Karma is an American competitive children's television series hosted by Michelle Khare. It premiered on HBO Max on June 18, 2020.[2][1] For unknown reasons, the show was taken down from HBO Max on September 1, 2020, and now is not currently available to view.
| Karma | |
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| Genre | Reality TV |
| Created by | J. D. Roth Scooter Braun |
| Presented by | Michelle Khare |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | J. D. Roth Adam Greener Sara Hansemenn Fred Pichel |
| Production company | GoodStory Entertainment |
| Original release | |
| Network | HBO Max |
| Release | June 18[1] – June 18, 2020 |
Production
Produced by GoodStory Entertainment, Karma was co-created by actor and children's game show presenter J. D. Roth and music producer Scooter Braun.[3][4] It was announced on October 9, 2019, that HBO Max had picked up the show with Michelle Khare as host with an anticipated June 2020 release date.[2]
The contests
The laws of Karma
Each team selects a law of Karma and a color to represent it. These laws are given in the form of a medallion representing each law. The eight laws of Karma in Season One were:
- Inspiration
- Connection
- Patience
- Giving
- Humility
- Growth
- Focus
- Responsibility
Once eliminated, players had their medallions given to one of the remaining teams.
Karma Coins
After the team that won the challenge selects two teams to send to the Cave of Karma, the remaining teams each receive a Karma Coin. They will give these Karma coins to one of the two teams chosen to go to the Cave at the offering. At the offering, each of the safe teams, excluding the team that won the challenge, come up one at a time and hand their team's coin to the team that they wanted to help at the Cave. The coins play a role in the cave, and having more coins would give the teams more opportunities to survive the Cave.
The Cave of Karma
The winning team of the challenge would get to select two teams to send to the Cave of Karma, where they would face off in a challenge which would eliminate one team. The challenge at the Cave was to find one (or more) Karma Coin(s[Note 1]) given to them. The coins were hidden by the opposing team under one of the 10 stone chambers that were on each side. After the hiding of the coins, each team would take turns to find their coin(s) by smashing open one of the chambers. The first team to find that Cave's amount of coins would win and return to the game.
Season summaries
| Season | Laws | Teams | Filming Location | Winning Team | Runner-Up Team | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boy | Girl | Boy | Girl | First aired | Last aired | |||||
| Karma | 8 | 8 | Shaver Lake, California | Jack Silver | Skyla Sousa | Aaron Thomas Raye | Andrea Munoz | 8 | June 18, 2020 | |
Season 1 - Karma (2020)
The season consisted of eight teams (in order of elimination):
| Position | Team | Boy | Age | Girl | Age | Starting Law of Karma | Cave Winner | Inherited Law(s) | Law(s) Held | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Hometown | Name | Hometown | ||||||||
| 8th | Green | Elijah Mack | San Diego, CA | 14 | Skylie Thompson | Cyril, OK | 15 | Growth | Yellow | Red | 1 |
| 7th | Orange | Adren Gilmore | Keller, TX | 14 | Presley Alexander | Los Angeles, CA | 14 | Focus | Yellow | Yellow | 1 |
| 6th | Yellow | Elijah “Eli” Naidas | Melbourne, FL | 14 | Illya Mehrzai | Houston, TX | 14 | Patience | Grey | Pink | 2 |
| 5th | Grey | Huck Flanagan | Pomfret, CT | 15 | Sienna Coward | Martinez, CA | 14 | Humility | Blue | Blue | 1 |
| 4th | Blue | Luke Youssef | Hampton Falls, NH | 14 | Ariana Pettit | St. Johns, AZ | 14 | Responsibility | Red | Purple | 2 |
| 3rd | Pink | Justin Darrigo | Tewksbury, MA | 14 | Avon Stoutamire | Mary, SC | 15 | Giving | Purple | 3 | |
| 2nd | Red | Aaron Thomas Raye | Newburgh, ME | 13 | Andrea Munoz | Miami, FL | 14 | Connection | Purple (Finale) | 4 | |
| 1st | Purple | Jack Silver | Rahway, NJ | 14 | Skyla Sousa | Lowell, MA | 14 | Inspiration | 4 | ||
| Right-to-Stay Eliminations |
|---|
| Boy | Girl | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Hometown | Age | Name | Hometown | Age |
| Jack Silver | Rahway, NJ | 14 | Ciera | The Bronx, NY | 14 |
| Harrison Halewood | Crowley, TX | 15 | |||
Elimination table
| Contestants | Episodes | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |||||||
| Jack & Skyla | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | CAVE | WIN (2) | FIRST | |||||
| Aaron & Andrea | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | CAVE | WIN | WIN (4) | SECOND | |||||
| Avon & Justin | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | WIN | OUT | |||||||
| Ariana & Luke | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | CAVE | OUT | ||||||||
| Huck & Sienna | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | CAVE | OUT | |||||||||
| Eli & Illya | SAFE | CAVE | CAVE | OUT | ||||||||||
| Adren & Presley | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | |||||||||||
| Mack & Skylie | WIN | OUT | ||||||||||||
| Harrison | QUIT | |||||||||||||
| Ciera | OUT | |||||||||||||
- Key
- The team won the Final Cave Challenge and became “Karma” Champions.
