Whisker Wars: Season 1

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IFC | IFC - Independent Film Channel | Season Premiere Date: August 5, 2011

Summary: Men from beard-and-mustache clubs across the country compete for the right to represent the United States at the World Competition in Norway in this self-described docu-comedy.

Genre(s): Comedy, Reality, Game Show

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E7. It's Norway or the Highway
Air Date: September 23, 2011
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S1:E6. The German Masters
Air Date: September 16, 2011
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S1:E5. Reindeer Games
Air Date: September 9, 2011

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Clark Collis

Aug 5, 2011

This reality show tracks, with admirable and hilarious straight-facedness, the follicularly oriented infighting that plagues Beard Team USA (a name I will never tire of writing), as well as their attempt to dethrone the presumably more regimented Germans as planet Earth's top whisker warriors. Read full review

David Knowles

Aug 4, 2011

Although that dictum doesn't fill Whisker Wars with Deadliest Catch levels of dramatic tension, this detour into the world of competitive bearding is worth a gander or two. Read full review

Diane Werts

Aug 5, 2011

If it wasn't a docucomedy, it would just be dull. Read full review

Robert Lloyd

Aug 5, 2011

We get a glimpse of some intriguing characters that we don't, however, quite come to know--not in the episodes I've seen, anyway--because we are being pelted the whole time with exposition and explanation. We're rarely allowed just to look or listen in or to think for ourselves. Read full review

Rob Owen

Aug 4, 2011

Whisker Wars gives a few glimpses into the care regimen of these mens' beards but fails to ask or answer an essential question: Why do they bother? Read full review

Hank Stuever

Aug 5, 2011

There's no time for anthropology, psychology or cultural criticism. Whisker Wars, it seems, is no different from those shows about extreme couponers or the woman who eats the stuffing out of sofa cushions. Read full review

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FiatBarba

Sep 16, 2011

Working to dispel the contradictory notion that men look more like men when shaven, Whisker Wars smacks pop culture across its baby soft face. Long believed to symbolize potency and vigor (things lost in our era of metrosexuality), beards remind the world that we are not women or children.Working to dispel the contradictory notion that men look more like men when shaven, Whisker Wars smacks pop culture across its baby soft face. Long believed to symbolize potency and vigor (things lost in our era of metrosexuality), beards remind the world that we are not women or children. Whisker Wars provides the children with role models of what men should look like, and we should celebrate the show as such.… Expand

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Series Overview
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: November 23, 2012
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: August 5, 2011
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  S1:E7. It's Norway or the Highway
  Air Date: September 23, 2011
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  S1:E6. The German Masters
  Air Date: September 16, 2011
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  S1:E5. Reindeer Games
  Air Date: September 9, 2011
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  S1:E4. Don't Mess With Texas
  Air Date: August 26, 2011
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  S1:E3. West Coast Showdown
  Air Date: August 19, 2011
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  S1:E2. The Beard Circuit
  Air Date: August 12, 2011
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  S1:E1. America's Beardsmen
  Air Date: August 5, 2011