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TV shows we love: Snowflake Mountain

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I hate the word snowflake, as used to describe an overly sensitive, and mostly young, part of society. But it is hard to disagree that the same demographic shares a general sense of entitlement. But are these snowflakes the victim of their own social norms? Given the chance to rid themselves of peer pressure how would they behave?

This is what Netflix’s Snowflake Mountain sets out to address by abandoning a bunch of 10 said snowflakes on, you’ve guessed it, a mountain. Thinking they are going to a luxurious villa, the youngsters have been packed off by frustrated parents to a living in the wild experience in the middle of nowhere (or more accurately the Lake District). How long it takes for this to dawn on them as they are driven there is rather amusing.

But the point of this show is not to snigger at these young people. In a pretty neat looking camp and under the eye of three face your inner demons experts, they are put through their paces and forced into some naval gazing of a rather different nature than what to post next on Instagram.

But it is hard not to warm to the urbanite with a fear of heights as he scales a tree, or the young man with a love of balloons who thrills in starting a fire. It is also hard not to be impressed when, forced to only pack the essentials, in a camp with no running water, no parents and no wifi the female members of the group have quite a stash of make-up which they seem to find plenty of time to liberally apply.

Ex-army men Matt and Joel, who run the exercise, say it is all about tough love. They then start to strip down their prize money when these lessons are not taken on board.

And while mental and psychological mountains are scaled through the run on the show, in the form of self belief, cooperation, and basically growing up, in the final episodes (there are only eight), the team must tackle an actual mountain. Whether or not they manage to do so would be a spoiler but knowing that one of the episodes is titled Call in the Medic offers a clue.

According to video footage from the 10 hopefuls after the conclusion, it does all happily ever after even if moving out takes you only as far as the flat attached to your parents’ house. But for anyone who is struggling with a ‘snowflake’ this is a heart-warming watch.

 

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