Karma (2020 TV series)

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
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, 2020 (2020-06-18)[1]

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.

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

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.

References

1. 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. 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. 12 June 2018. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
4. Andreeva, Nellie (June 12, 2018). "Scooter Braun & JD Roth Launch Unscripted Content Studio GoodStory Entertainment". Deadline. Retrieved June 26, 2018.

External links

• Karma on HBO Max
• Karma at IMDb