Man vs. Wild Season 2

If you want a documentary that respects its subject, Man vs. Wild Season 2 is available on and right now. The 1-season run is exactly the right length for what it is doing. 194 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. Worth watching in order, from the beginning — the cumulative effect is the point. Start it whenever you need something guaranteed to land.

Man vs. Wild Season 2 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. Man vs. Wild Season 2 approaches its subject with the rigour that makes documentary storytelling worth taking seriously. Season 2 of Man vs. Wild includes 13 episodes. It aired from November 2007 to June 2008. Bear Grylls leads a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2007. What elevates Man vs. Wild Season 2 above most documentary work is a refusal to settle for the easy version of the story. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

Man vs. Wild Season 2 is the kind of documentary you immediately want to recommend to someone else. It stands on its own even without an obvious comparison point. Short enough to finish in a weekend, substantial enough to feel satisfying. The subject drives every choice here, not the other way around. The kind of production you finish and immediately want to read more about.

🎬 Man vs. Wild Season 2 — Episode Guide

Sahara

2007-11-08

In the sun-scorched Sahara Desert, Grylls uses survival tactics of the indigenous people, including eating a scorpion and a sandfish. He also explains how to escape from quicksand.

Desert Survivor

2007-11-15

In the desert, Grylls offers tips on skinning and disemboweling a dead camel for water.

Panama (1)

2007-11-22

Grylls travels to Panama, where he travels in the equatorial heat through mangrove swamps and rain forest, and endures more than 100 mosquito bites and one painful snake bite.

Jungle (2)

2007-11-29

Survival techniques for Panama's mangrove swamps and jungle.

Patagonia

2007-12-06

Grylls parachutes into Patagonia, the southernmost tip of South America, where he first encounters a vast ice field, then forages in a beech forest, wades through a frozen bog and swims through icy water.

Andes Adventure

2007-12-13

In Patagonia, Grylls skins a hare, scales a cliff, tracks a puma, drinks dirty water, and crosses the Perito Moreno glacier, a vast frozen labyrinth of ice caves and crevasses.

Bear Eats

2007-12-20

In this special film Bear Grylls takes us to nature's kitchen. It seems nothing--except maybe the fat of on a camel's hump--is beyond Bear Grylls.

Zambia

2008-05-01

Bear Grylls ventures into the landlocked country of Zambia in Southern Africa. Before heading into the bush, he shows you how to survive some of the world's biggest rapids.

Namibia

2008-05-09

Grylls parachutes into the heart of the Namib desert. He eats a puff adder and encounters the indigenous bushmen.

E10

Jungle Swamp (1)

2008-05-15

Grylls battles the fierce swamps in Sumatra, Indonesia. As he struggles to keep dry and avoid trench foot, he runs into several types of wildlife, including lizards and the deadly mangrove snake.

E11

Castaway (2)

2008-05-22

Bear Grylls spends a week showing how to survive the challenges of the Pacific Ring of Fire. He is dropped into petrified swamps devastated by the 2004 Tsunami and has to navigate his way out.

E12

Siberia (1)

2008-05-29

With temperatures dipping to -50°C, Grylls has to keep warm before hypothermia sets in. He uses snares to catch his food, and a fire to keep warm. He puts up a scenario for the great dangers to walk over a frozen lake, and how to survive without drowning and/or before hypothermia sets in.

E13

Land of Ice (2)

2008-06-05

Grylls is in Siberia, learning survival techniques from the Tuvans and, eating raw yak liver as well as drinking its blood for food.

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