They’re fighting for their lives out there, so to speak, right? But for ‘Physical 100,’ they really didn’t want us to hit the really hard notes of effort,” Tang said. “A lot of characters on this show are really struggling.

In the case of “Physical 100,” which has many scenes of characters shouting, straining, and cheering encouragement, that taste of the original line preserves the sense of a crowd of people and of the environment itself. The style encourages timing adjustments so that a voice actor’s line can begin slightly after the character starts speaking without completely overriding the original dialogue. Kaiji Tang, who dubbed the game’s narrator and series’ finalist Jo Jin-hyeong, explained that the show utilized a dubbing process meant to preserve the contestants’ efforts and emotions beneath the voice actors’ interpretations in English. Those who opted to watch the English language dub of Season 1 may not have picked up on the creative choices that voice actors must bring to bear in recreating physical exertion at such extremes. Heavily inspired by the fictional game at the center of Netflix’s smash hit “Squid Game,” the reality series brings 100 contestants together to compete for the title of “the most perfect body.” Challenges include everything from finding out who can hang on a metal bar longest to hauling a 1.5-ton Viking ship up an incline. The success of the Korean reality series “Physical 100,” which sat atop the streamer’s non-English-language chart for most of February, proves there’s a hunger for reality programming from all corners of the globe.

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