| Genre: | Reality TV |
| Creator: | J. D. Roth Scooter Braun |
| Presenter: | Michelle Khare |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Network: | HBO Max |
| First Aired: | [1] |
| Num Seasons: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 8 |
| Company: | GoodStory Entertainment |
| Executive Producer: | J. D. Roth Adam Greener Sara Hansemenn Fred Pichel |
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.
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]
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.
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 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) 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.
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 | nowrap | Presley Alexander | nowrap | 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 | nowrap | 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 | nowrap | 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 | |||
| Contestants | Episodes | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| nowrap | Jack & Skyla | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | CAVE | FIRST | ||||
| nowrap | Aaron & Andrea | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | CAVE | WIN | SECOND | ||||
| nowrap | Avon & Justin | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | WIN | OUT | |||||
| nowrap | Ariana & Luke | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | CAVE | OUT | ||||||
| nowrap | Huck & Sienna | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | CAVE | OUT | |||||||
| nowrap | Eli & Illya | SAFE | CAVE | CAVE | OUT | ||||||||
| nowrap | Adren & Presley | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | |||||||||
| nowrap | Mack & Skylie | WIN | OUT | ||||||||||
| Harrison | |||||||||||||
| Ciera | |||||||||||||
| 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 |
**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.
| 2 | Yellow1 coin found | GreenNo coin found | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Yellow1 coin found | OrangeNo coin found | |
| 4 | Gray4 coins found | Yellow2 coins found | |
| 5 | Blue3 coins found | Gray2 coins found | |
| 6 | Red2 coins found | Blue1 coin found | |
| 7 | Purple2 coins found | PinkNo coins found |