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A Flash of Beauty: Bigfoot Revealed (2022)
Good until the faked photos near the end
There's an Alaska Bigfoot story near the end where the producers slipped in unrelated drone footage not related to the encounter of the female witness. Was promising until the deceptiveness at the end. Otherwise strong showing with a swerve towards conspiracy.
Alone: The Beast (2020)
Disappointing compared to the original.
Alone: The Beast is a pretty run of the mill survival show, comparable to other 60-minute format shows out there. Part of the show is self filmed and much of the daytime episodes include a camera crew for some shots. Because the contestants are given no equipment and are granted an initial substantial source of food they spend most of their time conserving energy and avoiding any activities of real entertainment value. Also, because it's a fixed term (30 day) survival situation the contestants aren't incentivized to dig in and develop meaningful long-term survival tactics.
This show lacks most of the magic of the original series where you seem to develop a personal relationship with the contestants and learn about who they are and why they're there. If you cut away the life changing money, the competition against other people, the highs and the lows of lone survival, and the season-long wait to see who triumphs, you get this series. I understand the need to refresh the brand and the format but this is just a unmemorable exercise in primitive survivial.