However chilly you may really feel this winter, relaxation assured it may very well be worse. How a lot worse? For the 16 “lone wolf” contestants signed up for the acute survivalist competitors sequence Outlast, it will get dropped-into-the-Alaska-wilderness chilly.
On Netflix’s newest competitors sequence, these hearty challengers search to outlast each other by weeks within the wild, hoping for a million-dollar prize. There is, nevertheless, one twist.
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“Their only rule,” says government producer Emma Ho, “is they have to be a part of a team if they want to win.” And that workforce doesn’t should be the one they began with. Cue the backstabbing and sabotage. “It very quickly turns into Lord of the Flies/Hunger Games,” says Ho.
With various ranges of expertise and few provides obtainable in one of many harshest environments on the planet, gamers want to search out meals within the snowy terrain, whereas often being pelted with freezing rain. But surviving Mother Nature isn’t all the time the cruelest check.
“It’s also about learning to survive each other, how to play on this team and be a part of this ecosystem,” says Ho of the psychological recreation. “How do people interact with one another when they’re at their most vulnerable?”
Outlast, Friday, March 10