It was an area picked specifically because of how cut off it was from the rest of society, and that reclusive style of living kept everyone out there unaware of what the U.K.’s Channel 4 had planned for airing the series, which basically came down to: Air four episodes over the summer and then just hold off and not really say anything else about it until someone else brings it up, like maybe all of the miserable people that are still out there.
Here’s the quick rundown for this non-success story: last March, 23 contestants ventured out to the Ardnamurchan peninsula in Inverness-shire, Scotland with the single goal of building a community.