Solitary show how long are they in there

This show doesn't fuck around. The elimination challenges are devoid of the tongue-in-cheekiness that give a slight levity to the rest of the show.

The unique format is its own form of cruelty. Each challenge is a test of endurance that eliminates the first person to quit. But since each competitor is isolated in their pod, and Val isn't the sharing type, the unaware competitors continue until they reach their own breaking point. This format inflicts the maximum amount of pain onto each competitor. And they don't even acknowledge the extra effort expended by those who lasted the longest. The elimination challenges are also notable for how they don't make for good T.

Half of the show's runtime is devoted to watching people press their face against plexiglass for hours, or wear a ballgag sitting on a painful chair for as long as they can bear it, or do hundreds of laps crawling around their pod.

The challenges were slow burns of watching people reach their end. Honestly, this writing isn't a letter of recommendation for watching this show. I'm merely fascinated that this show was created and ran for 4 seasons.

The show's theme is based on solitary confinement; accordingly, the contestants are placed in isolated pods, with only an artificial intelligence named Val to communicate with. In reality, Val's voice is a computer-modified human voice.

In Season 1, Val was likely voiced by a male, whose voice was altered. In Season 2, Val is voiced by a female, with little computer modification.

However, some "corruption" can be heard in the voice pattern where Val speaks a word or two in a similar voice to Season 1. In the recent rebroadcast of the Season 1 episodes, the producers have replaced the computer-sounding voice with the more feminine voice that was used in Season 2. Locked in isolation pods and cut off from all contact, they are not competing against each other, but against themselves. In the end, only one will remain. My role is to observe what makes them strong, and what makes them weak, to push, to pry, and discover who will crack next.

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