It’s a rare entry in the reality show genre – a series that entertains and educates.
For 10 years, Naked and Afraid has gone from the deepest recesses of the Brazilian rainforests to the most arid deserts of Africa and taught viewers what it takes to survive the planet’s most brutal environments with no resources, not even clothes on backs.
Inspired by Survivor, the long-running CBS series where contestants are dropped onto a remote location to fight to be the final victor and winner of $1 million, Naked and Afraid distinguished itself by replacing randomly picked contestants with trained, experienced survivalists, and by eliminating the “dog-eat-dog” spectacle of competitive reality television.
By doing this, the show became a study in not only physical endurance, but in psychological stamina, ingenuity, and social synergy, a true anthropological experience.
Certainly, there’s a titillation factor associated with the show.
The survivalists truly are naked, a concept…
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