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There is a UK version of Alone filming in Canada. The article said that the participants are not of the same caliber of the US cast. One dude axes his own leg only hours to landing and is medically yanked Day 1. Another is undone by her tarp. Can't wait for the eye rolling to begin.

Anybody else thinking Laura was plotting to pillow suffocate Ayesha on one of her permanent night shifts before she was yanked off the boat? She was a camera hog that took every opportunity to throw Ayesha under the bus with the producers acting as her audience. Her taking her sweet time to get ready for nights off the boat shouldn't have been tolerated, they should have left her to take her own narcissistic taxi. That was only Charter 3? This is an excruciatingly slow season....

His aerial birthday celebration is a bear deterrent flare given to the participants to protect themselves if they find themselves nose to nose with one. That's what his facetious speech about protecting his food stores was about before he lit up the sky with a whoop for good measure.

But wait...there's more...did everyone go to sleep and miss the finale that followed the bloated primitive fire episode? Or was it the endless shark commercials that drove you away from your teevee? It was a nail biter.... The name of the winner is in the box.

Longtime fans will recall that Brooke Whipple in Season 4/Couples Season made a BFD of choosing soap as one of her items. Hope Cade had enough common sense to bring unscented soap instead of Axe.

Perhaps it was the diarrhea? Sorry to ruin your appetite for your next meal or snack! Seriously, how lazy are you to not bolt out of your sleeping bag when you get the rumbles and violent lower bowel churning as a prelude to explosive diarrhea...no one has the sphincter control to hold back that dam about to burst.

Imma willing to bet Mads was having her pre period bloat and awaiting Auntie Flo when Gary visited her Downtown (cue Petula Clark) District. Agreed. That snippet is newest lowest of low for the show but not for Gary.

Trent dropping almost 10% of his body weight has his pre diabetes numbers under control because at Jonah's reckoning dinner both he and Jonah were drinking hard liquor neat(for you non hard boozers that means no ice). Should Jonah be drinking adult beverages while he is on the wagon? Or is it the Amber Johnston's Addict Clinic's rules of no synthetic drugs but organic distilled booze gets the director's A-OK. Maybe get a family discount at the biometric clinic with both Jonah and Liz sending their dookies in the same envelope for scientific analysis and weight loss guidance...just saying.

Brice will go to his HVAC job, make a paycheck. Come home, have his supper, relax by doing his taxidermy. On Weekends fish, hunt, hangout with family. Salt of the earth, loyal, reliable, loving, kind...willing to put up with your whining and talking bad in front of him. Plenty of women that part of the rural Georgia would love to have such a peach. Liz, set him loose and see if you can do better. You can't. You think you can. But you can't, gf.

Jonah wants to complete his F&I Dealership Finance Training which is an inside desk jockey job helping car buyers complete paperwork for their Financial options...cash, loan, trade in combo and all Insurance needs of the customer. We all have sat in one of these finance manager's office if you have purchased a new or used car from a dealership. Actually it is a good job fit for Jonah who hates being outside in the hot and humid Georgia weather and wet or freezing in the winter. He'll make a salary instead of a commission. Trent is more of the guy who likes to schmooze within the sales team and wooing customers using his basic cable teevee fame and aw shucks demeanor.

Need to scrub my eyeballs. The boudoir segment was pure vanity for Amber. Barf.

Poor Mikey. His drop shock is lingering and combined with hunger and homesickness he is a wreck. He says he can turn off all the aspects that will cause him to tap but it seems he has turned the dial to 11. Taz making a tarp canoe that Lee predicted... Taz's cool water bucket. Taz's awesome gill net. The winds make falling trees and under estimating your fire a hazard.

I assumed Anna moved since they filmed the facade during caroling and it would be very easy to identify her home in Forsyth. No need to expose her to additional harassment by well meaning fans and not nice jerks invading her privacy. She mentioned May as the month she wanted to be in a safer place.

Liz has more body mass than Jonah can hold her alcohol better....sorry sweetie, them's the facts. Anna knows Amber would sabatoge her by exploiting any drunken and sloppy behaviors so didn't have a TLC sponsored kegger and open bar 21st birthday party. Respect to Anna for not accepting money from Trent for her therapy. Glad she moved from that house they filmed since she didn't feel safe walking Cruiser. Bet she got verbally harassed by drunken hillbillies.

Skip the first 7 minutes of the show. Cue the retching dry heaving noises. Bryce's family has THs. Joose is the highlight of the episode.

