Swamp
People: Season 6
(2015/History Channel/Lionsgate DVD Set)/UnReal:
Season 1
(2015/Lionsgate DVD Set)
Picture:
C Sound: C/C+ Extras: D/C- Episodes: B/C-
How
bad can reality TV get, here's a show some like that is a hit,
followed by a spoof of them that is not that funny...
Welcome
back to the Louisiana bayou, here in the heart of the swamp alligator
hunters test their skills against one of mother nature's greatest
predators. In Swamp
People: Season 6
(2015), the stakes are even higher with a $10,000 prize to whomever
can catch the largest alligator. The hunters will have to sail to
new and dangerous areas and use every trick they know, new and old to
catch their prize bounty.
It's another season and with a
$10,000 prize money up for grabs, the alligator hunters are all
roaring to go. With so many amateur hunters they'll have to find new
hunting grounds and unexplored areas if they want to bring down a
prize gator, but there can only be one King of the swamp and asides
from filling their tags they'll have to fight against mother nature,
rivals, poachers, and thieves who are also after the prize.
This
was over 14 hours of alligator hunting, as History follow the various
hunters throughout the alligator hunting season. It is not really
about the hunting as much as the story telling and the bragging
rights. Watching this series you get the closest thing to a rush
from alligator hunting the safety of your own home.
UnReal:
Season 1
(2015) is supposed to be a look at the dark, ugly behind-the-scenes
world of angry, cynical reality TV dating shows, but this one is so
badly written, acted and paced, that it has zero ironic distance from
the real thing, which has been ugly and a joke from the start. This
starts out very badly and just gets worse and worse and worse and
worse, so take it on at your own risk, but don't expect any real
humor. We'll see how long this lasts.
Both
releases are here in anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 presentations
that are soft and weak throughout, while both sport lossy Dolby
Digital 2.0 Stereo with UnReal
barely edging out Swamp,
the latter of which has no extras. UnReal
has Digital Copy and 25 boring more minutes of extras.
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Ricky Chiang & Nicholas Sheffo