꧁ Survival Game | Brainy Psychological Reality Shows ꧂

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• Most deserved finalists and winner.
• Love the chemistry between Seok-Jin & Si-Won.
• Would have been much better if the contestants were more open-minded to factions and making more unique plays or thinking more independently instead of relying on Orbit.
• Orbit’s hypocrisy on justice / ‘protecting the weak’ /  morality might rub people the wrong way, even if people agree that his political game is fantastic. The problem lies with him segregating the ’rich‘ and the ‘poor’ and the constant moral high-ground he take as the ’underdogs’, the need to vilify/eliminate anyone who dares try to play their own game and not HIS way of playing. The best example here would be Hye-Sung, someone who wanted to play more neutral. 

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• Hong Jin-Ho & John Park is in the show.

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• Season 1 games were more fun and creative (mythology-themed >> underground-themed). Here, some of the games were reused, and I still dislike the 1 vs. 1 Ball-Snatching game. Season 2 games, however, felt more physically demanding overall in some sense than Season 1, and really, there should be a female version of Physical 100 because it’s literally impossible for females to win under this format, and this season just proved it more.
• Most deserving finalists, in the sense that both are extremely well-rounded in all aspects, but the final game could have been fairer if they had fixed the height of the pole so that it wouldn’t move vertically. There was already a weight difference (which is fine since it can be overcome with strength), but a game-changing element like the pole tilting heavily favors the heavier party gravitationally and shouldn’t have existed. Still, a rather deserved winner, although I’d prefer the other guy winning due to his better story and attitude.

Well, I’m still entertained, though not greatly.

Season 3 will likely be more international with its allegedly Asia format.

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• As the title, brawns/physical capabilities survival show.
• Controversial ending that was criticised by many.

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• Waiting for Subs.

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• Mafia Game.
• 10 Participants.
• Every night the Mafia (Accomplice) can kill someone. 
• Every day there will be a voting to vote someone out.
• On the 2nd day, the 1st Accomplice will recruit 1 more Accomplice.
• Oh Hyun-Min from The Genius played excellently here and I'm glad there was one player that can match up to him here. I'm glad he managed to showcase his social politics skills here as he wanted to.
• Enjoyable to some extent.

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• Casts: Lee Seung Gi, Kai, Jo Bo Ah, Kim Hee Chul, Eunji Won, Park Na Rae.
• Very chill and relaxing show.
• Love their dynamics and synergy. Hee Chul made it very entertaining even though others were great as well. 
• Even though it’s tagged as a Survival Show, its more like a group of friends going on a vacation on an island; having fun playing games, to earn virtual money. 

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• I just love the casts‘ interactions and banters. Enjoyed this a lot cause of the casts.
• Similar to The Great Escape in the sense that you have to solve puzzles/mysteries that follows a storyline. The difference is it’s a single overarching plot/narrative instead of the usual The Great Escape (where you usually have 2 episodes per escape).

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• Casts: Choi Ye Na, BIBI, Jae Jae, Jang Do Yeon, Park Ji Yoon.
• Full female casts.
• Love the dynamics between the casts.

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• I didn’t really enjoyed it.
• 8 Participants. Non-celebrities. A few YouTuber/Streamer in the mix.
• 481 million shared prize pool that will be divided equally among the survivors after 14 days of isolation with absolutely nothing.
• They can purchase whatever necessities or things that want but every item is inflated to 100x price and will be be subtracted from the shared prize pool.
• No filter show, really the raw ugly sides of some people, and it can be quite repulsive.
• Purely surviving and money-management, so it‘s quite boring especially in the first half, there isn’t anything much to do. Things gets slightly interesting when you can vote someone out.
• Mainly conflicts and drama between participants on why so much money was spent.
• Social politics and mental resilience, nothing much on outplaying wits compared to other brainy game shows.

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• Jang Dongmin’s performances here weren’t dominating (he suffer losses + made mistake multiple times) but I find his quality of practice, practice and more practice admirable. He did not have the best individual performance, but he definitely seems to try the hardest to find tricks/ways for most of the brain games that are tough at first sight. He has good social politics skills as usual.
• I personally felt that the finals was a bit underwhelming.
• Honestly would have preferred a different lineup in both finalists team. 

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• Starting was slow, I would even recommend to watch at 2x speed.
• Interesting to see how different the 2 society operates and the difference in leadership styles of the players.
• Games tests categories: Physical | Dexterity | Mental
• More on social politics since they have to live together for 2 weeks and have a lot of time for interactions / making alliances.
• Deserved winner carried the finals.

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• Winners & competent players of the previous seasons participating.
• Deserved winner.
• Knew something was off about Kyunghoon, and his sexual harassment case controversy kinda supports it + how Hyunmin said in his personal stream much later on that he didn’t really wanted to eliminate Kyunghoon early because Kyunghoon was the one driving him to the set. I kinda disliked that such external factors were at play after I found out but it can’t be helped since Hyunmin was still a student then.

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• Best The Genius season out of the 4 seasons.
• The most deserved finalists, both are geniuses and played really well throughout.
• The beginning of the moniker - “God” Dongmin.

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