Karma (American TV series)

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Karma
HBO Max Karma.jpg
Genre Reality TV
Created by J. D. Roth
Scooter Braun
Presented by Michelle Khare
Country of origin United States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes8
Production
Executive producers J. D. Roth
Adam Greener
Sara Hansemenn
Fred Pichel
Production companyGoodStory Entertainment
Original release
Network HBO Max
ReleaseJune 18, 2020 (2020-6-18) [1]

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.

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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:

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.

  1. If both teams do not share the same amount of coins, the goal would be to find the number of coins that the team with the lowest amount has.

Season summaries

SeasonLawsTeamsFilming LocationWinning TeamRunner-Up TeamEpisodesOriginally aired
BoyGirlBoyGirlFirst airedLast aired
Karma 88 Shaver Lake, California Jack SilverSkyla SousaAaron Thomas Raye Andrea Munoz8June 18, 2020

Season 1 - Karma (2020)

The season consisted of eight teams (in order of elimination):

PositionTeamBoyAgeGirlAgeStarting Law
of Karma
Cave WinnerInherited
Law(s)
Law(s)
Held
NameHometownNameHometown
8th Green Elijah Mack San Diego, CA 14Skylie Thompson Cyril, OK 15GrowthYellowRed1
7th Orange Adren Gilmore Keller, TX 14Presley Alexander Los Angeles, CA 14FocusYellowYellow1
6th Yellow Elijah “Eli” Naidas Melbourne, FL 14Illya Mehrzai Houston, TX 14PatienceGreyPink2
5th Grey Huck Flanagan Pomfret, CT 15Sienna Coward Martinez, CA 14HumilityBlueBlue1
4th Blue Luke Youssef Hampton Falls, NH 14Ariana Pettit St. Johns, AZ 14ResponsibilityRedPurple2
3rd Pink Justin Darrigo Tewksbury, MA 14Avon Stoutamire Mary, SC 15GivingPurple3
2nd Red Aaron Thomas Raye Newburgh, ME 13Andrea Munoz Miami, FL 14ConnectionPurple (Finale)4
1st Purple Jack Silver Rahway, NJ 14Skyla Sousa Lowell, MA 14Inspiration4
Right-to-Stay Eliminations
BoyGirl
NameHometownAgeNameHometownAge
Jack Silver Rahway, NJ 14Ciera The Bronx, NY 14
Harrison Halewood Crowley, TX 15

Elimination table

ContestantsEpisodes
12345678
Jack & SkylaSAFESAFESAFESAFESAFESAFECAVEWIN (2)FIRST
Aaron & AndreaSAFESAFESAFESAFEWINCAVEWINWIN (4)SECOND
Avon & JustinSAFESAFESAFEWINSAFEWINOUT
Ariana & LukeSAFESAFEWINSAFECAVEOUT
Huck & SiennaSAFEWINSAFECAVEOUT
Eli & IllyaSAFECAVECAVEOUT
Adren & PresleySAFESAFEOUT
Mack & SkylieWINOUT
HarrisonQUIT
CieraOUT
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
TEAMS2345678**
PurpleYellowOrangeYellowGrayBlueCAVEFINALIST
RedYellowOrangeYellowWINCAVEWINFINALIST
PinkYellowOrangeWINBlueWINCAVEPurple
BlueYellowWINGray*CAVECAVEPurple
GrayWINOrangeCAVECAVEPurple
YellowCAVECAVECAVERed
OrangeYellowCAVERed
GreenCAVERed

*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

EpisodesMatches
2Yellow

1 coin found

Green

No coin found

3Yellow

1 coin found

Orange

No coin found

4Gray

4 coins found

Yellow

2 coins found

5Blue

3 coins found

Gray

2 coins found

6Red

2 coins found

Blue

1 coin found

7Purple

2 coins found

Pink

No coins found

Trivia

References

  1. 1 2 Petski, Denise (May 13, 2020). "HBO Max Sets Premiere Dates For 'Doom Patrol' Season 2, 'Adventure Time' Specials, Amy Schumer Docuseries & More". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved May 13, 2020.
  2. 1 2 Petski, Denise (September 9, 2019). "HBO Max Orders Kids Competition Series 'Karma' & 'Craftopia' Hosted By Michelle Khare & Lauren Riihimaki". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved October 17, 2019.
  3. "Scooter Braun Teams With JD Roth to Form Unscripted Content Studio". Variety. June 12, 2018. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
  4. Andreeva, Nellie (June 12, 2018). "Scooter Braun & JD Roth Launch Unscripted Content Studio GoodStory Entertainment". Deadline. Retrieved June 26, 2018.