The Characters
Though it is an undercurrent to the entire series, 3% doesn't rest on its brutality, instead focusing on a group of people working together to get out of the desperate situations they've found themselves in. Through shocking mind games and nearly impossible physical feats, the plot throws each and every character a set of personal challenges that have no easy answers but are almost always solved by the characters leaning on each other. A refreshing twist on the kids-killing-kids genre.
The Brilliant (and diverse) Cast
This cast puts almost all American attempts at diversity to shame. Already Brazilian made, it's female led and includes people of multiple ethnic backgrounds and economic standings. Not to mention, it features a wheel-chair bound man desperate to prove his mind is more important than his body.
It Will Fill That Secret and Morbid Desire that the Hunger Games No Longer Can
There's a reason dystopian teen dramas never go out of vogue. It's that latent idea of, 'what would I do?' to live, or to live well, that can never really be answered. Thankfully. But we can watch a bunch of young attractive people fight it out in front of our eyes, satisfying that 'fight or flight' instinct we are never required to employ.
The Morality
At no point while watching this series are you sure of who's good, who's bad, or if any of the characters you WILL grow to love land on one side or the other. Heroes fall, are literally crushed, and villains earn admiration without you even noticing.
The Games
Or puzzles, tasks, torture, whatever you want to call them, are kind of, awfully, fun to watch. Whether the competitors are trying to make cubes out of, essentially, Tetris blocks or attempting to cross a tunnel filled with hallucinogenic gas, you wait with baited breath for them to make it, all the while knowing with certainty you would never be able to.
The first season is currently on Netflix. Go watch it.
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