User reviews

This show immediately became a favorite of our household to watch. The fun the group has at each others expense even if scripted shows they are genuinely having a great time and this chemistry isn't found often.

The challenges they each get put in are sometimes comical to simply possibly deadly. While we get some humor along the way reality has a quick way of coming back in and reminding you the gravity of the situations when you make a poor choice.

Hopefully as they progress forward they can find new and more interesting challenges to keep them running strong and showing us what it can be like.

great show, my only problem is with Jake. while he may be tough as nails, he is a danger to himself, and to others. his competitive side gets the best of him, and as a result, he makes potentially deadly mistakes. His performance in the desert would have cost him his life if the team hadn't stepped in when they did. I also dislike the way he tries to make the other players fail, when in fact, he should be rooting for them to succeed. I hope he gets his priorities straight, and improves as a player, and particularly as a team player. I enjoy learning from these guys, and wish them all well, including Jake. He seems to be a nice guy, just a little too competitive for his own good. I look forward to many more episodes to come

This has nothing to do with surviving extreme situations. There were some OK episodes but most of them felt so fake and stupid. Like flying from California to Finland with a chopper... Or saying that if anyones body temperature falls below 96,6 they are thrown out from the challenge but surprisingly it always stops going down after 96,7.

Wish they continued more than just the two seasons

This show is a show about a bunch of big army type guys that go and do really extreme things and survive in extreme situations and never even get upset or cry about it because they are so big and tough. It is really extreme. The first episode was a bit bad but if you watch a few episodes then it is less bad. This show is very extreme and is not for the faint of heart. Only big tough men and tough people can watch it. It displays a wide range of survivalist skills and FATAL MISTAKES. It shows the group bonding together in survivalist endeavors but the start is a bit cheesy and the end is a bit cheesy. All of the events in the show are possibly fake and not entirely true. All of the participants have different types of education in survival and stuff including a primitive guy, green hat man, navy otter and royal airplane citizen and a native American.

I enjoyed the camaraderie of the show very much, but the survival was not truthful and the entire show was so produced that none of the scenarios were remotely possible.

But mainly, I was really put off by the Fake Colonel Moore Character. Being a survivalist, veteran and host myself, I like to do my due diligence.

I found Moore had put himself in to be a "Kentucky Colonel" back when you could "self-submit". Their rules clearly say it is fraudulent to hold the rank out as real.

Yet, Thomas more, uses the rank to fool folks into donating money to fund his trips abroad to other countries known for unsavory practices.

I did a FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act) request on Moore and his actual military record was far from stellar, and explains why he misleads with his 'honorary' rank.

Moore served a few years on active duty on the 70's and he tried out for Special Forces and failed.

He quit the military then joined the reserves a decade later for a few years in the 80's and again, he quit and left for a decade.

Then after failing in civilian world again, Moore joined the Guard. Again he served only a few years, then quit and his record shows he did attend a few schools, but never anything elite or survival.

The most concerning fact is that he never obtained a rank higher than Specialist, and that he did something bad that warranted them to reduce his rank, usually, as the result of a court martial.

The bottom line is that Thomas Moore has a very checkered and inglorious past, and he managed to dupe KY into an honorary title which he has subsequently used to sell books and solicit funds, for what appears to be, less than honorable activities in under developed nations.

Before trying to watch an episode of this, I had no idea who Jake Zweig was. Now I wish I still didn't. Whatever the goal of this show was, he single-handedly derails it. It honestly feels like the producers tried to build a show around a man who's allergic to humility. From the second he's on screen, Jake radiates the exact kind of energy that makes people avoid eye contact at parties. Loud, aggressive, overbearing; it's like he's trying to win a yelling competition that no one else is participating in.

It's hard to even tell whether he's playing a character or if that's just who he really is-and honestly, neither answer makes it better. If it's a character, it's a bad one. If it's real, it's even worse. Either way, his attitude drowns out any chance the show has of building tension or offering viewers something interesting. I was hoping to see people problem-solve and show real skill under pressure. Instead, I got Jake Zweig aggressively overexplaining things and making everything feel like a performance.

There's a fundamental difference between someone who adds tension and entertainment to a show and someone who sucks the air out of the room. Jake Zweig is firmly the latter. Instead of providing insightful commentary or teaching viewers about survival strategies, he spends most of his screen time trying to assert dominance through intimidation or sheer volume. It's exhausting. And frankly, it ruins the experience for viewers who might otherwise be tuning in for the adventure or survival tips.

There's a kind of secondhand embarrassment that sets in when watching him try to steal every scene, like he's auditioning for a WWE villain role that nobody asked for. His abrasiveness may have worked in a different context-maybe as a drill instructor or in a purely competitive environment-but in a show that desperately needs camaraderie, mutual respect, and genuine challenge, his presence is a wrecking ball.

At its core, Dude, You're Screwed should be about testing human limits, showcasing resourcefulness, and injecting a bit of humor into extreme situations. Instead, what we get is a testosterone-soaked mess led by a man who seems completely incapable of understanding how unlikable he comes across. The series could have been a fascinating take on survivalism with a fun competitive twist. But the overwhelming presence of Jake Zweig makes it hard to watch, harder to enjoy, and impossible to recommend.

Unless you're tuning in specifically to see how quickly a single personality can derail an entire show, skip this one. There are far better survival shows out there.

This show is mostly entertaining and has a fun premise, but is totally ruined by one aspect.

The cast consists of accomplished survivalist types who provide some decent commentary while they watch their friend struggle to get out of a particular survival scenario/location and find civilization with 100 hours.

Sounds decent enough. But there is one major exception: Jake Zweig.

Jake is entirely inarticulate, reckless and a flat out jerk. He goes above and beyond to be as abrasive and unpleasant as possible, while adding nothing of substance whatsoever. And the best part? He is by far the worst of all of the survivalists, totally out of shape, and completely out of his league compared to the others' knowledge.

I watched several episodes and enjoyed a lot of what it offered, but I just couldn't stomach him any more.