Jason Bateman’s popular Netflix reality series has positive news for viewers. Outlast, which garnered significant fan engagement across its first three seasons and which Bateman executive produces, just received a major update regarding its forthcoming Season 4.
Netflix has officially renewed the series for a fourth season, which will also serve as the second season of Outlast: The Jungle.
According to Deadline, the upcoming installment of the survival competition series will once again take contestants to the Panamanian jungle, following the setting of Season 3. The show’s first two seasons, meanwhile, were set in the remote wilderness of Alaska.
Since the jungle season received better reviews from viewers than the Alaska seasons, this is good news for fans looking forward to another chapter of Outlast.
Talking about Season 3, showrunner Mike Odair said it “felt like throwing gasoline on the format.” He said ahead of the launch, “We traded the frozen isolation of Alaska for the heat and volatility of Panama, and everything changed: the survival, the strategy, and the social dynamics … This may be our most dynamic group yet.”
What is Jason Bateman’s Outlast show about?
In Outlast, 16 strangers are dropped into a remote wilderness and split into four teams to see who can endure the harshest conditions the longest.
The catch? The contestants cannot win alone. Rather, they must survive and finish the game as part of a team to claim the grand prize. If a player wants to leave, they fire a flare gun to trigger a medical evacuation or extraction. The last remaining team splits a $1 million cash prize.
As much as it might sound like any other traditional survival show, Outlast is different in the sense that it features a few rules against sabotage, stealing, and cutthroat team betrayal, turning the competition into a mix of physical endurance and psychological warfare.
Netflix has yet to confirm an official release date for Outlast Season 4. The previous seasons can all currently be streamed on Netflix.
Originally reported on ComingSoon.
