Eden - Paradise Lost 10pm C4 - Every Night this week

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Anyone else watching this catch-up on a Castaway/10,000 years BC/The Island type show set in remote Scotland.

Partially broadcast a year or two ago, C4 stopped showing it before the group of 23 started to fall apart.

Shocking stuff, with overt sexism, bullying, aggression and violence.

Enlightening just how quickly how the 'emotionally intelligent' generation disintegrates and revert to basic role models.

Most of the women have walked out already due to bullying and sexism by various, Tobys, Ollys, Robs and Sams led by a bitter plumber.

Stark reminder how far humans haven't travelled and how quickly we can go back.

On again tonight.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/04/reality-tvs-wildest-disaster
This shines a bit of extra light on what happened. What a mess.

I just watched this on catch up, having read the New Yorker article. Jesus - what a mess! Lord of the Flies indeed. The 'Valley Boys' - ugh - misogynistic boors one and all. Jack the army officer - ffs! You might think he'd have shown some leadership and integrity, but no, not one iota. The only positive thing you could say about him was that he was cute (until he opened his mouth).

As for Glenn - what an utter twat. The last line where he says the news round-up from the year they were in Eden made him fear about what the country is coming to and he'd be worried to have kids! The complete lack of self-awareness in that comment was the icing on the cake. Titch/Stephen/Oli - utter tossers one and all. And the women weren't much better. Ali the doctor was lovely and I don't blame her for leaving, but Katie was odd, hysterical and I fail to see how having an artist in the community benefited anyone. And Josie - again what was her useful role in a fledgling community? That was a major part of the problem - the alpha males had useful skills, whereas many of the women didn't and that added to their victimisation. But it was horrible TV