Last week, I was on an airplane to London while Naked and Afraid XL, Episode 2 was airing in the U.S.. By the time I had arrived at my hotel, the comments made it clear that this episode was a whole new level of insanity. Everyone was buzzing about Honora’s trip to coo-coo-town. So when I got home from London yesterday, I shrugged off my jet-lag and sat down to catch up on the crazy.
I have asked Discovery Channel for advanced access to the episodes of Naked and Afraid XL, but because of the heavy amounts of blurring and pixilation that each episode requires, the often don’t get completed until shortly before air. So I’m watching the episodes as they air and am trying to get caught up. Someday I will catch up.
On to the show! In the Naked and Afraid XL premiere, we saw Hakim fall to dehydration. Based on the harsh Columbian location, I’m sure he won’t be the last.
A week ago, 12 survivalists were given the challenge of surviving 40 days in the Colombian badlands. They’ve been divided into four groups in the area’s four distinct topographies.
Jeff, Hakim and EJ begin their journeys in the hot and volcanic Roca Diablo (Devil Rocks), but Hakim tapped out on day 4.
Laura and Eva are in the scrubby desert of Rio Negro (Black River), but Dani, the third member of their groups, has yet to find them.
In the swampy jungle of Cano Verde (Green Canyon), Luke, Chris and Honora and are in an uneasy holding pattern.
In El Bosque (The Forest), Alana and Danielle worry that their partner Shane may be mentally unstable.
Day 7
Chris, Luke and Honora look for fruit. Honora is a rock climber and thinks she can climb 20 feet to the fruit, but Luke and Chris are worried about her safety and dissuade her. Honora thinks her teammates aren’t giving her the respect she deserves. This may come back to haunt them.
Alana finds a tortoise and brings her pet back to camp. Shane is stunned that she doesn’t want to eat it; he is sooo hungry and is sad to see dinner crawl away. But he’s trying to play nice and is more in control than I would have expected.
Dani is still solo and her week of solitude is messing with her psyche. She sets off in search of others and finally finds Eva and Laura. They are so pumped to see her!
Suddenly, with the three friends laughing together, this experience doesn’t seem so terrible!
Honora isn’t deterred in her fruit hunt, but she is able to climb to a piece of fruit, but the men pooh-pooh her efforts. Meanwhile, they haven’t brought anything to the potluck.
Jeff and EJ are hot and bothered in their camp; they are desperate for water.
The super girls use Dani’s net to catch minnows. Yummers.
That night, everyone is collectively eaten by bugs.
Day 9
Luke, Chris and Honora take a long swim and haven’t found anything to eat. Honora is dizzy and blacking out. She passes out in the sun, just like when she passed out in Brazil.
Shane goes hunting for a big rat with his homemade bow. I thought that he brought it, but it appears that he made it — which is awesome — and his survival item is a metal water bottle.
Laura catches and kills a lizard, but when she beheads it, he’s filled with worms. The women must decide if they want to risk getting infected with a dangerous pathogen or going hungry. Food wins.
EJ and Jeff finally find water after hacking thorny, black palm trees for several hours.
Day 10
Honora and her teammates are running on empty. Honor’s request for rest turns into a tirade. It culminates to with Chis yelling at her (calls her “Sour Sally”) and telling her to tap out. Clearly, Chris is not Team Honora. Honora throws her bow drill kit into the fire, grabs Luke’s knife, her machete and throws them into the river. Luke shows what a fantastically calm person he is by not murdering Honora. Chris is furious at the sabotage.
EJ and Jeff are thiiiiiis close to catching a snake and are frustrated that they haven’t caught anything. So Jeff takes out his fishhook and through the magic of TV, they instantly catch a whopper of a meal! And EJ and Jeff — being EJ and Jeff — scream triumphantly at their food. These two are such visceral hoots.
Over on the crazy train, Honora grabs Luke’s’ water bottle and tosses it into the water. She’s glad that she has put Chris at a disadvantage. And Luke pretty much loses his s!@# at her. He may have the patience of a saint, but he’s not a doormat.
Does anyone else think that Honora and Shane may be perfect for each other? How long will Horrible Honora stay around to torture her teammates? Will Naked and Afraid have its first fist-fight?
