How entertaining can it be to watch someone stranded at sea or in some remote place? That is what I used to question about survivalist thrillers.
But movies like Life of Pi, The Revenant, Cast Away and the TV series Keep Breathing not only held the answer, they schooled me in the art of story- telling.
And of course, I was corrected about my misconception.
There are so many other elements explored in such doom-and-gloom scenarios,