Special gets 'Eaten Alive' by people on Twitter
Did you hang around for two hours to watch a dude get eaten by an anaconda?
No?
Then perhaps you're smarter than the rest of us.
On Sunday, the Discovery Channel aired its heavily hyped Eaten Alive special, in which Paul Rosolie and his team traversed the Amazon in hopes of finding a snake that was big enough to eat him. An easy task, no?
Well, actually, quite the opposite. We spent most of the two-hour special with crocodiles, eels and anacondas that weren't quite up to the size Paul was gunning to get consumed by. Shrimps.
In fact, it wasn't until the last 15 minutes that he even went head-on with his anaconda foe, during which he was cloaked in pig blood-soaked chain mail and a helmet. And he wasn't even fully devoured: He spent a few minutes in the snake's clutches, before he was pulled away with some gnarly cuts and poor circulation in his arm.
Riveting, huh? Well, people on Twitter didn't really think so:
