Discovery’s ‘Eaten Alive’ was a Huge Disappointment [VIDEO]

Sunday night, December 7th, naturalist Paul Rosolie was supposed to be consumed by an anaconda for the Discovery special 'Eaten Alive'. What transpired, though, was a 2-hour waste of America's time.

Everything leading up to the special led us to believe that Rosalie would be eaten by a snake that he would capture in the Amazon.

Unfortunately, the first 90 minutes of 'Eaten Alive' had Rosolie searching and searching for his prized, 25-foot anaconda to no avail. His group did manage to capture a 19-foot anaconda, but that just wasn't big enough. They wanted the 25-footer.

So, after 90 TV minutes of suspenseful searching, Rosolie and his crew retreated and brought in what basically amounted to a stunt snake to try and eat Rosolie alive.

According to TMZ, a captive snake was brought in to, at the very least, put Rosolie's safety suit to the test. Unfortunately, the snake was far too small to actually consume Rosolie. It did, however, pack enough power to nearly pop Rosalie's arm out of socket, which led him to 'tap out' and have his crew get the snake to release its grip.

I have no problem admitting that I was excited to see this dude get eaten and regurgitated by snake, but I was duped just like everyone else. Watching the special, I felt like the entire thing was staged. Was the crew in the jungle? Yes. Did they really come into contact with the 25-foot anaconda they were hoping to? I doubt it.

It seemed like a lot of editing tricks were used to make it look like these people were really wrestling these giant snakes. Ultimately, none of it seemed real to me. Even the stunt snake's attempt to eat Rosolie seemed very suspect.

Either way, Discovery managed to rope in millions of people to watch, myself included, and that was the ultimate goal. So, well done, Discovery. Well done.

[TMZ]