The best thing I can say about So You Think You’d Survive? is that it has a sort of gossamer-thin connection to meteorology that might appeal to the subculture of weirdos who’ve been watching the Weather Channel for fun ever since the blue screen and the shoulder pads.
Both were more entertaining than what I watched last night. One of them featured a plain blue background with white lettering superimposed, the other showed people in shoulder pads standing in front of maps. Now, I’m old enough to remember a time when there were only two shows on the Weather Channel. On Sunday, the Weather Channel premiered two of them: So You Think You’d Survive? and Fat Guys in the Woods. These survival shows keep popping up in the damndest places. You’d think we could have at least ghettoized these things to their own network by now. Bill Clinton was president, Destiny’s Child ruled the airwaves, and iPods hadn’t been invented yet.Īnd yet here we are, still churning out and consuming the same low-concept, faux-pragmatic, increasingly cheaply-produced reality shows about surviving this or that imagined wilderness/disaster scenario. Do you know how long it’s been since Survivor premiered on CBS? Fourteen years. It’s 2014, and I am still writing about survival television shows.
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