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I've long been a fan of survival series of all types. I was really excited by the idea of Outlast since it takes place in Alaska, and I expected that it would provide the opportunity to learn techniques of survival in one of the most difficult places to live primitively on earth. How cool, right? Yet this series is not about surviving the elements -- there were no discussion on fire building, shelter building, foraging, fishing, or much anything else survival related.

The series is an example of the worst of human behavior -- it is a foray into the evil that some humans will do to others out of greed, which includes -- theft, destruction, deceit, bullying, and mockery. The aggressive gameplay and manipulation was not fun to watch, it merely underscored how some humans can rationalize the harm they do to others -- and how others within their orbit will passively accept, resign without challenging, or turn a blind eye to the misdeeds to avoid confrontation.

I have to wonder if the creators of this show encouraged the behavior perpetrated by the private investigator from Kentucky? This woman has such a heinous unlikable aspect, yet apparently her underhanded behavior was completely acceptable by the producers of this series. It didn't violate the rules, so all good, right? No.

I'm shocked that the producers allowed Jill and her two idiot followers to steal the sleeping bags of the other contestants. In sub- freezing temperatures, how could she even consider doing this? I couldn't believe it was allowed to occur. After that, she also entered another contestant's camp and harrased and began taking apart his camp right in front of him! His only resort would to be to physically attack her- which if course he would not do. She relished the idea if doing this and displayed the most reprehensible behavior- tainting him and smiling while she did it.

I don't remember a more truly disgusting person on television. As sample if what a phoney she was csn be seen when she cried when having to kill a squirrel for food. Apologizing to it and thank it for its "sacrifice"- as if she was a decent, feeling person.

She should have been pulled out of the show as soon as the producers saw her horrible behavior. As far as her life after the show, her friends, relatives and clients must be in shock and embarrassed by her. Shame on Netflix for allowing this to happen.

The first few episodes were good, but it went downhill FAST! It turned into the "Jill and Amber bully show" and the producers should have NEVER let that happen. By the end of 4th to 5th episodes, I couldn't take it any more and I stopped watching. Everyone should stop watching to show we do not condone bullying. I love survivalist shows and there are some great people that got forced off without a say because the producers of this show allowed horrible behavior.

I wish I could have continued watching because many of the others on the show were amazing.

Please put Dawn, Javier, Brian, and Joel on another show!

I'm a huge fan of these types of survival shows. That was until I got to episode 5 of this horrific monstrosity. I immediately stopped watching, and removed it from my watch list. I am not one to go to the public with my opinions; however, I felt the need to say something.

Even after 38 years of living on this Earth, it still astonishes me how greedy, cruel, conniving, and downright evil people can be. This is a sad fact on it's own, but for Netflix to promote such behavior saddens me further. This show was created to award evil individuals and remove hope from those with integrity and honor. The show is truly a disgrace to all mankind.

Now, for the cast. I am not one to easily anger, but it truly got to me that there were good people in this show that suffered from the cruelty of others. Alpha Team was the most despicable members on the show. Completely treacherous and downright evil members. Amber Asay - An "ex" heroin addict (kind of saw that one coming), and Jill Ashock - a selfish, conceited, know it all, and horrific person... were easily the two worst on the show. These are the types of people who would sell their souls for cash and destroy society for pleasure. Justin Court was the third member and also a terrible human being, but I'm unsure if he is as bad as the two females that caused me to stop watching. I truly hope that karma bites them in the rear in "real life".

For the rest of the day, I'll probably not be able to shake this feeling of anger and hopelessness. Thanks Netflix for your assistance in destroying hope for humanity.

Javier was the real winner in this show! Loved him and his true honest character. What a warrior! Absolutely hated the bullying and how messed up Jill is in the head. She's a horrible person and should be ashamed of herself. The way she treated other teams was completely unfair and there should be rules like not allowing other teams to trespass their camp sites. There should be set boundaries. This show ended up being more about how terrible a person can be vs how good you are at surviving in the wild. It was humanity vs evil at this point. Interesting show but terrible, oh and ALPHA SUCKS!! Especially Jill!! Boooo.

