The Final Four battle in the Final Quest to determine who has the most peak human phyisque.
The Final 20 battle in the Penultimate Quest to determine which four perfect physical specimens will battle in the finals.
First off, I’ll say that last season’s Quest 3 was much more exciting. The ship-moving challenge I think was one of the highlights last year as it really best exemplified the huge scale of Physical: 100.
So this episode was a bit predictable once again. I think any reasonable fan of the show could foresee which team would win in each of these remaining match-ups. Obviously, Team Hong Beom Seok was going to win and continue his storyline this season.
Okay. So here we go with the team competitions on Physical: 100. And I’ll just say right off the bat, last season’s Quest 2 was much better than whatever this mess was.
Last season, one of my hopes for any future season was to shift the team Quests to the beginning of the competition. That way, we would be able to meet more of the contestants and the competition would be a bit more balanced and unpredictable. The one-on-ones for the very first elimination send off half of the contestants. And due to that, we lose some very interesting potential characters.
Netflix’s breakout Korean reality-competition program Physical: 100 (피지컬: 100) is back for its 2nd season. And this first episode easily showed why it had such a huge impact last year.
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Netflix’s Physical: 100 wrapped up its inaugural season run and crowned its first peak body winner. Before getting to the finale itself, let me just say that the series as a whole was a refreshingly fun and exciting competition. Both compared to other Korean variety programs and especially compared to Western reality competition programs.
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After the wonderful high of last week’s Episode 6, Physical: 100 perhaps came back to Earth with this week’s pair of episodes. Though still featuring fierce competition, the transition to the penultimate Quest felt somewhat clumsy and underwhelming. That is in spite of the tasks and format of Quest 4 being quite creative and of course, challenging.
This week’s pair of episodes of Physical: 100 were definitely much better than last week’s. And perhaps Episode 6 might have been the best, most exciting and most exhausting episode so far. A perfect example of how this series is very different from its comparable western counterparts.