The season-long XLR is the survival rating of the team, which fluctuates as the teams find success and failure. In the second episode, the team’s scores are as follows:
With the loss of Hakim, EJ and Jeff’s PSR has fallen from 7.9 to 7.1 out of 10.0
Eva, Laura and Dani’s PSR rises from 8.2 to 8.6 out of 10.0
Danielle, Alana and Shane’s PSR dips from 7.6 to 7.3 out of 10.0
Luke, Chris and Honora’s PSR plummets from 7.8 to 6.6 out of 10.0
Survival Stuff
Jeff: Fishhook
Hakim: Magic ninja blade
EJ: Unknown (Maybe a pot?)
Laura: Bow Drill kit
Eva: Pot
Dani: Mosquito net
Luke: Water Bottle (Lost)
Chris: fishing kit (Lost)
Honora: Bow Drill kit
Danielle: Unknown
Alana: Unknown
Shane: Metal Canteen
What I can’t seem to figure out is if Honora’s personal item is a bow-drill kit (for fire making), where did she get the machete from? Same with Chris’ knife, I thought he had a pot? Seems like they have more than just 1 personal item.
I believe they said that each group is provided with a machete and/or a bow drill kit in addition to 1 personal item???? They did not make it very clear what tools each group had. After Honora went psycho, I did not understand why Honora was allowed to leave with what became “her” knife.
Seems to me Alana and Danielle need the psychological help. Are they man-haters? Shane seems eager to win and has two lazy women who like to lay around and criticize his every effort while they sleep in the shelter he built and eat the fruit he got for them. They were critical when he missed the Capybara with the bow and arrow but I didn’t see them do anything to secure food for the team. Someone should have taped Alana’s mouth shut before they dropped her in Columbia because it’s deadliest weapon on the series. I hope the two women have to tap out. Their cruelty to a team mate is disgusting.
Guys my heart went out to Shane when he cried ! He did so much for Danielle and Alana and they were lazy brats that didn’t help at all ! Since Shane left they had to get the food ! Those girls are jerks to him and i would love to be friends on facebook with that sweetheart !!!
I totally agree. These two women are total bitches. Just because he has a rough past, they are prejudice toward him. He should have made them move out of the shelter he built.
Sorry for the swearing but the more i watched them two the madder i got oh and mighty funny after Shane separated himself from them Alana gets off her ass and makes a basket and goes to catch a fish she sure wasn’t doing anything while Shane was around
Are u fuckin kidding me, Alana and Danielle are so immature and ignorant all they did was sit on their ass and make fun and put Shane down. grow up girls that’s a real mature thing to do when ur suppose to be a team i hope both of them get what they deserve what goes around comes around
I came to this site to see if anyone had the same opinion I did about Alana (bitch) and Danielle. The first response was exactly what I was feeling and looking to see if it was just me or more agree. Thank you, I am not the only one.
I agree with you. Alana and Danielle should have a survival rating of zero for the way they’ve treated Shane. I feel terrible for him. they are truly bitches.
Alana’s for real the worst.
I liked this show until they put idiots, arrogant bully’s, and slackers from previous episodes on this new show……….pick people who can actually work together to try to survive……shame on the producers
Requirements to eat with other groups: standing broad jump over cayman eggs/bare knuckle boxing/oral coconut separation/listening to Alana talk backwards/ant trapping with hair basket (Dani’s)/fire suppression drills with own feet…
It makes a lot of sense that the turtle was removed because it is endangered. However, why were they not told going in that turtles in that area were endangered or tell them after they caught it? I don’t understand why they would let them think there pin sucked and allow them to continue to hunt turtles.
Honora is very unstable and one of the worst people I have ever seen. She treated her first partner like crap from day 1. Her interaction with him was some if the most dispicable behavior I have ever seen on this show. I didn’t think it could be done but she topped it with her sabotage of her new partners. Disgusting person. Good riddance.
I agree with Laura Baum. While I do feel that Honora should have been given a chance to fetch the fruit by climbing a tree, I equally understand her partners didn’t want to see her fall and possibly get severely injured. She takes this as a slight and starts brooding, getting moodier and angrier with each passing minute. But when she takes all their survival tools not once, but twice, and submerges them in the mud? That is the most disgusting, selfish, shameful behavior I’ve ever witnessed on this show. I hope her team trashes their shelter and move far away from this psycho bitch. In a word, what she did was disgusting. I agree, Laura! Good riddance!
