Escape the Night (2016–2019)
6/10
It has potential
4 December 2020
Warning: Spoilers
I gave it a really fair chance and finished season 4, however my biggest complaint is that it's the same thing every single episode, and every single season. At the end of EVERY episode 2 people get voted to fight to the death so they can escape wherever they are, until the very end of the season where you're left with maybe 3 people who escape, only for Joey to do the whole thing again the next season.

There are some moments that made me actually laugh, and I probably stayed more for some of the characters than for the overall plot. The starting idea of the show was solid, but I wish they could've gotten out of the continuous loop of having a large group of people, voting who's going to fight, and then one of them dying. I know that's the premise, but even the missions and challenges they do seem extremely repetitive by the 4th season. I kind of just want there to be more variety and surprise to the plot, and that there would be more of a twist than just figuring out riddles and unlocking chests and boxes.

I have to shoutout a few youtubers who I haven't watched before (and some I probably won't after this that I liked), but actually really enjoyed their performance: MatPat and Rosanna Pansino (my favorites), Nikita Dragun, Safiya Nygaard, Bretman Rock, DeStorm, Alex Wassabi, and Oli White. The humor wasn't always my cup of tea, but these people gave me a few laughs.

Overall, it's an okay pastime show, but I'm glad it's currently free on YouTube because I wouldn't have paid to watch it.
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