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(Written September 28, 2024)
We are back. Tensions are high. Snails are cooking. For breakfast. Grab some Pepto-Bismol and let’s power through this.
The first words we hear are from Won Bin: “I’m dreaming of a coup.” THAT’S how you kick off an episode.
Everyone arrives at the barbecue area for breakfast. BOSS Sung Chan commands, “Bring the food now.” Chef Anton announces the meal of bibimbap and snail soup. He and Shotaro start prepping the ingredients while Eun Seok gripes, “So all you’ve done so far is catch the snails?” Is he always like this? Even when he’s not on this show?
Anton and Shotaro figure out how to cook the recipes they’ve pulled up on their phones. They’re having such a hard time of it, the BOSS has to help. Eun Seok actually helps peel potatoes. “You should have just made scrambled eggs, not this,” he grumbles. Wait, scrambled eggs were an option? We can see a dozen eggs sitting on the table with the other ingredients. What the hell, you guys?
“Today’s breakfast is vegan,” says Anton, who is currently preparing a meal with snails in it. “Good idea. We had a lot of meat yesterday,” Sung Chan says without a trace of sarcasm, while I bang my forehead on my desk.
Anton has to pull out his
phone again to look up how to chop a zucchini.
Eun Seok gives up and starts making the bibimbap himself. The others start frying eggs for this vegan meal.
Time for more Korean mukbang. Everyone enjoys a huge breakfast, even though it must be late afternoon by now. We don’t get an extended eating scene this time because the drums and dramatic music start playing. Someone has successfully pulled off a coup! The crew announces another election will be held. Sung Chan has only been the BOSS for about 12 hours, and he spent most of that time sleeping.
We find out the culprit was Shotaro. Before breakfast, he went straight to the crew and said he wanted a Mission Coup. I can’t believe it wasn’t Won Bin. Shotaro’s mission was to make the BOSS say the title of a drama or film at least three times.
We get flashbacks showing the awkward conversations Shotaro had to start to get this to happen, and the fact that Sung Chan never catches on tells me he deserves to be overthrown. Eun Seok doesn’t catch on either, although he does ask if the Mission Coup is making the BOSS prep the ingredients.
The voting booth is set up next to the table. Eun Seok’s eyes are darting around the table, wondering if he can set up an instant alliance. Dude, I’ll be shocked if anyone trusts you again. But he still tries. He tells So Hee that he’ll be exempt from being a worker in exchange for his vote. So Hee knows better than to commit.
We zoom in on Anton and Won
Bin, neither of whom has been BOSS yet.
No time for them to negotiate.
Voting is starting. Won Bin says
he’s desperate for revenge against Eun Seok.
Then dude, why didn’t you stage the coup? What an embarrassing bias you turned out to
be. So Hee even tells him, “If you don’t
get it this time, just give up.” Not
only should So Hee be the BOSS again, he should be Leader of the group. Won Bin says he doesn’t care as long as Eun
Seok doesn’t get it. There’s some
serious bad blood here.
The crew announces the winner, who got six votes. Everyone voted for him. It’s … Won Bin. I don’t know how, especially since Shotaro staged the coup in the first place, but fine. It should be fun to watch him take his revenge. He signs his letter and gets the budget, which now totals 300,000 won ($229 USD) because Sung Chan didn’t have time to spend any money.
“Yesterday’s sorrow will be released today,” says Won Bin. He immediately turns to the job of selecting the workers. Eun Seok can’t even look him in the eye. But according to the crew, Eun Seok did vote for him. He had to know this would happen. His motives make no sense. I’m guessing the crew rigged this election because everyone in the group has to be BOSS at least once.
Won Bin decrees that Eun Seok will be the only worker. WOW. I kind of like this petty look on Won Bin. Eun Seok’s first task is to clean up breakfast by himself. The others leave while Eun Seok makes plans to be the next BOSS. I can’t believe they all just left him there with the camera crew. All he has to do now is ask the crew for a coup assignment.
We flash forward to the whole band going to the creek to hang out. Won Bin gets a chair, umbrella, and coolers of snacks. Everyone else has to sit on the rocks, except for Eun Seok, whom Won Bin orders to stand.
Won Bin opens one of the
coolers and is excited to see patbingsu, which is a red bean paste on shaved
ice. Korean people must be the
healthiest people on Earth. While
several of the band members put the ingredients together, Anton grabs a raft
and plays in the creek, which looks way more fun.
Back on shore, Won Bin is being very generous with the food, even sharing with Eun Seok. These guys just had a huge breakfast, and now they’re eating fruit and donuts and bean paste. I don’t know where they’re putting it.
They go swimming right after eating a metric ton of food. Out of revenge, Won Bin has Shotaro flip Eun Seok’s innertube and push him into the water. They’re all having fun swimming, and I’m just waiting for the Jaws theme music, because I know SOMEONE must be attempting a coup. But no, this is where they end the episode. With everyone happily playing and splashing in the water.
I predict the next episode
will begin with the attack of a vegan snail army, who will have foolishly
joined an alliance with Eun Seok. Grab
your parsley garlic butter and join me there.
Episode 11: The Madness of King Won Bin
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