Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “Physical 100,” the first unscripted Korean show to top Netflix’s non-English global charts, is being given a second season.
The show falls between a talent contest and a survival competition with 100 contestants, including Olympians, professional fighters, bodybuilders and former soldiers, through a series of quests to challenge their strength, endurance, agility, balance and willpower, and to develop the perfect physique.
Controversially it mixed men and women and amateurs and professionals. The show incorporated a plaster cast of each contestant’s torso.
This was destroyed with a sledgehammer when they were eliminated. The first season debuted in January and remained in the Top 10 for the past month.
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