Ever since the start of this journey, Beast Games has kept me hooked to the screen every single second of every single episode, of every single game, obstacle, challenge, loss, win and most importantly, all it's peculiar strangeness and painful moments. Now, after this finale, i can say i lived and witnessed a rare TV experience. Not because it's Jimmy Donaldson, or because this is another Reality TV show... but because of what it makes you see, ponder, regret and fear.
When i began episode 1, did i ever expect to have a product full of betrayal, friendships, what ifs and a show that would make me ponder what exactly money can do one and what people will and won't hesitate to do to have it? No, and yet... i also did.
The thing about BeastGames that wishes that you love, while hate at the same time, IS it's unfairness and it's stupid moments created by stupid people who are obsessed in their eyes with money that make stupid decisions, that affect everything negatively. Because, as we all know, Reality TV is not meant to be fair, nor does it want to be fair and hell yeah am i gonna hate it. Yet... that's what Beast Games shows differently.
It's aspect of unfairness and stupid decisions made by contestants, is exactly what Beast Games wants to prove to you, without wanting it. Any of those contestants, wants that prize as much as everyone else and since when is money gifted? Never and ever, so if you want that money, you must sacrifice everything, something and someone for your own good and to achieve it. Money is the reasons we live, it's the reason for why the world exists, but no one cares, not even the show itself... the slogan of money in here, isn't that to obtain, you need to be a seflish one. To win... is for your own self, your own needs and your own world. Beast Games, is unfair because it wants to be, because it wants to show you that money is Satan in person, that withou it you're dead in the water and for the people competing for it... it is your angel in disguise.
Money exists from greed, we make money for greed and power and without money, where we are now would be a fantasy. So, Beast Games doesn't make money and the people competing for it human garbage, but as souls that need help and that if they fail to achieve the prize in front of them... their square one will forever be a square one. No one is your friend when money is at stake, money never is a friend. So, the question that Beast Games always asked the viewer is: "if you were in that position, would you sacrifice everything and everyone, would you be the villiain of the story, would you be the number one target. Or are you gonna risk the way of niceness, be the angel of everything and in your own desire to never ever step into the dark side, not even if your entire place in the competition depended on it, and leave everything into fate, knowing well that someone who is more selfish than you, will ruin you at any step of the way?"
Life doesn't gift anything and neither does Beast Games. Sure, it's money in front of your face. But in 10 episodes, you are not competing just for money, you are competing to escape your own hell that is your poverty, your torment and your circle of despair. And if you were to survive the first episode, it is then that you realize what you stepped into. And it's up to you, to decide who you want to be and use your own skill to your advantage and outsmart the one that wants to outsmart you.
Beast Games is an experience that is unfair, will and has pissed people off, including me in certain episodes, will hate, but that if you dig deeper into what seems like a show to bank into the Reality TV genre of garbage and say that Jimmy wants to officially become the villain of the world, YouTube and everything in between, you'll see an eye opener into the world, the corrupt people inside it, the economy and how money... is a total bitch.
In it's flaws, Beast Games is a show that is pure brilliance and is an experience that leaves you hooked like a fish line. And while the contestants can definitely ruin your viewing experience, it's sometimes stupid way to play out feels questionable and some episodes are boring and some feel outright unfair, it is only to fuel the point above. You wanna hate the people competing for money... because money is the villain of the story and the people competing for it, are evil because of it.
A finale that concludes things brilliantly, fairly and leaves you with fear and a... clap. Beast Games is a rarity in television and hate it or not, what it shows you and wants to tell you... is the truth.
If a season 2 ever will be born into existence someday, i'll definitely be watching it. But, like y'all, i hope that the flaws from this season are fixed and of course, certain challenges aren't pure nothing and when there can be, let fairness be used. But for now, season 1 is over and this was a brilliant finale of a flawed, but nonentheless brilliant and fantastic show. Good job, Jimmy and good job to the rest of the crew.
And to everyone who lost, failed and was robbed, you all did amazing and all of y'all, fought hard to get to where you wanted to be. And despite the unfainress and selfishness some of y'all gave, you all fought and when you had to, your brains aligned and it is thanks to that, that you survived and got to where you got. You may not have won the prize, but you proved that despite your ego, you knew how to compete and knew that helping people, would pay good in the end.
To finish: Beast Games is an experience to behold and to whoever has missed out on it when it's first episodes released and didn't follow it episode from episode, in line to line, now it's the best time to jump in. You won't regret it.