Kellie Freeze,
I like your day by day reporting of what you see happening. I hope you catch up with episode 3 soon. I gave my comments on what I saw in an earlier post.
Questions? Do you think Shane has ever received an act of kindness from another person? He isn’t getting any from his partners or am I missing something? Maybe DC is leaving out the good stuff and slanting it? Do you know from your contacts with the production people? Since Honora did not meet the stated criteria of surviving a 21 day challenge; why was she on XL?????
I try to keep in mind that DC cannot fabricate a clip of someone saying or doing something if they don’t actually do it. However, they can slant it by leaving out stuff.
Seems to me the guys may have wanted honora to leave. As soon as she was gone they started collecting plenty of food. They even encouraged her to tapout.
Just like what happened with Chris and his first partner. They had all this trouble, he kept flirting with her and harassing her until she quit… then suddenly he started displaying the expert hunting and fire-making skills he couldn’t make work days earlier.
I have no sympathy for Honora, but I do believe Chris was bullying her and Luke went along with it after Honora’s first fit.
That does bring up an odd point about the editing though. Last week, the all-women team was doing the best and they were the only group to have their PSR go up where as Luke, Chris and Honora couldn’t find any food except for the fruit Honora gathered. Now all of a sudden the all-women group is being treated like they’re on the bring of starvation while Luke and Chris are doing well, living on nuts?
Matt, you seem to be trolling along with quibbling criticisms of the men who have the gonads to assert themselves. None of them are pussy whipped so get over it!
There’s a world of difference between asserting yourself and being a macho idiot. And this show has featured a LOT of macho idiots.
Get over it and enjoy the show and the group dynamics.
It is a TV show. Don’t take it personally.
Honora was brought on as eye candy..
Yeah, and soon as they started ‘thriving’ the hungry and ‘frightened of a predator’ women showed up…great. They will stoop to new lower lows than thought possible by those worthless and obnoxious men.. Pathetic. They only know ONE way to survive; find a man, ride him like a surfboard, fleece him of every dollar then when he dies, find another that has money, repeat. Parasites, American style. How many men are supported by this STRONG awesome woman that are sooooo abundant out there (besides Oprah and her ilk) a few out of HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS in this country.. Those awesome feminists will latch on to those guys like lepers to molokai if it serves them… mysoginy my arse, look up the word misandrist.. ie; alana the awesome, Danielle (we are doing fine w/out men), Bambi the hippie who’s best ‘skill’ is critiquing OTHERS building her lodge, etc..etc.. Guys need to show REAL survival and chase their goldbricking assessment away… Pathetic parasites; one and all.
Hi Shane! Nice to see you joining the conversation!
Kellie, thanks for returning to your fans!
Kellie, thanks for returning to your fans.
Episode 2 and 3. The plot thickens and the disturbed and petulant Honora is gone!
Chris recovers the tools from the river and he and Luke begin to prosper. Dani J feels “odd man out” and goes exploring and finds Chris and Luke. They share food with her and later all play in the water. Dani J says they are having fun. Chris and Luke are impressed with Dani J.
Dani J decides to rejoin her group and express her feeling of being left out by the other two.
EJ and Jeff continue with some success and not so funny errors. The demonstrations of hyper masculinity remain.
In the group of Shane, Alana and Dani B. Shane continues his Hyperactivity. Alana and Dani B continue their criticism and backbiting of Shane while doing nothing except for Alana to release the only food they have found (turtle). Finally Shane tells them he is aware of what they are doing and decides to leave them alone to do their own work (wonder how that will work for Alana and Dani B?).
I hope all of them succeed and get down to the business of survival and end the superfluous drama.
Nature will supply the drama.
episode 2
One thing I can’t believe in all the fan commentary is that so many people are ready to believe that Alana – the first person to survive the Naked and Afraid challenge solo, going over half the challenge without a partner – would release food that their team needed. Or that she survived for a week and a half by just lying around on her own.
