Published: October 19, 2020
The Australian franchise of the gruelling reality TV show gives armchair endurance enthusiasts a vicarious dose of celebrity suffering
Seventeen celebrities, athletes and reality stars are challenged to complete an SAS selection course, while being cursed at by ex-special forces soldiers, launched backwards out of helicopters into freezing lakes and forced to poop in a dunny with half a door.
Channel Seven’s no-brainer hit, SAS Australia, is based on the UK’s equally brutal SAS: Who Dares Wins (which the Guardian UK called “a sadistic PE lesson”), and I only get seven minutes in before I exclaim my first “[Expletive] this [expletive]!” in empathy with the recruits. We are all Schapelle Corby vomiting in a helicopter.
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