In an action and drama atmosphere in which the world will be divided into two sides : Offshore, the good side, and Orland, the bad side. With the destruction and injustice people have in Inland, they a chance to move to live in Offshore by the restricted system called, the process, but according to the restricted rules of this system, only 3 percent of the people who aim for progress have a chance to succeed.
The characters are the show's strongest point, though, and it skilfully introduces the six core candidates throughout The Process' preliminary challenges in the first episode.
The uneven but compelling 3% argues for hemispheric resonance by making a farce out of - and mining terrific suspense from - the myth of deserved affluence, the obvious corollary of which is deserved poverty.
The reason why 3% works so well... is that it feels more personal and emotionally driven, easing us into connecting with characters who eventually become far more than their pilot-episode characteristics.
The show is obviously setting up a long-term payoff by the way the story is structured, but playing coy with the details ends up burning the creative team because none of it is particularly compelling.