The crew harasses animals. They accidentally shoot a kangaroo. They dub over nature footage with gibberish. It is a rejection of the sanctimony of "educational TV." In an era where nature documentaries have become high-art, the low-brow, chaotic energy of Strange Wilderness acts as a necessary counterbalance. It reminds us that for every professional National Geographic crew, there is a group of guys in a van who have no idea what they are looking at.
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The narrative is essentially a loose framework for a series of sketches. It doesn’t follow traditional three-act structure so much as it meanders from one disaster to the next, mirroring the aimlessness of its protagonists. The crew harasses animals