| Season Number: | 1 | ||||
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| Num Episodes: | 10 | ||||
| Network: | YouTube Red |
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]
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]
| Role | Outcome | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Joey Graceffa | The Savant | ||
| Eva Gutowski | The Journalist | ||
| Oli White | The Big Game Hunter | ||
| Lele Pons | The Hustler | 4th place | |
| Tim Chantarangsu | The Mobster | 5th place | |
| Matt Haag | The Professor | 6th place | |
| Sierra Furtado | The Heiress | 7th place | |
| GloZell Green | The Jazz Singer | 8th place | |
| Justine Ezarik | The Gambler | 9th place | |
| Andrea Brooks | The Fixer | 10th place | |
| Shane Dawson | The Renegade | 11th place |
Notes:
Legend:
| Episode | |||||||||||
| 1[7] | 2[8] | 3[9] | 4[10] | 5[11] | 6[12] | 7[13] | 8[14] | 9[15] | 10[16] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joey | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | Escaped | |
| Eva | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | |||||
| Oli | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | ||
| Lele | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | |||
| Tim | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | |||||
| Matt | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | ||||||
| Sierra | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | ||||||
| GloZell | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | ||||||||
| Justine | SAFE | SAFE | |||||||||
| Andrea | SAFE | ||||||||||
| Shane | |||||||||||
Legend:
| 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. | Tim Chantarangsu | 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. | Tim Chantarangsu | 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. | Tim Chantarangsu | They had to take part in a game, which was a hybrid of Battleship and Russian Roulette. | Tim Chantarangsu | 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. | Lele Pons | Electrocuted by the Learning Chair. | |
| Award | Year | Category | Recipient(s) and nominee(s) | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Streamy Awards | 2016 | Best Costume Design | Olivia Hines | [17] | |
| Best Ensemble Cast | Escape the Night |