# CGP Grey — Two Is the Wrong Number of Days Off

A stick-figure explainer that argues the five-days-on, two-days-off work week drains people, then proposes a mid-week 'Weekend Wednesday' as a fix. It runs on a battery metaphor, a fatigue-curve graph and a recurring row of day tiles.

- Code: EX-0065
- Kind: Explainer
- Format: Problem and solution
- Brand: CGP Grey
- Length: 164.7s · 29 beats · 10.6 beats/min · 30 hard cuts
- Industry: Productivity
- Style: Flat 2D, Characters, Voiceover, Light UI, Data viz, Humorous, Match cuts
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALaTm6VzTBw
- Full breakdown: https://cutmap.co/v/cgp-grey-two-is-the-wrong-number-of-days-off

## The breakdown

The full breakdown has eleven sheets: Snapshot, Opening, Structure, Timeline, Rhythm, Look, Movement, Sound & words, Why it works, Production, Build brief. It is available to Cutmap Pro members at https://cutmap.co/v/cgp-grey-two-is-the-wrong-number-of-days-off.
