there are no back-stabbing contestants, silly tribal councils, or bogus immunity challenges. There is only Les Stroud, a Canadian filmmaker and outdoorsman who in each episode ventures into an inhospitable, far-flung locale (the Arctic Circle, Georgia swamplands) with little more than the clothes on his back and a 50-pound bag of video gear. His mission: Endure seven long days all alone in each uniquely punishing ecosystem, chronicling his successes (finding a puddle of water deep in a Utah canyon) and failures (getting lost in the depths of a Costa Rican jungle). In the process, he demonstrates how to snare a snowshoe hare with wire from a wrecked airplane and the proper technique for eating a wriggling scorpion like it’s a jalape?o popper. The result: an hour of heart-pumping, stomach-churning reality adventure with the MacGyver of the Science Channel.
Man vs. Wild isn’t bad either.