Dani B. revealed on her Twitter feed that the turtle incident occurred on Day 3 when they were doing well on supplies. And Alana revealed on her Facebook that it turned out the turtle was an Endangered Species and the producers would have stepped in and stopped them if they had decided to eat it. Come to think of it, that may explain how the turtle EJ and Jeff caught was able to escape…
Regardless, I find Shane’s whining amusing. His complaints about needing a store-bought bow to shoot properly, his insistence that he isn’t a misogynist when he spent most of his first challenge complaint to his partner about how women have no business hunting. His talk about Alana’s first partner working himself to death while she lay around was especially rich. And I’m going to look forward to laughing at all the Team Shane supporters when he washes out and Alana and Dani B. make it to Day 40.
You and your warm and fuzzy unicorn world… you’d be on a spit and eaten by day 9. The only way to shut that hole under your nose would be with stomach acids in our bellies. Pray you never find yourself in woods in need of ‘help’. “Help” is a buzzword for apex predators to eat, well. PC and survival don’t coexist lassie.. Clothed and confident is funny as you ate STILL prey… now go read another book on how awesome you are. Ir, watch ANOTHER Ellen/Oprah video.. just do us one favor, put a lot of SALT I your lil Scooby-Doo back pack so we can get your bitter taste down…with pleasure! Cling-on; we’ll hear you ROAR all right! Lofao***
You make me laugh, little boy. Not quite so hard as I imagine the women laugh at your posturing. But I thank you for this amusement at the end of a hard day. It is not unlike the sensation of watching newborn puppies pretending they are wolves as they attack a knotted rope. Very soothing. 🙂
I’m with you, JC. Alana and Dani B laid around and criticized Shane while he did all the work. Seems awful arrogant and condescending considering they were contributing nothing to the efforts. Laughing at him, mocking him when he missed game with his makeshift bow and arrow, that’s not team work or support. Not sure what their problem is, but there is definitely some poor attitudes on some of the teams. I see a preview where Shane goes off on his own. Good for him, but it’s sad he couldn’t have gotten support from his team mates. At least he didn’t go psycho and throw all their survival tools away. Lol
That’s because Shane lacks that courage or conviction. Instead he’s going to go into the forest and cry about how everyone hates him.
Say what you will about Honora but she stood up to the people bullying her… however suicidal her reaction would be in a real survival situation.
I hope Honora is next to go. If I was with someone like that in a true survival instance, the answer would lie somewhere between murder and abandonment.
The XLRs are total BS at this point.
* Chris and Luke have their score go up because Honora tapped out. Granted that she was the weak link of the group numerically (the starting XLRs were an average of the groups individual PSRs), you’d think there would have been some kind of penalty for her quitting when they took points off of the all-male group when Hakim tapped out for medical reasons.
* The all-women group loses nearly a whole point (8.6 to 7.7) because of Dani’s wandering off, even though they all made up re: Dani feeling shut-out by Eva and Laura before the episode’s end and agreed that Dani’s scouting alone paid off.
* The all-men group isn’t penalized for being outwitted by a turtle.
I agree that the XLRs are pretty useless; I think we could assign better number!
i believe they were outraced by the turtle, not outwitted
It’s not a proud moment either way.
I do have a theory though. Alana and Dani B. revealed on Facebook that they were told by The Producers to be careful about handling any other turtles like that if they saw them because they turned out to be an endangered species. So they couldn’t have eaten it even if Alana hadn’t argued in favor of letting it go.
A lot of people joked about EJ and Jeff catching the same turtle on-line. Maybe the reason it “escaped” was that The Producers had to step in before they got in trouble with the Columbian government or some such?
Shane did not make that bow himself. It was a primitive bow that was provided for him by the producers.
Shane seems like your typical Men’s Rights Activist – whine and moan about how everything is the fault of women, how they don’t appreciate you, how you’re really a nice guy, etc. Then go and whine about you need a store-bought bow.
Alana and Dani will do just fine without him.
Maybe Shane acted without thinking things through, but he seems to be trying his heart out.
How do you know he was given that bow? Without your source, The show makes it seem like he made a bow and tried to use it to hunt…
The ladies let a turtle go by. If Shane was that chauvinistic (or smarter), perhaps he would’ve stopped that.
A fair request.
Kellie Freeze herself noted that Shane’s pre-picked survival item was a bow and arrows – as in, it was provided for him. And Dani B revealed on her Facebook page that she was the one who made new arrows for Shane after he exhausted his original quiver-full… because he had no fletchery training.
