There is a show called Alone [1] in which 10 participants compete for 500.000 dollars by trying to survive the northern canadian arctic winter as long as possible, up to three or four months. Virtually all footage is filmed by the participants themselves. It's quite engrossing.
I got really into it for a while but decided it was too fake.
There was one fellow in an early season who thrived so well that after setting up camp the first day and establishing his food and water sources for the season, out of boredom he started building tables and shelves.
Eventually he would have assembled a fusion reactor from tree bark but he tapped out after 21 days?
The show said he missed his wife.
I saw on Reddit someone mention the guy was never planning to be on the show more than 21 days and reluctantly got talked into appearing in the first place. The wife excuse was just something the producers made up.
That ruined the magic for me.
The guy was days away from raising a wolf army and conquering Victoria, BC with hand-made trebuchets. He had no reason to tap out.
That page seems to have everything from episode lists to random trivia, but the most important thing, how you can even watch this thing in the first place, seems to be missing. Where might this be watched?
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4803766/