The Zone: Survival Mission Season 3 Episode 5 Review: 4 Minutes Challenge To Escape the Zone!

Yoo Jae-suk and Kwon Yu-ri are back in The Zone: Survival Mission Season 3, with new team members- Kim Dong-hyun and DEX. As they return to enter new realities and bring about more interesting scenarios, an entertaining and educative adventure awaits us all. The show brings new simulations and lessons to be learnt to ensure we are given more than just entertainment in this variety show.

“MC of the Nation” Yoo Jae-suk and Girls’ Generation Kwon Yu-ri are joined by “Stun Gun” Kim Dong-hyun and Single’s Inferno star DEX and are ready with an eight-episode-long adventure for us all. 

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The Zone: Survival Mission Season 3 Episode 5 Recap

Episode 5 begins with the four members heading to an abandoned building in the middle of a blizzard that leaves them cold. As they head inside to find out about the zone, they are surprised when told they must complete any 4-minute mission inside the building to end the zone. The building has 20 floors and there’s a mission on every floor. If they can complete the mission, then they can leave. If not, then they would have to proceed to the next floor.

Excited upon knowing that they can escape the blizzard soon, they head inside to complete the mission as soon as possible. However, these 4-minute missions are not as easy as they think, which leads them to a series of failures either due to the difficulty of the task or due to self-sabotage. While the members don’t perform excellently, Dong-hyun’s performance is even worse during the tasks.

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However, the entertainment doesn’t fail anyone as the members take part in some dodgeball, wrestling, hanging in a box, a three-legged relay race, an eating challenge, a treasure zone, a Rubik’s cube challenge, a balancing challenge, a telepathy game, a scary black zone, a balance zone, and many more.

Finally, the members reach the 20th floor where they are met with the final challenge of this zone where they need to untie the knots of four different types of ropes and attach them to the ring in the middle. The four choose their ropes and begin the challenge, only succeeding to finish it with 1 second left on the timer.

The zone ends with this challenge and the four succeed in winning 4 Z-coins, with Jae-suk getting 2 coins and Dong-hyun getting none. The idea behind this Four Minute Zone is that taking part in vigorous activities for four minutes helps improve our fitness and stimulate our brain, which releases dopamine and makes us happy. With this, the episode comes to an end.

The Zone: Survival Mission Season 3 Episode 5 Review

The episode brings about a series of activities which not only keep the members active and releasing dopamine but also the viewers who are watching the episode. While bringing our attention to the importance of vigorous activities and stimulating our brain, the episode keeps us intrigued and entertained right until the end.

I like how the show makes sure to bring about the importance of something or the other with each passing episode, making it unique from other shows. However, while the show is certainly upping its game with each season, the original trio is what we cannot stop missing with every episode. But the entertainment continues and while the show has certainly improved in terms of the Zones, we need more from the cast.

Altogether, the episode was certainly entertaining and intriguing, with us once again looking forward to what is to come next.

Watch The Zone: Survival Mission season 3 on Disney+.

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