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BACK TO THE FRONTIER, a reality show from Chip and Joanna Gaines' Magnolia Network, takes viewers back to simpler times.
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The brand new series "Back to the Frontier" transports participants to a meticulously recreated historical setting, challenging them to live and compete as pioneers. Contestants will perform tasks essential to frontier life throughout the series.
Magnolia Network's new reality show implies that 1880s pioneers lived more authentic lives than Americans today. But it's a flawed assumption.
BACK TO THE FRONTIER is a reality TV series on HBO Max about three modern-day families who reenact the "homestead" lifestyle of
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Chip and Joanna Gaines challenge three families to live like 1880s homesteaders, forcing them to forsake modern conveniences such as internet, electricity and indoor plumbing for eight weeks.
The frontier settlers arrive without even the slightest demonstration that they know what life in the 19th century was actually like, leaving them shocked by things like outhouses and wood-burning stoves.