Destination X kicks its travel-based trickery into high gear this week, trading US highways for European heights. Tuesday’s episode, Take It Up a Notch (Season 1, Episode 2), airing at 10 PM ET on NBC, finds the contestants quite literally ascending to new levels as the game’s bus/board game hybrid rolls to the top of Europe.
The challenge, for those unfamiliar, is simple: figure out where you are. Each week, players are given clues—some helpful, some designed to mislead—as they crisscross the continent. The person farthest from the actual mystery location at the end of each leg gets booted. First one to reach the final, still-secret Destination X wins a fat stack of cash.
As the remaining players size up the scenery and parse the latest round of clues, the social game ramps up. Alliances shift, suspicions grow, and the fine art of misdirection becomes a crucial skill. This episode sees one player’s gamble pay off big—at the direct expense of another’s game.
Destination X sets out to inject some actual geography and real-world travel into the reality competition format. Whether its central gimmick has staying power is still up for debate, but this week’s episode dials up the drama, suggesting the producers are more than willing to lean into the interpersonal tension as much as the globe-trotting.
Destination X airs Tuesdays at 10:00 PM ET on NBC.
