The first season of Escape the Night premiered on June 22, 2016, through YouTube Red. The premiere season showcased a total of ten guests invited to The Savant's party and required them to act and dress as various personas from the Roaring Twenties.[1] Once there, isolated from the outside world and tasked with surviving the night and escaping the historical era.[2]
Production
In October 2015, the subscription service formerly known as YouTube Red, revealed upcoming projects such as Fight of the Living Dead, A Trip to Unicorn Island (2016), Single by 30, and Scare PewDiePie. This also includes an untitled Joey Graceffa project that involves a murder mystery.[3] A year later, the subscription service teased clips of their upcoming murder mystery series.[4] Sam Gutelle, a writer from Tubefilter, described the potential series as "the board game Clue" which turns the party "into a whodunit, with each guest transformed into a suspect."[5] Joey Graceffa, the creator of the series, revealed in a Teen Vogue interview that "the idea for the project has been in the works for two years, and that he most looked forward to collaborating" with other YouTubers.[6]
Guests
Guests from the first season of Escape the Night and their backgrounds
The guest was eliminated but was never voted for a challenge.
The guest was eliminated after their first time being voted for a challenge.
The guest was eliminated after their second time being voted for a challenge.
The guest was eliminated after their third time being voted for a challenge.
Episode
Guest(s)
Challenge
Eliminated
Cause of Death
1
Everyone
Everyone had to complete a series of impossible tasks to gain the cure to the poison that Shane Dawson had ingested.
Shane Dawson
Poisoned by the Evil of the House.
2
Andrea Brooks
vs.
Lele Pons
Their chosen partners had to complete a series of tasks involving the wiring and piping with the first to finish causing their partner to escape, but the other's tank to be filled with poisonous gas.
Andrea Brooks
Inhaled noxious gas produced by the Ungodly Machine.
3
Everyone
The guests had to vote for one of their friends to be buried alive and then be the ones to bury them.
Justine Ezarik
Buried alive to reverse the Claws Ritual.
4
Joey Graceffa
vs.
Lele Pons
They had to do tasks involving mannequins to get keys to open a drawer which was revealed to contain a Murder Journal in which they had to write one name.
GloZell Green
Choked on her own blood after Joey wrote her name in the Murder Journal.
5
Oli White
vs.
Timothy DeLaGhetto
Need to perform in a circus show and receive points for whoever did better and whoever got the least points would supposedly die.
None
The Ring Master spared their lives.
6
Matt Haag
vs.
Sierra Furtado
Sierra had to hold down a possessed girl and recite a prayer whilst Matt needed to perform a ritual around them. Unbeknownst to either, a rosary involved in Matt's task would kill the person who wore it.
Sierra Furtado
Demonically possessed and convulsed to death.
7
Matt Haag
vs.
Timothy DeLaGhetto
Needed to organize a doll house correctly to get the vials. Winner got to choose which vial they drank, one was poisoned, the other was not.
Matt Haag
Ingested poison twice.
8
Eva Gutowski
vs.
Timothy DeLaGhetto
They had to take part in a game, which was a hybrid of Battleship and Russian Roulette.
Timothy DeLaGhetto
Shot himself in the head while playing Russian Roulette.
9
Lele Pons
vs.
Oli White
Their chosen partners had to throw rings. However, with every miss their partner would be electrocuted, and whoever's partner finished last would have their chair overloaded with electricity.
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