
Selection for the Special Forces is a test unlike any other. Celebrities from all genres take on -- and try to survive -- demanding training exercises led by directing staff agents, an elite team of ex-Special Forces operatives. In this unique series, the only way for these recruits to leave is to give up on their own accord, through failure or potential injury, or by force from the agents. Viewers see the recruits face the harshest of environments that simulate the highly classified selection process, pushing themselves in the ultimate test of their physical, mental and emotional resilience and revealing the celebrities' deepest and truest character.

The recruits are tasked with locating chemical weapons in underground tunnels by crawling through narrow passageways; they must then push themselves mentally and learn to control their aggression.

The recruits' mental and physical resilience is tested by the brutal mud sickener challenge; the recruits are divided into two teams and tasked with evading capture while stranded behind enemy lines.