Outlast, Surviving in Alaska Autumn-Winter, March 2023

Outlast is an American survival reality competition series. All eight episodes of the first season premiered on March 10, 2023, on Netflix. It is produced by Aggregate Films and Nomad Entertainment, with Mike Odair serving as the showrunner, and Jason Bateman, Grant Kahler, Michael Costigan, Emma Ho, and Odair serving as executive producers.

The series places 16 players, split into four teams, in the Alaskan wilderness, where they must survive off the land with meager supplies. The players, described as "lone wolf" survivalists, must work in teams and are not allowed to play the game by their own. Players can leave the game by firing a flare gun, and the last team remaining wins one million dollars.

Understand human behaviour in difficult conditions of Surviving is always interesting. Can you imagine in Alaska? It is almost a death sentence to go in the autumn, about to enter the winter and they knew it. It's scary. Americans are this way, since "The Walking Dead" i saw that they become very much insensible, and it not just them, they have a big heart, but, when the subject is surviving, the environment get hostile. Was nice to see that in some groups they defended and protected each other, this is important if not, even deaths can occur. They were really patient with Jill, if was me, i would leave her to die there in her ambition. So yeah, it's really interesting, you should watch. 

TEAMS

Outlast Alpha Camp

Amber - has a tragic backstory as a recovering heroin addict and former felon. She works as a yoga instructor in Arizona. Jill and she formed a strong friendship and they were maquinating ideas in how they will get in the final accelerating the process of exiting others. 

Jill - is a private investigator from Kentucky and is proud of being her own boss. She says that she doesn't like to take orders and preach "No Rules" in the game. She has No sense of character or respect by other's feelings.  

Justin - is a blacksmith from Kentucky. Justin is one of the best. Quiet, he thinks more than talk. He also said that is no wrong playing "Dirt" sometimes. In the End he deserts because of Jill paranoids and join to Seth's group. Later in Despair Jill writes a letter against Justin and Seth's group takes him out. He is obliged to give up. ✨

Lee Ettinger -  is a 57-year-old from Bigfork, Montana.  He's a former US Marine who also worked for the Japanese government.  He's also participated in extreme sports since he was a child.

Outlast Bravo Camp

Brian - Is a construction worker from Florida. Brian had a good character, was struggling also, but left Javier alone in the end. He gave up. 

Corey - Works as a bartender in Colorado. Corey and Tim assessed the conditions of the environment and decided that it was best to leave. 

Tim - Is currently unemployed, and he’s from Colorado.

Javier - Is a true lone wolf and a nomad from Ohio. He works as a handyman. He was very strong in the end even when he was alone, he tried to join to Delta Camp but they refused because of Jill. Paul lied because behind he made an agreement with Jill to get in the finals. So, Javier also was obliged to give up. He burned his camp because he knew Jill will go there, she did and saw this big surprise. 

Outlast Charlie Camp

Andrea - Is an engineer from North Carolina. She was the first person to leave the game. 

Angie - Was a military brat as a kid, often moving around a lot. She works as a vacation planner in Texas. Angie was super helpful, whenever they needed her. She was in the "jangada" to take the "fishing instruments" alone in the island. She succeeded and took three. Jordan's team didn't succeeded to take their instruments, so she had enough. Later she got sick, she eat the fish and had a worsening in health leaving the game. 

Seth - Is an electrician from Virginia. Seth is a very quiet person, always helping the group, he wasn't exposed like Jill for example, had not one situation that i dislike him. He has a good self control. ✨

Nick - Is a wrestling coach from Florida. Nick managed to get in the finals with Seth. He was one of the winners.  

Outlast Delta Camp

Joel works as a biomedical engineer in Indiana.

Paul - Is a mining specialist from Tennessee. Paul is politic and made a hidden alliance with Jill to get in the finals. In the end they won. 

Jordan - Works as a construction worker in Colorado. Jordan was trying also create his strategy but he was getting weak, because his "jangada" failed to reach the island to get the "fishing instrument", so they were a while without enough protein, he was hungry and lost a lot of weight and ended up being taken to the hospital. ✨

Dawn - Is a Washington-based rancher, raised around plenty of horses. Dawn and Joel gave up the game, after failing to join Javier. Jill was putting pressure, so they decided to leave. ✨

Resume: 

They were invited to a survival game in Alaska, with the possibility to win 1.000.000 dollars (I don't believe it, but anyway). The series catch your attention because of the place, like Alaska, with low temperatures and unexplored area. We only can imagine how cold this place could be? Can people breath? How is to live in Alaska in the Autumn and Winter? What information can they possible learn about the environment? What kind of Animal species they will find there?

Of what kind of food they can be feeded?

What kind of humans will gonna play survival? How long until they become violent?

The harsh weather conditions accelerated the emotional and physical condition of the participants, so they didn't want to extend until the winter.

Not only in the Autumn, but in the Winter, places like Alaska also has wild fruits, like Blueberries and the Pines. They didn't explore other trees but they concentrated only in the mussels, so the expectator will feel that they should have explored more the vegetation. if adventured more, but they preferred to save energy because they weren't eating So well.

In Alaska, the low Tide starts early in the morning and at 12:48 starts the High Tide. They were in the Neka river region, it's classified as rain forest 

Alaska was better until the fall, when the winter came they were exhausted and unmotivated to continue. 

Jill made things difficult. She was playing "Out of law". No rules. Two remarkable things she did was to steal the sleep bags of her opponent and force two participants to leave (press the trigger of the pistol) after their team were disintegrated. The most ironic to Jill was in the end, when her team also remained with only two people, and in this condition she didn't pressed the trigger of the pistol to leave, instead.

Even in minority against the other group, she persisted. The game organizators decided to end the game giving them a challenge, to achieve the other side of the island and take the gear and a letter. The men won, leaving in the helicopter while looking down Jill and Amber. The broadcast didn't show they taking the Amber and Jill, where them left behind to die in Alaska?

Rating: 10 Stars