Here’s something likely to be of interest to my sorts of readers, I think, a new Korean reality show that started a few weeks ago on KOCOWA+ just as I let my sub run out after Bloody Game finished, but that I might resub and binge when the whole thing has gone out – I’ve seen the first two episodes and I don’t want to overuse the word ‘interesting’, but it’s really interesting (unfortunately it’s also come out at time where there’s loads of other things competing for my time). It is also, I suspect, quite complex for an average Western viewer – there are lots of different moving parts, the first two episodes are around 1h 40m, the third one seems to be 3h.
The first series of The Community worked slightly differently, the group of politically diverse people have to make decisions for the common good but if you can state another contestant’s persuasions correctly you can eliminate them, and this new version whilst being a different game seems to have become popular enough that KOCOWA has bought and translated the first series off the back of it, I understand. This one certainly begins as a economics 101 lesson which aims to test Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand theory, will you get as balanced society that succeeds if everyone works in their own self interest? I’ll hide the rules from the first two episodes behind a cut. Because there’s a lot.
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