If you like to watch psychopaths trying to win a game and whining when they have to eat their own medicine, this is your show. If you are out for great Alaska footage and survival footage with great competitions, skip it. It is all about interpersonal drama and focuses on the creators of it. The creators of the show failed to make this a prestige show with great outdoor challenges. While it make sense to show the rivalry, it shouldn't be the main focus of the show. It just becomes a trashy show due to that. This show doesn't teach you anything about the wild, which I expected. Very unfortunate.

It's very, very difficult to not believe that this show has been set up using improvisational actors following a loose script and a designed plot.

Everything eventually starts playing out like a soap opera with endless convenient moments of discovery and character arcs that would be hard to swallow within fiction, let alone in reality.

Most suspicious of all is the fact that three such irredeemably-vile people as Jill, Amber and Justin would somehow end up on a single team and become soap-opera villains of the first order, complete with psychopathy and delusional levels of projection.

If this is actually real then it's the sort of thing that could destroy any viewer's faith in humanity. I can only hope that it's all a fake-out and that these three people are actors rather than monsters.

First off thank you universe for not letting the bad guys win, the team who really let civilisation slip did not deserve to win a cent and karma balanced them out.

The 'detective' on alpha really showed that her career has taught her how to steal, lie and manipulate all whilst playing the victim "they cant do that (but we can)" mentality and shows what we all think about the policing industry as a whole.

She pulled in 2 like minded souls and put them to work with malicious tasks that albeit they were willing to do for her/them/"the team"

there were good people forced off the show cause of them!

This starts of how you imagine, and it was quite entertaining.

But then some contestants realise that rather than Outlasting the other teams you can just attack them.

Two female contestants raided another survivors camp and started stealing and destroying his things.

He asked them to leave, they refused.

They told him to quit or they would destroy his camp the second he leaves.

He complained this was against the rules but she pointed out there were no rules and no one disagreed with her.

The male contestant didn't want to be violent (especially to a woman) so could do nothing.

The women split up and destroyed his camp piggy-in-the-middle style.

This is just awful.

How the produces stood by and watch this unfold (assuming it is real) is just beyond me.

Is this really what they dreamed of creating?

We had to switch off around episode 5 as it was just nasty.

I am up for freedom of creative expression but this made me feel sick.

I worry for the people who enjoyed this.

Although there are lots of things I dislike on Netflix, nothing has ever made me consider cancelling my subscription as much as this..

I see the reviews being low because the viewers didn't like two of the contestants, not the actual show that was actually pretty good.

Yes the two contestants made me want to punch the screen because they were such terrible humans but the concept and the show was pretty good.

I was very happy to find out that season 2 comes out in a couple weeks because it's a good show and I'm sure they'll one up season one with some more ratings boosting controversy.

As for the two contestants in question, it's a sad fact that there are far too many people like this in the world and we don't like to see it.

THis is one of the worst TV shows I´ve seen in years. We watched it all the way to the end (8 episodes) because once we watched the first 5 (that´s when you want to stop watching how awful human beings some contestants are and you are sick to your stomach of how fake it all seems) because we do like shows like Alone and my husband wanted to finish it. I think this is not "reality TV" as announced. I think this is all scripted. Too many coincidences. And one of the contestants (the older one with white hair) appears in IMDB as an actor in something else. I don´t believe it for one minute. This was terrible. Skip it completely.

I've never watched a show that has made me this physically angry. Amber and Jill should have been kicked off the show. It's really disgusting this aggressive and inhumane behavior was going to be rewarded with money. These two individuals Jill and Amber should be ashamed. The entire world now knows who they are, so they will have to face karma in the long run. Netflix is lowering the bar in quality of film and TV, but this is a new low that was really unnecessary. The producers of the show should be ashamed of themselves for not having stepped in earlier and kicking out these individuals Jill and Amber. Appalling.