has pitted animals and athletes against each other, but at least America has moved away from making a team of dwarves pull an airplane in a race against an elephant.thankfully narrowed it down to a single species and dropped at least some of the exploitation. But it’s still so, so stupid. “Hello, humans!” host Brandon Tierney says in his first line of, making sure that we are immediately aware that these relatively hairless, musclebound fleshbags are not, in fact, grizzly bears.
But taking perverse pleasure in the bears’ savaging of the competitors is the point. Watching these hyper-fit goofballs fail in seconds is a parody of athletic competitions like, where competitors all have inspirational backstories lighting a fire beneath them. It’s easy to laugh when the bear battlers talk about tug-of-warring a bear for their daughter. “Yes, sweetie, you can do anything you set your mind to when you grow up, as daddy proved by eating a bunch of bugs in a race against a bear.
Revelling in the foolishness it takes to sign up for a show like this, the commentators sound like they’d be perfectly happy if someone lost a limb to Bart. Steve, the 63-year old bodybuilder who comes out on top of the first episode, scratches his arm during the first event and the medic wraps him like he’s sporting a WWI gunshot wound. Casey Anderson, the nature expert color commentator, says that the “big gash” could distract the bear by making it think that there’s “fresh meat.
JacobOller There was an entire, short-lived series called 'Man vs. Beast' on Fox in the early 2000s that had this same ridiculous premise.