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Five reasons you should dive into 3% right now.
An interesting element of the Process is that unless a participant returns home, their families never actually know what happened to them, so everyone clings to the notion that their loved one succeeded. But oftentimes they died, or were murdered, as a result of the Process.
Death strikes early in the show's run after a hopeful is eliminated in the first round and chooses to kill himself as opposed to returning to poverty. It quickly drives home the importance the Process holds in these people's lives and what it must feel like when your dream is snatched away from you for a seemingly ineffable reason.
But the show's most relentless outing is Episode 4, titled "Gateway." Loosely inspired by the Stanford Prison Experiment, the participants are trapped in a mazelike series of dormitories and asked to execute a simple task that requires they all work together to achieve a common goal, an essential characteristic of someone who deserves to live on the Offshore. Frustrated with everyone's ability to unite, Ezekiel cruelly changes the rules, resulting in a Lord of the Flies moment that leaves viewers shaken and several main characters dead.
The series of challenges presented to the participants test their mental acuity, sense of honor, physical well-being, deduction skills, and pure mettle. Watching the players triumph over these increasingly difficult tasks is exhilarating, and attempting to figure them out for yourself creates a similar sense of self-satisfaction.
But the questions posed by 3% are not limited to the Process's tests. From its opening minutes, the show forces viewers to wade into morally and ethically murky waters alongside the characters to confront their own moral compass.