Just like the dystopian present Squid Video games that impressed it, Beast Video games is getting a second season, regardless of a wave of controversy over the primary season of MrBeast’s Prime Video actuality competitors.
This week a casting name appeared on the Beast Video games web site asserting that contestant submissions are actually open for season two, which will probably be filming from Could to July 2025. A casting name was additionally posted on the official MrBeast casting web page on Instagram. The fact present, run by YouTuber Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, is providing a $5,000,000 grand prize for rivals in its real-life rendition of Squid Sport.
You may not need to soar on that contestant software, although. Season one among Beast Video games broke a slew of Guinness world data, nevertheless it has additionally confronted important backlash after gamers reported unsafe, humiliating situations on set, together with harassment, a scarcity of meals, and even hospitalizations. Some contestants have even filed ongoing lawsuits in opposition to MrBeast and Amazon.
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‘I am an fool’: MrBeast says he misplaced ‘tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}’ of his personal cash on Amazon’s Beast Video games
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MrBeast’s YouTube schtick is by some means even worse with the obscene Amazon cash being pumped into Beast Video games
On high of all that, MrBeast himself admitted earlier this yr that making Beast Video games “was not a great monetary choice.” Regardless of a rumored finances exceeding $100 million from Amazon, MrBeast reportedly paid tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} out of his personal pocket to make the present, with some particular person units costing upwards of $10 million to assemble.
As if unsafe contestant situations and finances troubles weren’t sufficient, season one among Beast Video games was hit with opinions that, to place it kindly, had been combined. The present’s IMDb web page consists of evaluate headline gems like “Contestants make me doubt humanity’s future,” “Good watch however nauseating,” and “Religion misplaced in humanity.”
Even on a primary manufacturing stage, it is onerous to not see Beast Video games as little greater than an extended YouTube video. It is jarring and at instances unnerving to observe, even should you like Squid Video games, particularly as a result of the tales of gamers competing in a actuality present to flee poverty aren’t fictional in Beast Video games.
Nonetheless, it appears the primary season’s troubles weren’t sufficient to keep off a sophomore season. Hopefully the MrBeast workforce learns from their errors in season one or, on the very least, remembers to feed their gamers a couple of instances a day this time round.
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