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Naked and Afraid

★ 6.6 6K votes 2013–present 19 seasons · 219 episodes Returning Series Discovery
SurvivalStaying alive against nature, scarcity or pursuit.This show: 10/10Reality competitionReal people competing under format rules.This show: 7/10EpisodicSelf-contained episodes you can watch in almost any order.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Michael Brown
Starring
Michael Brown
Ratings per Episode
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Votes per Episode
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About

"Survival stripped down to instinct and misery"

Two strangers, usually one man and one woman, are dropped into a brutal wilderness location with no clothes, no food, and one survival tool each. They have twenty-one days to build shelter, find water, and avoid starving before extraction. The show leans hard into primal stakes rather than manufactured drama: bugs, infections, dehydration, and exhaustion do most of the storytelling. It's repetitive by design, but there's a grim fascination in watching ordinary people strip down to pure survival instinct. Nudity is blurred and incidental; the real tension is whether these two can cooperate long enough to last three weeks.

Watch it for

the raw, unscripted desperation of watching strangers survive with literally nothing.

Maybe skip if

you need varied stakes, since every episode follows the same hunger-thirst-shelter grind.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12013
7.188886h 23m
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Season 22014
7.250675h 27m
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Season 32014
7.2815148h 53m
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Season 42015
7.3679138h 20m
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Season 52015
7.5258123h 32m
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Season 62016
7.26421510h 31m
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Season 72017
7.4518128h 20m
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Season 82017
6.724685h 59m
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Season 92018
7.35391611h 51m
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Season 102019
7.65611612h 20m
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Season 112020
7.24831715h 12m
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Season 122021
7.1238119h 43m
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Season 132021
7.213167h 20m
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Season 142022
6.34971312h 51m
A man and woman battle extreme environments without food, water or clothes.
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Season 152023
7.23321110h 55m
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Season 162023
6.99155h 2m
Several pairs of total strangers have to survive the extreme environment and dangerous wildlife of the wilderness, naked and afraid.
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Season 172024
7.53501213h 6m
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Season 182025
7.32541112h 16m
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Season 192026
7.51851214h 22m

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Michael Brown Narrator
Laura Zerra Self - Survivalist
Matt Wright Self - Survivalist, Self, Self - Brooke's Husband
Steven Lee Hall Jr. Self - Survivalist, Self - Mentor
Amanda Kaye Self - Survivalist
Fernando Calderon Self - Survivalist
Mathilde Bittner Self - Executive Producer, Self - Co-Executive Producer, Self - Producer
Kylie Furneaux Self - Survivalist
Amber Hargrove Self - Survivalist
E.J. Snyder Self - Survivalist

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