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American murder-mystery reality web series

Escape the Night
Logo from season 1
Also known as	Escape The Night with Joey Graceffa
Genre	Dark fantasy Fantasy Horror Murder mystery Reality competition
Created by	Joey Graceffa
Written by	Johjn Lawson
Directed by	Adam Lawson
Presented by	Joey Graceffa
Opening theme	Evil House by George Shaw
Composer	George Shaw
Country of origin	United States
Original languages	English, Irish
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	40 (+7 specials) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Adam Lawson Ari Weiner Brian Graden LB Horschler Catherine Keithley Nancy Tamayo Petar Mandich
Producers	Joey Graceffa Daniel Preda Chris Grannon
Cinematography	Cypress Sterling
Editor	Steve Grubel
Running time	19–41 Minutes
Production company	Brian Graden Media
Distributor	YouTube
Release
Original network	YouTube Premium
Picture format	4K (Ultra HD)
Original release	June 22, 2016 (2016-06-22) – September 4, 2019 (2019-09-04)
External links
Official website

Escape the Night is an American reality television series hosted by Joey Graceffa that was first broadcast on June 22, 2016 on YouTube Premium.^{[1] [2]} The series follows fantasy plots based in horror and murder mystery aesthetics. The fourth season was released on July 11, 2019.^[3] The series is produced by Brian Graden Media.^[4] As of September 4, 2019,^[update] 40 episodes of Escape the Night have aired, including seven specials, concluding the fourth season. It was the longest running series on YouTube Premium until its cancellation in 2020.^{[5] [6]}

Premise [edit]

The series follows The Savant (Joey Graceffa) as he finds himself in an estate in a past era, where he invites a number of guests to a party which requires them to act and dress as various personas from that era. Once there, they are cut off from the outside world, challenged to survive the night and escape the estate. To do this, the guests team up with him to participate in challenges and escape room puzzles, competing with each other to escape from the historical era by solving and completing them. At the end of each episode, two guests are voted into a challenge to compete against each other, where the losing guest is eliminated via a fictional death until one or more guests ultimately win and are sent back to the modern world.

Production [edit]

YouTube Era (2016-19) [edit]

Conception [edit]

When YouTube Premium launched in October 2015, Graceffa's show was one of ten exclusive original series scheduled to debut in 2016, and was still an untitled project.^{[7] [8]} The series was set to be produced by Brian Graden Media, and began filming in a house near Valencia, California.^{[4] [9]} Graceffa said that the show was inspired by an episode of television show Lizzie McGuire themed around a murder mystery, and was also closely related to the 1985 film Clue.^{[10] [9]} Graden called the show "a hybrid between scripted mystery and reality elimination show".^[4]

Distribution [edit]

The series debuted on June 22, 2016, with two episodes going live.^[11] The premiere episode had 11.3 million views and 1.1 billion social impressions.^[12] The show was renewed for a second season in October 2016, and was scheduled to debut on June 22, 2017.^{[13] [14]} In May 2018, Graceffa confirmed there would be a third season, which debuted on June 21, 2018.^{[15] [16]} The fourth season, which made it the longest running original series on YouTube, premiered on July 11, 2019.^[3] The first episode of season 4 premiered simultaneously at VidCon during a panel conference with Graceffa, and was also available to watch for free on YouTube.^[17]

Escape the Night: Escape Room [edit]

The Escape the Night: Escape Room was an immersive escape room centered around the fourth season of Escape the Night. The escape room was a limited event exclusively in Beverly Hills, California, that ran from August 9, 2019, to August 27, 2019. The escape room had multiple rooms to venture through, with surprise guest appearances from Graceffa, Jack O'Connor (Mortimer), and Eva Augustina Sinotte (The Sorceress).^[18]

Board game [edit]

In June 2020, Graceffa announced via vlog that due to COVID-19's impact on Hollywood and television, Season 5 was postponed indefinitely, but teased a new interactive fan version. Fans of the show signed up to an email list in order to receive updates about the new project.^{[19] [20]} In July 2020, a Kickstarter campaign was started to fund a board game based on the series; its goal of $30,000 was achieved in just 3 hours. It was formally announced the next day.^[21]

Cancelation [edit]

In June 2020, it was confirmed that YouTube Premium had declined to renew the show for a fifth season, canceling its longest running original series.^{[5] [6]} In June 2021, Graceffa stated in a vlog that YouTube will no longer fund and distribute further seasons of the series, but has stated that he has full ownership of the intellectual property, and is currently pitching the series for another season under a different network, and is also developing a potential spinoff.^[22]

