*2 Days, 1 Night is a show where 6 regular cast members take themed trips around Korea to show off its charms. Each trip has a theme designed to highlight an area or else to create cohesion for the games they play. The general formula for a trip is a lunch game, a dinner game, and a sleeping inside or outside game. Half of the members (in teams or as individuals) will win lunch. The same will be true of dinner and the right to sleep inside instead of in a tent. Trips often cover several episodes.*
This Trip’s Theme: The Taste of Winter, continued; Tour of Granting Wishes
My Entertainment Score: 4 out 10 laughs
There were amusing parts to this episode. The first half was the end of the trip we had been following for several episodes and felt like a conclusion to the story. The second part was the start of a new trip and had more amusing moments, mostly in the banter between the members and the reveals of the wishes of each member, but I’m choosing to see it as the world-building part of the story. I think next week will have a lot more fun going on.
What Happened:
The Taste of Winter, Continued.
This episode picked up right where the last one ended off with no review of last week’s happenings. I’ll help you out...
Ravi, Seyoon, Seonho-sleeping outdoors
Dindin, Jongmin, Junghoon-sleeping indoors
Sleeping (Start of episode-1:30)
Wake-up Song and Mission (1:30-13:26)
Members have to walk across the ice in a shallow creek to get to boxes that have tickets for various breakfast truck menu items. They go one at a time and the members that haven’t gone yet have to keep their backs turned, so the first several members (obviously) push the boxes farther away or into positions on thinner ice.
Breakfast (13:27-17:56)
There was some interesting chatting and a recap of the year-end awards that everyone won.
NEW TRIP: Tour of Granting Wishes: Make Every Dream Come True
This is in response to the new year. The PD is trying to start the new year on a good note.
Opening (17:56-27:30)
Seyoon is absent. He went to the hospital and was diagnosed with overwork/stress and was advised to take a break from activities, so he will be absent throughout this trip at least. The members took with them a stuffed pig, at his request, to make up for his absence.
The members, Dindin specifically, had promised to go into the winter Ocean if they could get an award, so he was made to fulfill that promise.
Trip Introduction (27:30- 29:45)
The staff asked the members what they wished for on the show. Each member is going to get one wish granted during the trip and all the members will go together to have that wish granted.
First Wish: Seyoon’s Wish (29:45- 41:25)
He wanted to lie down by a pool villa. The members went without the staff and were allowed to relax. They had some funny chatting moments there and in the car on the way to their next wish.
Second Wish: Seonho’s Wish (41:25- 1:00:00) and (1:08:00- 1:12:18)
Seonho said he wanted to go fishing with his dad. His dad couldn’t make it, so they called him and asked him to pick a member to accompany Seonho.
The other members went to fulfill the third wish.
In the second segment, the members struggled to fish. The winter wind made the boat rock hugely and everyone struggled, including the boat captain.
Third Wish: Junghoon’s Wish (1:00:00- 1:08:00) and (1:12:19- 1:17:41)
Junghoon wished to eat tangerines (hallabong) under a stone wall on Jeju Island. The three remaining members had to fill a box each with ripe hallabong in order to earn lunch. They picked the fruit and tried some before heading out to a lunch location.
We learn in the second segment that the three members played a lunch game where they had to pick a hallabong and measure the sugar content of it. The results are given...I’ll reveal them in the spoilers section.
The preview for next week renames the trip as “The Tour of Hijacking Wishes”...I can’t wait to see how this bucolic idea goes wrong for the members
!!!Spoilers!!!
Junghoon was chosen to go fishing with Seonho. No one was able to catch a fish.
The three members that went to Junghoon’s wish all failed the lunch game and as such all the main dishes were removed from the feast that had been prepared for them.