(Warning: Contains spoilers.) The participants on this Korean competition show approach their arduous tasks with collegial sportsmanship. They’re also very hot.
concluded yesterday, with one athlete — crumpled on the ground on knees and elbows, panting in exhaustion and in agony — beating out 99 competitors who went through a series of intense physical challenges to determine who among them has the best physique. It’s a well-made and entertaining thirst trap that’s held a spot among Netflix’s most-watched shows in the US since its release in late January. Round by round, participants push their bodies in games with random rules for both ego and money.
The Korean show brings together 100 contestants — including national team athletes, content creators, and MMA fighters — to compete in a series of games requiring strength, agility, endurance, and teamwork to prove who has the best physique. The competition has a dark tone, reminiscent of Netflix’s, contestants put on uniforms and are herded into a room where an ominous voice announces game rules as a projection of a blue, glowing orb looms over them, invoking the Eye of Sauron.
Everyone on the show is painfully hot and capable. Participants glisten as they strip their tops, revealing beautifully sculpted bodies that are frequently captured in slow motion — so that you may gawk at every hardened muscle. The throbbing soundtrack makes it feel as if they’re all going to wrestle and have sex. In the first round, contestants who hang onto a raised bar the longest are promised an advantage in the next game.
depict strength, confidence, and sheer physicality so radiantly through Asian bodies, including in women. Mainstream depictions of power in the US have rarely included Asian people, who have largely existed in the background in America, obscured by stereotypes about being passive and complacent.is free of this foul white gaze. While we watched the show, my husband commented how refreshing it was to see beauty and strength in ways that are usually reserved for white people on American TV.
The show also has sadistic undertones. Several of the challenges are called punishments . The exhausted participants repeatedly comment on how cruel the tasks are; one said he felt like his heart would explode. Yet they persist.inevitably comes to a bittersweet conclusion. CrossFitter and snowboarder Woo Jin-yong wins.
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