Cast and characters [edit]

• Joey Graceffa as The Savant^[12]

Season 1 (1920s) [edit]

Guests [edit]

Name	Role	Eliminated
Eva Gutowski[11]	The Journalist	Winners
Oli White[11]	The Big Game Hunter
Lele Pons[11]	The Hustler	Episode 9
Tim Chantarangsu[11]	The Mobster	Episode 8
Matt Haag[11]	The Professor	Episode 7
Sierra Furtado[11]	The Heiress	Episode 6
GloZell Green[11]	The Jazz Singer	Episode 4 (Scripted/Planned[23])
Justine Ezarik[11]	The Gambler	Episode 3
Andrea Brooks[11]	The Fixer	Episode 2
Shane Dawson[11]	The Renegade	Episode 1 (Scripted/Planned[23])

Recurring [edit]

• Paul Chirico as Arthur
• Katia Hayes as Sarah
• David Hutchison as Marvin

Season 2 (The Victorian Era) [edit]

YouTubers [edit]

Name	Role	Eliminated
Andrea Russett[12]	The Mystic	Winners
Tyler Oakley[12]	The Thespian
Alex Wassabi[12]	The Novelist	Episode 9
Gabbie Hanna[12]	The Vaudevillian	Episode 7
Tana Mongeau[12]	The Saloon Girl	Episode 6
Liza Koshy[12]	The Explorer	Episode 5 (Scripted/Planned[23])
DeStorm Power[12]	The Railroad Tycoon	Episode 4
Jesse Wellens[12]	The Outlaw	Episode 3
Lauren Riihimaki[12]	The Engineer	Episode 2

Recurring [edit]

• Lindsay Elston as Alison
• AJ Martin as Jetpack Girl
• Eva Augustina Sinotte as The Sorceress
• Jermain Hollman as Morgan

Season 3 (1978) [edit]

YouTubers [edit]

Name	Role	Eliminated
Matthew Patrick[24]	The Detective	Winners
Nikita Dragun[25]	The Troublemaker
Manny Mua[26]	The Record Producer	Episode 9
Rosanna Pansino[26]	The Jet-Setter	Episode 8
Safiya Nygaard[25]	The Investigative Reporter	Episode 7
Colleen Ballinger[24]	The Disco Dancer	Episode 6
Teala Dunn[25]	The Super Spy	Episode 4
Roi Fabito[26]	The Daredevil	Episode 3
Jc Caylen[24]	The Hippie	Episode 2

Recurring [edit]

• Shontae Saldana as Calliope
• Jack O'Connor as Mortimer
• Micah Fitzgerald as The Carnival Master
• Amy Johnston as Jael, a member of the SAE
• Chris Wu as Ryu, a member of the SAE

Season 4: All Stars (1940s) [edit]

YouTubers [edit]

Name	Role	Original Season	Eliminated
Bretman Rock[27]	The Playboy	Season 4	Winners
Colleen Ballinger[27]	The Duchess	Season 3
Rosanna Pansino[27]	The Socialite	Season 3	Episode 9
Alex Wassabi[27]	The Aviator	Season 2	Episode 8
Gabbie Hanna[27]	The Hollywood Star	Season 2	Episode 5 (Scripted/Planned[28])
Tana Mongeau[27]	The Pin Up Girl	Season 2
DeStorm Power[27]	The Enforcer	Season 2	Episode 4
Tim Chantarangsu[27]	The Con Man	Season 1	Episode 3
Justine Ezarik[27]	The Adventurer	Season 1	Episode 2

Recurring [edit]

• Nikita Dragun
• Matthew Patrick
• Jack O'Connor as Mortimer
• Eva Augustina Sinotte as The Sorceress
• Shiobann Amisial as The Collector
• Amy Johnston as Jael
• Chris Wu as Ryu
• Liza Koshy

Episodes [edit]

Season 1 (2016) [edit]

Season 2 (2017) [edit]

Season 3 (2018) [edit]

Season 4: All Stars (2019) [edit]

Elimination charts [edit]

Color key:

The guest was one of the final survivors, winning the season. The guest was sent into, or found themselves in the death challenge and survived. The guest died, either by being sent in the death challenge, or finding themselves in the elimination and eligible for death without a vote. The guest was killed in a planned death The guest had to forfeit their life without or outside an death challenge taking place.

The guest was killed in a plot twist. The guest was revived. The guest survived the episode without being sent into a death challenge or finding themselves in danger of being eliminated. The guest died in a previous episode and does not appear.