I’d recommend checking out Dani’s Facebook page. She’s apparently been getting death threats from Shane fans and wrote out a lengthy article explaining how the show’s editing wasn’t showing that she and Alana were working to maintain the camp during the day when they weren’t resting and that they were hunting and foaraging in the early day/early evening when it wasn’t so hot.
“we were maintaining camp”
What the fuck is there to maintain?
“we were foraging when it wasn’t so hot”
IT WAS ALWAYS HOT. They were sleeping all day dude get over it
That doesn’t explain their nasty behavior, talking behind his back, making fun of him because he missed a shot etc….. They are childish and immature.
I have been confused if Shane made his bow or brought it. At first, I thought he brought it (episode 1, when he stormed off to play with his bow), but in Episode 2 he was drinking out of a metal canteen and the women were laughing at his lack of success. The canteen could certainly be one of his teammates. Matt, your comment makes sense that the producers provided him with a primitive bow; it is too well made for him to have made it in a few days without all of his efforts dedicated to sourcing and whittling the wood. When I watch Episode 3 tonight, I will update his survival item.
Thank you, Kellie. I’m an archer myself so I have an eye for these things and little patience for amateurs like Shane who blame the equipment for their lack of skill. Most of the archers I know prefer simpler bows without all the bells, whistles, weights and pulleys on those store-bought Academy Sports models. And all those do is make it easier to draw the bow. They do nothing to improve their aim.
And while we’re on the subject – a shot out to Dani B., because I haven’t seen anyone comment on this anywhere. How awesome is it that she was helping Shane by acting as a spotter while he was hunting, even though she’s a vegetarian and HATES seeing animals get hurt? Wish the show had noted that she was putting her opinions aside in an effort to try and help Shane accomplish something.
Shane just said on Facebook he made the bow and it took him 6hrs.
Oops I meant 16 hours not 6!
Wow! Thanks for finding that info, LD!
I am really impressed at Shane’s ability to forge a bow in the wild! I’m not sure which impresses me more: the fact that Shane was able to find wood hard enough to make a bow, or that he had 16 hours to make it — in addition to all of the wood-chopping he’s done.
Well, that’s just great.
*smacks forehead like Columbo*
Oh! One just one more question… where did he get the material for the bow string?
Don’t put too much stock in mats 2 cents; Matt would b eaten on hr 3 by others. Kinder gentler means dinner in survival.
what the heck that’s crazy. okay he’s not perfect by inclination but he is TRYING and certainly the girls are not trying at all to be accommodating. They just snipe at him all day long and sit around benefiting from his hard work. They say he is moody and unpredictable and well i would be pretty moody and unpredictable if i had some nasty skinny texas girl making nasty comments every five minutes when i was bringing food for her and she’s sleeping all day long in a bed i made. shane is controlling himself and doing his best to get along with the others. don’t blame him for trying. anyway the texas chick also sabotaged her own partner in the 21 day show. she’s difficult.
How did Alana sabotage her partner during the Fiji challenge?
I remember her being a bit short with him but that’s because the jackass was cutting down trees and trying to make furniture when they had no food, no fire and no clean water.
Hmmm… cutting down trees for no good reason and failing to hunt. Why does that sound familiar?
I agree with you forku. I didn’t see much out of the women, but what bothered me was while Shane was doing a lot of work they just sat and mocked him, laughed at him, and generally treated him pretty poorly. Sure, they went on a hunt with him, so they could laugh at every missed shot, mocking him behind his back. Doesn’t seem much like a team effort there. And now we will hear more from Matt who thinks Shane’s and idiot, the women are rock stars, and I bet he’d even like to marry Honora. I say good riddance to all of them!
I agree also, all Alana seems to do is talk about Shane behind his back if she would get off her ass and do something she wouldn’t have time to sit around all day and be a rude mean bitch.
just like the protein bars provided to Danielle
Alana or the hippie baby go next… they’ll get hungry; or maybe a ‘predator’ will keep them awake. Watch, they will all pair up now (only way girls make it) as show goes on… guys are doing fine!
No way. Shane will wash out way before Alana. That girl is smart and fierce. Shane’s an idiot who didn’t have the sense to direct his anger against the fruit trees when he was cutting wood so he wouldn’t have to go climbing them.