Thanks for confirming my thought balloon when I heard Lee's last name and home community. Lee also gave us two ominous foreshadowing...admonishing himself for carelessly laying his glasses and axe down despite how important both are to him. Lee, tie your spectacles with paracord around your neck..we are all going to yell at our teevee every time we watch you put them on the nearest log. Wrap colored cord around the neck of the ax to make it stand out from the ground and foliage. Fernando took months to make his kayak, one participant took weeks to weave a too small fishing net... Lee whips his paddle raft, his fishing net, his rod and reel and is eating fish from those projects in a matter of a couple of days. Enjoyed how the backstories of the participants enrich the show. Very touching and well done. Cade, you lead people deep into the wild and you cannot retrace your fresh, ginormous foot prints back to recover the 9 arrows? Not good advertisement for your business. I am going to chalk it up to his inability to immediately find his arrows to his brain frying out because he knew he made a big fat avoidable blunder, the guilt he felt about leaving his wife who had a medical and emotional situation and his thinking his advantage over the others and half million slip away. The northern Saskatchewan blueberries look tons more delicious than the ones on my veg bin.

Agree. A well produced behind the curtain show for longtime fans of Alone. Including the tribal elders' blessing the participants and show staff a nice addition. Diverse group that is qualified and not just pretty for the cameras. Thinking how far Alone has come in 10 years, from the worse participants(the knife forging brothers) to the most dubiousfrom the get go to me(the guy who was afraid to leave his fenced yard at home without a firearm) to the winners that would fare poorly against this new group. Giddy up, looking forward to another interesting season.

Poor Liz....the romance is already dun gone. Giddyup girlfriend, you lusted and bedded good ol' boy Brice... reticent, humble and steadfast and now he is yours forever since you enticed him out of his Mama's house. Time to pocket those rose colored, Lifetime movie romance ideas and accept your life is Groundhog Day on a loop. Brice is not going to change, it is stunning to longtime viewers that he is doing THs. Amber must be waving fistfuls of Benjamins off camera. Lizzie, next time your face is deep in the back door of a dead deer with your significant on the other end yanking off the skin, dream of romantic Athens....Georgia, not the one with the Acropolis.

No spoilers... Mistakes made so the lead changes during the last leg. Treacherous swollen river adds to the drama. Winners deserved the half million, anything less would have been a big disappointment for them. Hope the other 2 teams got paid something...maybe depending on the number of legs they completed.

I miss the olden days when at least this show wasn't so heavy handedly over produced, overly scripted and everyone sounding like parrots...repeating the same approved things over and over. As odious as all the Johnsons are on camera, if Joose loves them then there must be something redeemable about these hillbillies. He is such an earnest and likable young man. Jonah doesn't fart without asking Trent and Amber first so the guest list was approved by them when the producers staged the Jenga get together. Fake, fake, fake to quote Elaine Benes (Seinfeld reference)

Jonah resents Alex because they had to share a room but likes his brother more now that Alex stop being a crybaby whiner, runs to Mommy less and is the smartest person on the family, low bar, of course. Jonah resents Elizabeth because she is an over achiever, brown noser and sucks up to their parents to curry their favor. Jonah resents Anna, scapegoating and blaming her for his failing out of college because he had to drive her to high school. He actually didn't do the work and flunked out from laziness. However, their relationship is improving as he is now the worst kid in the family instead of Anna. Doing drugs worse than graffiti. Jonah doesn't care about Emma, doesn't even acknowledge her existence. Jonah's favorite parent: Trent Elizabeth's favorites 1.Anna 2.Emma 3.Alex 4.Jonah-the laziest of the family, loser to flunk out of college Liz's favorite parent: Trent Anna's favorites 1. Emma 2. Liz 3. Alex 4. Jonah Anna's favorite parent:Trent Emma's favorites 1. Anna +Alex 3. Liz 4. Jonah Emma's favorite parent:Trent Alex's favorites 1. Emma 2.Anna 3.Liz 4. Jonah Alex's favorite parent: Amber forced the family to accept all of Alex's childhood idiosyncrasies that he is finally leaving behind

Allie's parents drove her 10 hours to Forsyth so she could go to the Homecoming Dance then the morning after another 10 hour road trip back to the farm. Nice of Joshua to acknowledge Alex in such a supportive manner. Got to see that Elizabeth loves Alex too. Amber and Trent bedroom sign off...barf.

Kate's baby was born...Sullivan Cay Congrats to Mom and Baby Boy.

Anna's winning despite Amber's continued dismissive and detached parenting is worth tuning in to the show even after all these years. Topher was the name of Anna's LP bf at convention. Too bad she fell so hard for him but she made her parents happy, temporarily. Brice's hobby is taxidermy...he'll need a window in his hobby room to let the rotting flesh stench waft out. Alex unpacking his shoes from his backpack sans plastic bags after walking around Allie's farm, ewwww Allie is only 15 years old...where is the stink about her being on the young side to be Alex's gf by Sanctimonious Amber who made a big deal of needing to be 16 years old as the rule in her household? Happy the 7LJ commercials don't bombard us with any Duggars or Plaths or Roloffs but we get the odious Fiancés instead

TMZ reports that Captain Lee has had to step away from Below Deck because of an ongoing nerve condition, leaving aspects of his left side numb and with difficulty walking. Very sad for him.