For people needing a Survivor-type fix, I just discovered my favorite Surviror-type local show (I'm from Belgium) has a fanbase that creates English subs.
The concept actually had 5 season run in the USA and was called The Mole but I never watched the USA version and I have heard the USA version kinda sucks.
The show was 'invented' in Belgium in 1999 and was then sold to various countries. In Belgium it was initially owned by a very renowned production company and they only made 3 seasons "to not milk the concept". Through various buyouts the show is now owned by a local telecom provider and they have started remaking new seasons every year, but so far the quality has been very good.
The concept is quite simple:
*10 people go on a trip together and have to compete in various challenges to win money in every challenge, which the final winner wins.
*1 of the 10 people is 'the mole' and his/her goal is actually to sabotage the challenges they compete him and to keep the money as low as possible. Nobody in the game knows who the mole is (except for the mole obv). The mole is trained and assisted by a few key people in the production that give tips/help/guidance etc how to sabotage the challenges.
*Every few days (at the end of each episode in show-perspective) the contestants got to fill in a quiz about the mole (with questions like is he male/female, was the mole in group x during challenge y, etc) and the contestant with the lowest score in the quiz is eliminated.
*The viewer also does not know who the mole is and has to also try to discover who it is, though they make this very hard through good editing obviously.
*Contestants get eliminated until there is a F3, at which point the winner (highest score or fastest time in final quiz), loser (lowest score) & the mole are revealed.
The concept creates a dynamic in the show where the contestants also don't want to appear as "obviously not the mole" since that gives them a disadvantage in the quiz, especially in the later stages of the game, and creates very interesting social dynamics with people trying to discover who the mole is and trying to appear mole-ish at the same time.
I can only say that I truly love this show and it is the only show for me that comes close to American Survivor in this genre, and I wouldn't be able to pick a favorite between the 2 tbh. And I truly believe it is a very high quality production coming from a tiny country
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There are 3 seasons with English subtitles available on this YT channel, sadly the episodes are not the videos themselves but rather links in the description of each video:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdp...mhcTHfA/videos
(2 seasons don't have seperate videos for all episodes but have 1 central link inside the video, "De Mol, België (The Mole), 2016 with English subtitles" is the earliest season that is available on this channel & was the first season after the show its relaunch.)
You don't need to watch the E00 episodes, they are a preshow-type episode for the fans, but if you're new to the concept it is useless. It might also spoil moles from previous seasons so I'd avoid it. In the season episodes themselves there should not be spoilers from previous seasons.
Word of warning: If you accidentally spoil yourself who the mole is, this is obviously even worse than spoiling yourself who the winner of a Survivor season is. I would be very careful googling or w/e when it comes to this show, and just give it a shot & watch 1 episode if you need a Survivor-type fix
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Last edited by bbfg; 03-17-2021 at 06:49 PM.