bear, improved

this week I had the notion that a dose of reality telly might not be amiss. found "man, woman, wild" on the new release tv shelf and thought it too good to be true, in the comedic sense of things. husband and wifey team up and hurl themselves into improbable situations in far flungs, and tough it out for 4 days at time - armed with a knife and not much else. very different stuff to mr grylls, in many ways, but yumourously the same in others. for a start, the dynamics of having two makes it much more interesting to watch, as our heroes bicker, banter and canoodle variously. she's a blonde english lass of rubenesque build, he's an ex special forces medic of native uhmerican extract and ridiculous biceps from kentucky. chalk? cheese? yeppers. both mid-forties, so comfily middle-aged smart arsey, which is noice. seems more 'real time' and natural, and they both make mistakes and drop balls etc. she vomits alot, for some inexplicable reason, and even more inexplicably, they show it full frontal, every time. tasty. he doesn't do any running down mountains and poncing about like mr grylls, but he does do the 'code yellow' narration for much of it - which is annoying. silly, like most survival type shows, but not so silly that I haven't enjoyed every minute of it so far. all in all they're a likeable couple, and it's good to see allegedly tough peeps freak out in perilous sitatuations and/or gag when confronted with something inedible. on the reality telly scale, 9/10.