It is hard to be alone. Isolation can be devastating to the human psyche. This is one of the central conflicts of Alone, a reality series on History that debuted in 2015. The series might be one of the rawest survival series that has ever been on television.

Each season, ten competitors are placed in their own remote section of a completely wild landscape. Audiences learn about the competitors’ struggles with survival through self-taped videos. When a competitor feels that they can brave the elements no longer, they can “tap out” by radioing a rescue crew. The survivalist who withstands the wilderness for the most prolonged period of time is awarded half a million dollars.

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Alone is currently in its ninth season. A few of season nine’s competitors are still fending for themselves in the wilderness. Though the series has primarily stuck to its original format, a few installments of Alone have branched off to explore different survival elements. Alone: The Beast premiered in 2020. In this Alone spinoff series, a team of survivalists is dropped in a remote location with no tools. The only resource that the team has to survive the show’s requisite 30-day period is a freshly killed animal carcass.

Though there has only been one season of Alone: The Beast, there are many reasons for fans to want another season of the spinoff series. Here are some of the reasons why there must be another season of Alone: The Beast.

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Although the single season of Alone: The Beast is still a survival series, it has a set of rules that distinguishes itself from its predecessor, Alone. For starters, competitors in the spinoff series are not competing to survive for the longest amount of time possible. Rather, they only need to survive for thirty days. However, unlike the competitors on Alone, they are not given access to any tools.

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The survivalists on Alone: The Beast must rely exclusively on the carcass of animals. One team, tasked with surviving in the Arctic, was given a moose. Two other teams were made to brave the Louisiana swamps. One of the teams was given an alligator carcass, while the other was made to subsist on that of a wild boar.

The Difficulties of Teamwork in a Survival Situation

In stark opposition to the original Alone program, the competitors on Alone: The Beast are not left by themselves in the wilderness. Rather, as previously mentioned, they are released in groups of three, which makes the series an exercise in collaboration as well as survival. Not having to grapple with the mental anguish of isolation is absolutely a benefit that the competitors of Alone: The Beast has over the competitors of Alone.

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However, teamwork is not always what makes the dream work, especially for survivalists who have spent the majority of their lives learning to fend for themselves. Making three competitors work alongside one another on Alone: The Beast creates the potential for a lot of exciting drama. Additionally, the teams are only as strong as their weakest link, which ups the importance of collaboration.

The Endless Possible Combinations of Animals and Environment

If Alone: The Beast is renewed for future seasons, there are countless directions the show’s creators can choose to take the program in. Generally, Alone is dictated by the environment in which the competitors are dropped. However, given the fact that competitors on Alone: The Beast are supplied with a food source at the beginning of their survival period, they can be placed in even more exotic locations.

The potential wild animals that are supplied to the survivalist on Alone: The Beast is really only limited to the imagination of the show’s creators (and, of course, animal hunting regulations). Could a potential future season of Alone: The Beast drop competitors off on the African savannah, armed against the elements with only a hippopotamus carcass? If the show’s creators wanted to go in an entirely different direction, they could even attempt to mimic the aftermath of a shipwreck and have a team of survivalists try to subsist on a shark’s carcass while floating in the open ocean.

Honestly, if one is contemplating making an appearance on Alone, they should know that there are much easier ways to earn prize money on a television competition show. However, for those who have committed their lives to accrue survival skills, the television series represents an excellent opportunity to showcase their skills and potentially make a pretty penny in the process. Alone: The Beast represents an interesting twist on the popular survival series formula, and fans of the series should demand another season of the carcass-centered spinoff.