MrBeast's new Amazon Prime Video series has received a shockingly bad Rotten Tomatoes score from critics.
With a reported £79,600,000 budget, Beast Games is the YouTuber's first ever game show on Amazon with 'the largest cash prize in TV history' up for grabs.
1,000 contestants battle it out for £3,980,000, as MrBeast - real name Jimmy Donaldson - also promises to give 'away a private island, Lamborghinis, and millions more in cash throughout the competition'.
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The 26-year-old spent £11,950,000 million to build 'Beast City', in Toronto, Canada, with only the top 493 contestants being able to compete there.
Throughout the series, contestants are faced with all sorts of challenges, such as 'bribes'. And if they accept, they risk eliminating the whole group they are in.
In the second episode, for instance, four captains are chosen from each team and each captain was offered the chance to win $1 million, eliminating their whole group in the process. None of the captains budged.
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In episode three, it gets crazier as teams of three were placed into big red cubicles and had five hours to decide who they would be eliminating.
Long story short, the rules are absolutely brutal, and BeastGames currently trends at number two in the UK.
“My goal is to make the greatest show possible and prove YouTubers and creators can succeed on other platforms,” MrBeast, the host and executive producer, told Amazon.
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“Amazon gave me the creative control I need to try and make it happen. I hope to make the YouTube community proud.”
Over on Rotten Tomatoes though, the critics have given it an underwhelming 17 percent.
Stuart Heritage of the Guardian wrote: "True, there is something weirdly compelling about Beast Games, but it is compelling in the same way that picking a scab is. It exists solely to show us the worst of the human condition, as obnoxiously as possible."
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"I just watched Beast Games episode 1 & I literally feel sick to my stomach," a second said.
Meanwhile, ordinary viewers have given it a very generous 74 percent, at the time of writing.
"It does make human beings seem selfish and violently obsessed with money But it’s good TV… and I’m sad to admit that I myself enjoyed it," one penned.
Another added: "I watched the first two episodes of Beast Games and I gotta say; we live in a blessed timeline. This is literally the largest game show/psychological experiment ever mustered in human history and no one else could have put it together but Mr Beast. VERY hype to see how it ends."
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Before the show came out on 19 December people working on the set accused the production of ‘inhumane’ conditions and insufficient wages.
Last month, MrBeast said the allegations were ‘blown out of proportion’.
Topics: Amazon, MrBeast, YouTube, Rotten Tomatoes, Entertainment, TV and Film
Anish Vij