There’s one thing about Sundays that appears completely suited to survival-based actuality exhibits, and here is a rundown of a number of the evening’s highlights:

Working Wild with Bear Grylls: The Problem

Daveed Diggs, rapper and star of Hamilton and Blindspotting to call only a few, is the primary to confess he has “zero” expertise as a survivalist, with the potential exception of his upbringing in Oakland, CA. And whereas we wouldn’t query that exact bona fides, we get his level: Surviving the imply streets of city America calls for various expertise than does spending two days within the wilds of Nevada with out meals or shelter.

Enter Working Wild With Bear Grylls: The Problem. On Sunday’s episode of the present wherein Grylls escorts a star into rugged and oft-uncharted territories, he choppered Diggs into the Nice Basin Desert and proceeded to instruct the actor how one can rappel 250 toes down a 150-million-year outdated petrified sand dune, spark up a hearth from discovered supplies and monitor a horseback-riding ranger. (Professional-tip: the flexibility to smell out recent, moist horseshit from the outdated, stale stuff is a mad talent to have when your life is on the road.)

Nevertheless it was the consuming of char-broiled tarantulas for dinner that proved to be the episode’s gag-inducing highpoint. (It’s possible you’ll recall final week’s present wherein Grylls goes adventuring with Rita Ora and serves foraged lifeless pigeon to the hungry pop star.) Observe to aspiring producers: Somebody ought to make a aggressive cooking present starring Grylls and Andrew “I’ll eat something. No, significantly, something” Zimmern.

On day two — the solo a part of the problem — Diggs tracks on his personal, navigates an deserted mine shaft and reaches his rendezvous level within the nick of time for a helicopter extraction that will get him residence alive. Not so for that fire-roasted arachnid.

Bare and Afraid: Castaways

What took down a contestant on tonight’s installment of Bare and Afraid: Castaways? It wasn’t the snails boiled in an outdated mattress pan for dinner. It wasn’t the crocodile lurking between a dehydrated trio of their birthday fits and a coveted freshwater spring. It wasn’t even the maddeningly obnoxious know-it-all conceitedness of Bulent towards his personal teammates. No, it was an invisible, microscopic bacterial an infection of undiagnosable origin — could not it not less than have been a gnarly insect chunk or a gangrenous flesh wound? — festering behind poor Candice’s ear that sadly earned her a compelled medical evacuation from the island … and the sport. Cue the unhappy trombone music.

Survive the Raft

Lastly, Survive the Raft began out with a enjoyable, action-packed problem involving frantic fruit-gathering from a Backyard of Eden-style setting by 5 bare gamers (all the time good for scores and embarrassing rope burns) who then needed to zip-line right down to a lagoon to drop their harvests to awaiting rafters, all with large bounty cash at stake. Nevertheless, the enjoyable and video games took a darkish and uncomfortable flip towards racial discord when it got here time to vote a participant off the raft. Merissa’s lingering mistrust of Lashanna, the only real African American rafter who had gotten right into a row with one other participant two episodes earlier, got here to a head. Merissa stated the raised-voice argument had left her feeling “fearful for my bodily security.” Sufficient different voters fell into line, and all of the sudden Lashanna was out, although different gamers, together with CJ, expressed unhappiness with the flip of occasions. “It makes me really feel pissed off,” he stated. “When one particular person has an issue, the remainder of the group jumps behind that one particular person. That’s group suppose, and group suppose is extraordinarily harmful.”

Working Wild With Bear Grylls airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on Nationwide Geographic.

Bare and Afraid: Castaways airs Sundays at 8 p.m. ion Discovery

Survive the Raft airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on Discovery.