BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

farahrejane I like bush people for the simple reason that with all those weapons they don't shoot each other or the towns people they don't go into the school and go crazy. Wow the world we live in really is a mystery. As far as the misconceptions well at one time or another one had to be a politicians, all I know is that I am impress with the weapon situation, the other bull crap well what show does NOT have it?

rodneyc-54096 Season 1 and 2 started off to be good haven't seen it for a while and now I have just started watching new season. now out of nowhere they have running water, electricity, gadgets Galore,full gas cutting sets and the girl's where more makeup then a model. I don't know whether they are stealing the stuff or renting the girls out but the last time I watched none of them had an income. Obviously they ain't doing it too tough. there cabin looks better than my beach house And I have a high paying job. I don't know whether I can finish watching the new season as it just seems like it's getting very fake. In my opinion it won't be long until they magically get a tractor to build some kind of farm.

emily_contact This is an awesome show! I really love it, and it reminds me so much of how I grew up. We also grew up off the grid. Overall, this show is not only about Alaska, but about a family. It's about a family that chose an unusual life style, and had a series of unfortunate events that led to their patriarch/matriarch making some unusual but strong decisions that bore consequences. Some may be considered bad by modern mainstream standards. My first impressions during Season 1 was that it was more about a very poor family that happened to live in Alaska. But slowly, they achieved their life's goal as a family. To me, this is what makes the show so relatable. It may not be relatable for 'regular' folk. But for those who believe in strong families who work as a team, it's definitely a good testimony despite multiple social setbacks. If you look deep inside, it will teach you more about your own misconceptions about life, family, values and people than anything else. This is not so much about an 'Alaskan family' or a life in 'Alaska'; but about a normal family that chose to live in Alaska and no longer answer the call of mainstream society. Their kids are the byproduct of that decision. And to me, speaking from my own experience, that product seems to be very genuine.I relate very well to this show because it reveals a very overlooked type of family. One that finds it hard to be understood in the modern world. All of the people discrediting this show have missed the entire point. They think living off the grid is just living in a bush. It's way more than that. Living in the bush doesn't mean you've never heard of anything or experienced anything from modern society. It means that you've experienced pockets of it. Those form your opinions and your culture. I struggled with people discrediting my life and experiences. They just can't understand why I would know about somethings and not others. Or why I would be one way, and not another. In reality we are all unique. But there just isn't a lot of cultural overlap with the majority and myself. People, for some reason find that frightening, or try to find ways to discredit it as if it threatens them. In real life, people choose what part of the world they wanna bring into their homes, and what parts they don't. That brings more credit to their story than doubt. As a disclaimer, I've never lived in Alaska (though my father did). So I don't know how real or fake it is. However, this show has a lot of haters, and I can't help but notice that a lot of what they point out are actually normal things from my childhood. So I have a tendency to think that the Brown's are just 'different'. Not a lot of people understand their quirks. When you dig deeper to get to what people have a problem with, most of it actually perfectly explainable for people like me. It's just unusual that people get shows, and the fact that they were living in Alaska (which even living in a city there is so off the grid by normal standards) meant that they didn't struggle with child welfare despite their obvious economic setbacks. But most of all, if anything gives credit to the show: It's the kids accents and behavior. You can't make that up as well as you may think. The kids are obviously siblings, the Browns are obviously a family. I know from personal experience that you only get accents like those, and a diversity of accents like that from living away from people.

bweigel-77450 This is so stupid. I thought it was great till they allowed the bears to break into the cabin. Putting those boards on the windwows was a joke and anyone familiar with bears would knolls that. First you would make it solid and not with gaps in the boards. Second you would lay a platform of nails protruding up form boards in front of the windows along with nails protruding from the boards on the windows. This is common knowledge among people living in the wilderness. Some of the foolish mistakes they make are just basik. How stupid do they think we are. The other thing is if they can afford gas for the ship they can afford a cell phone. Communication is second nature. It just makes no sense. There are a lot of neat things they do but the old man is way over dramadical. He way over does it. Be real. If I ran across Bear i would have committed him a long time ago. The only one that is realistic is Bam. Keeping bears out of the compound would be a lot easier than they make it out to be. Alaskins have been doing it for centuries. This makes them out to be some kind of super heroes and wow are they not. I would move into their environment any day and make it just mine. This show is interesting but don't over dramatize it . Make it real. I admire the ingenuity of the family in a lot of ways but the sickening dramatics is stupid.