Release Date for ‘Beast Games’ Season 2 Revealed

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The popular MrBeast show, Beast Games, is returning for another season, and Prime Video is letting fans know about it in advance.

The new season of the show will premiere on January 7, 2026. The first three episodes will be available immediately, with new episodes released weekly, culminating in the season finale on February 25th.

Prime Video announced that the second season will continue to offer a $5 million grand prize. While the first season featured additional surprises like giveaways and a risky bet that boosted the winner’s total to $10 million, season two will stick with the standard $5 million.

The upcoming season centers around a classic matchup: strength against intelligence. One hundred physically powerful contestants will compete against one hundred strategically minded ones, with this central theme driving all the challenges.

The company confirmed they greenlit a third season earlier this year. Prime Video reports that the first season attracted fifty million viewers globally within its first twenty-five days, making it their most popular unscripted series to date.

Jimmy Donaldson, known as MrBeast, will once again host and oversee the show as an executive producer. He’s joined by the creative team of Sean Klitzner, Tyler Conklin, and Mack Hopkins. Klitzner and Matt Apps are returning as showrunners, alongside executive producers Michael Cruz, Jeff Housenbold, Tyler Conklin, Michael Miller, Josh Kulic, and Chris Keiper. Tyler Conklin will also direct every episode of the new season.

MrBeast’s ‘Beast Games’ brings his signature large-scale challenges and ambitious ideas from YouTube to a new, high-quality reality show. The first season was a big success for Prime Video, becoming their second most popular premiere of 2024 after ‘Fallout’. Amazon reported that around half of the viewers were international, watching from outside the US.

While viewers loved the show, professional critics were divided. It received a low score of 20% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on ten reviews, and a 38 out of 100 on Metacritic.

Some viewers found MrBeast’s presentation overly energetic and thought the show didn’t give enough attention to the participants. Naomi Fry of The New Yorker noted that referring to contestants by numbers instead of names made it difficult to feel invested in them, unlike other reality competitions. Several publications – including IGN, The Guardian, Vox, and PC Gamer – compared the show to Squid Game, but pointed out it lacked the intense, thought-provoking elements that made Squid Game so compelling.

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2025-11-21 03:14