Since Netflix has introduced this Top 10 feature, it’s become quite evident that game shows are a winner when it comes to streaming performance. The show’s popularity has skyrocketed in a surprisingly brief period of time with its binge-worthy set of 10 episodes. It has an almost primal quality to it with the contestants physically struggling across the obstacles and the raw emotion that echoes with their guttural screams.
If you don’t already know about it, Floor Is Lava is quite literally the hottest game show in history. It is featured on Netflix and involves three teams being dared to navigate rooms flooded with lava. Whether they choose to accomplish this by dangling onto curtains or leaping for chandeliers is up to them. Make it across the room, and your team scores a point, fall into the lava, and you’re out! There are multiple levels within various settings, including “The Basement,” “The Bedroom,” “The Planetarium,” “The Kitchen” and “The Study.” The team standings with the maximum number of points at the end of it take home a reward of $10,000. In the event of a draw, the reward goes to the squad with the fastest time record.
Yes, this show is utterly ridiculous, but why can’t we stop watching it? It is shown is based on our childhood make pretend game where you can’t come in contact with the floor. We’ve all played one version or the other of it as kids. The 90’s “Parkour.” Probably linked to the memory of that time where you broke your mother’s favourite china or that family heirloom vase. You get the idea. It’s a fairly simple concept.
The genius of it is how well thought through the whole process is. Every embarrassing body fling must be meticulously planned. Each team must work together to discover secret items and switches that unlock further routes.
The contestants are instructed to take the lava extremely seriously, and yet you’ll see situations where a teammate decides to heroically sacrifice themselves to eliminate a certain obstacle for the rest of the team. These actions of self-sacrifice are received with anguished screams of “Nooo!” from the teammates and are then replayed to painfully inspiring music in slow-motion. Not to mention the fact that the succeeding teammate makes it absolutely clear that the sacrifice had been for nothing. The silliness and drama of it are absolutely hilarious and has us all hooked.
What makes it even better is the fact that the bright bubbling lava is deep enough to completely swallow up the contestant. It is apparently made up of 100,000 gallons of slime, clearly more slime than any Netflix feature has ever dreamt of producing. What’s more, the show very smartly cuts off the scene before the person that has fallen into the “lava” makes it back to the surface. Yes, this is yet another opportunity to traumatise your children. Tell them it’s real.
For the rest of you all, it is sure to give you a stomach ache from all the laughing as you watch full-grown adults rebounding off semi-solid objects and crashing into faux furniture face first. So get “steaming.”
Oh, and yes! Do not try this at home. Unless of course, you happen to have 100,000 gallons of orange sauce.
Source : Floor Is Lava
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