Discovery Channel's The Last Alaskans is what reality TV should be if the genre still had a soul

The Washington Post

"If The Last Alaskans were required to meet a typical viewer’s (and network executive’s) standards for reality-TV action, it would fail miserably," says Hank Stuever. "The hunters often come back empty-handed. The families never argue. Winter comes and they hunker down in between monotonous excursions along the trap lines. Compared with all the other Alaska shows on Discovery and elsewhere, The Last Alaskans is short on camera-needy kooks, drunken brawls, gold-digging desperados and interpersonal conflict. It’s hard to tell one episode from the next."