- The team lost the Final Cave Challenge and were the runners-up.
- The contestant won the team selection challenge and created all the teams of Karma.
- The team won the Team Challenge and sent two other teams to the Cave of Karma.
- The contestant won Laws of Karma at a challenge.
- The team did not win the challenge, but was safe from going to the Cave of Karma.
- The team won at the Cave of Karma and avoided elimination.
- The team lost at the Cave of Karma and was eliminated.
- The contestant was eliminated at the Right to Stay.
- The contestant withdrew from the competition.
Offering Summary
| EPISODES | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAMS | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8** |
| Purple | Yellow | Orange | Yellow | Gray | Blue | CAVE | FINALIST |
| Red | Yellow | Orange | Yellow | WIN | CAVE | WIN | FINALIST |
| Pink | Yellow | Orange | WIN | Blue | WIN | CAVE | Purple |
| Blue | Yellow | WIN | Gray* | CAVE | CAVE | Purple | |
| Gray | WIN | Orange | CAVE | CAVE | Purple | ||
| Yellow | CAVE | CAVE | CAVE | Red | |||
| Orange | Yellow | CAVE | Red | ||||
| Green | CAVE | Red | |||||
*Blue team offered Gray team one regular Karma coin, plus an extra Karma coin they won in the "Tlit" team challenge.
**In the Final, the eliminated teams offered clues instead of coins to the final two teams. These clues would help them in the final Cave of Karma.
WIN: The team won the challenge. Since they nominated two team to go to The Cave of Karma, they will not make an offering.
CAVE: The team was sent to go to The Cave of Karma.
FINALIST: The team is a Karma finalist.
Cave of Karma Matches
| Episodes | Matches | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Yellow 1 coin found | Green No coin found |
| 3 | Yellow 1 coin found | Orange No coin found |
| 4 | Gray 4 coins found | Yellow 2 coins found |
| 5 | Blue 3 coins found | Gray 2 coins found |
| 6 | Red 2 coins found | Blue 1 coin found |
| 7 | Purple 2 coins found | Pink No coins found |
Trivia
- The Yellow team was the only team to not only go to The Cave of Karma three times, but also go back-to-back three times.
- Red team had won three team challenges (Ring My Bell, Pull it Up, I've got it in the Bag), which makes them the team with most team challenge wins. Closely followed by Pink team with two wins (Fill and Spill, Head Strong).
- Yellow team had won two Cave of Karma matches, which makes them the team with the most Cave of Karma wins. Gray, Blue, Red and Purple are all tied with one win.
- Yellow team had the highest amount of Karma Coins offered to them will a total of seven coins.
- According to the Rob has a Podcast Karma recap for episode 2, in the Green vs Yellow Cave of Karma match up, Green team found their one coin on the first swing. Yellow team also found one of their coins, which caused a reset. This was not shown in the episode.
- The Purple team and Pink team got offered a total of 4 medallions each, which makes them the teams with the most medallions offered to them by another team. (Pink was offered 4 medallions, all from Yellow team. Purple was offered 4 medallions, all from the Blue team)
- Green, Orange, and Pink were the only teams to be eliminated at The Cave of Karma on the first visit.