Then again, since that would deny him the chance to show off how selfless he is, risking his life to get Dani fruit…
I know! I was wondering why Shane didn’t turn his focus from chopping down one tree to chipping down the fruit tree. Firewood + food = success!
Because Shane is an asshole who only cares about other people in so far as it gives him the opportunity to stroke his own ego. Why the hell else would he be giving a faux-humble speech about how God enabled him to get the fruit to help others. Looks like Shane never got any survival training but Jeff taught him something about how to be a Holy-Rolling asshole.
I would chop down a tree for firewood that does not produce a food resource for me for 40 days rather than what does provide…
2 Birds with one stone is NOT a success in this scenario.
Matt, whats wrong with U? Is Alana Kin to U?
No. I just have a low tolerance for macho jackasses like Shane who blame all their problems on women.
Are you sure your name is not Alana ? M.Morison
Alana is the next one to show weirdness.. feminist all powerful.. now build my camp, I’m hungry, your mean, shutup, Lee me alone, go away… now let me talk about you… ugh..women and their draaaama
Funny. I think Shane is the whiner among them. All that crap about needing a store-bought bow? Ridiculous. He’s no more a survivalist than I’m a vernicious knid.
I felt Shane was simply expressing his frustrations. He believes he can but failed. I don’t blame him, it’s better than doing nothing. Letting that turtle go was a much more serious offense. Shane’s offense, in that situation at least, didn’t negatively effect thw group’s chances. Leaving behind opportunities to eat does.
I’d say Shane’s cutting down the trees shading their shelter adversely effects their chances of survival. It’s a waste of his energy and time.
Shane is an ass. Was on his first appearance continues on this one too!!!!!
Shane is not a person who should still be on here he was an asshole on his first go around…why was he brought. Back
Just the same as Honora, he was brought back to follow the script of the show 🙂
not all women… but alana yes she’s difficult. on a scale from honora to bo derick she’s about a three or four.
Given that in Alana’s first challenge she had to deal with a sexist idiot with less training than her who wasted time cutting down trees for no reason and – after letting their fire go out after falling asleep on watch – wasted a day trying to design furniture while she was making fish baskets and trying to make a new fire… yeah, I can understand why Alana is short with Shane. She’s probably having PTSD flashbacks of Fiji and the last time she had to babysit a man-child.
Sir or Ma’am, out of respect please dont mention PTSD if you don’t know the seriousness of it as compared to a TV show..
Are they ALL like that or what? Drama, lies, no loyalty. Dani is two faced parasite (live off others) that will sell out in 3 seconds…
Yeah, she’s my prediction for next tap out
dani’s fine. she’s right to feel a little left out with the girls. she shouldn’t have pretended she wasn’t seriously considering going to the guys. the guys like her and would have welcomed her. instead she is invading their camp with her two friends.
It’s a show duffuss.. Real world she’d never been seen again; milk carton poster child. Human leech that will do anything to be ‘friends’. On fire, turning slowly for a nice meal; we’d keep her Lil burlap sack and use it for her feet as they don’t look like anything but cayman treats.. if these girls swarm the men (predictable) this show has reached new low… like Shane said “not on my back, EARN IT!”
Don’t you have a Gamergate thread you should be replying to?
I find it interesting how those same gander pairings have little interpersonal conflicts.
Run like hell if a woman approaches your camp, she needs something. All powerful until hungry or scared witless. Shtf planning just changed BIGTIME. Parasites..
Sadly, it’s true. Embarrassing to say least. Ugh…
Honora needed to bring some Prozac as a survival item
I know! I hope she gets her act together and the help she needs.
I’m more inclined to be upset with the producers. Looking at Honora’s social media, I noticed that she had a service dog for PTSD. And the groups that train those dogs do not just hand those out. I don’t think she was psychologically capable of doing this challenge but the producers didn’t much care.
Honors has borderline personality disorder, psych meds won’t help. The service dog might help some. I am certain the producers knew of the disorder since they must psych test all cast members. Honora needs some cognitive behavioral therapy.
Honors did Nothing on her first appearance why was she brought back…….why were all the other whining do nothing’s brought back for a second chance….shame on you producers……I used to like this show