Season 1 [edit]

Guest
	Episode 2	Episode 3	Episode 4	Episode 5	Episode 6	Episode 7	Episode 8	Episode 9	Episode 10
Joey	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Escaped
Eva	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe
Oli	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe
Lele	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Dead
Tim	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Dead
Matt	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Dead
Sierra	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Dead
GloZell	Safe	Safe	Dead [a]
Justine	Safe	Dead
Andrea	Dead

1. ^ Joey and Lele were sent into a challenge, and had to choose which guest would die. They chose to betray GloZell. The death of GloZell was scripted because she had a broken leg, and there was to be a lot of running in the following episode.

• Note: There was an extra guest at the start of the season in the form of "The Renegade", played by Shane Dawson. Within the storyline, Shane knew about the evil of the house as a member of the "Society Against Evil" and informed Sarah the maid that he knew what she was doing. As a result, the evil saw Shane as a threat and poisoned him. In order to save him, the other guests had to complete a puzzle task within a time limit. They failed, resulting in his death. Interviews with production staff confirmed that even if the group had completed the task within the time limit, Shane would instead have been killed by Marvin the groundskeeper when the car exploded later in the episode.^[23]

Season 2 [edit]

Guest
	Episode 2	Episode 3	Episode 4	Episode 5	Episode 6	Episode 7	Episode 8	Episode 9	Episode 10
Tyler	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Escaped
Andrea	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe[a]	Safe
Joey	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Dead [b]
Alex	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Dead
Gabbie	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Dead
Tana	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Dead [c]
Liza	Safe	Safe	Safe	Dead
DeStorm	Safe	Safe	Dead
Jesse	Safe	Dead [d]
Lauren	Dead

1. ^ Everyone had to compete in this challenge, with whoever finished last being the one to die. Andrea ended up finishing last, but a scripted event (Alison's death) revealed it was a non-death episode.
2. ^ Joey tries to get the Crown of Oblivion from the Sorceress, but the Sorceress was alive and stabbed Joey until he died. The Sorceress died after that and Tyler & Andrea were the only ones who survived.
3. ^ Joey and Andrea were sent into a challenge, and they had to choose which guest would die. They chose Tana.
4. ^ Gabbie and Tana were sent into a challenge to rescue either Jesse or DeStorm. They found out that the winner would get to choose whom to save. Gabbie won and chose to save DeStorm, and Jesse was killed. Jesse was supposed to be revived later in the series, but he ended up choosing to stay dead permanently.

^[a]

Season 3 [edit]

Guest
	Episode 2	Episode 3	Episode 4	Episode 5	Episode 6	Episode 7	Episode 8	Episode 9	Episode 10
Joey	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Escaped
Matthew	Safe	Safe	Safe	Dead		Safe [b]	Safe	Safe
Nikita	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe
Manny	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Dead
Rosanna	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Dead
Safiya	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Dead [c]
Colleen	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Dead
Teala	Safe	Safe	Dead
Roi	Safe	Dead
JC	Dead

1. ^ Liza was put into the Gingerbread womans challenge in which she lost however in a scripted event they tricked the Gingerbread woman and saved her life. Due to Liza having to leave set for a movie, the Sorceress appeared and Liza was killed.
2. ^ Matthew was beaten to death in episode 5 by Strong Man, but was revived by the Harp of Lazarus in episode 7, after 2 Lazurus coins were found.
3. ^ Since only Safiya and Rosanna escape Willie's Funhouse, the two have to vote two of the people that didn't make it out into the challenge. Safiya votes for Nikita, while Rosanna votes for Manny. Nikita wins, but in a shocking turn of events, both Nikita and Manny leave the Funhouse and find out that the person that voted for the winner of the challenge will end up being killed. While this is happening, Willie goes into the Divine Lounge where the others are, and kills Safiya with a hook.

Season 4 - All Stars [edit]

Guest
	Episode 2	Episode 3	Episode 4	Episode 5	Episode 6	Episode 7	Episode 8	Episode 9	Episode 10
Bretman	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Escaped
Colleen	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Dead		Safe [a]	Safe
Joey	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Unknown [b]
Rosanna	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Dead
Alex	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Dead
Gabbie	Safe	Safe	Safe	Dead [c]
Tana	Safe	Safe	Safe
DeStorm	Safe	Safe	Dead [d]
Tim	Safe	Dead
Justine	Dead

1. ^ Colleen was crushed by the Minotaur in episode 6, but was revived from the Genie's wish in episode 8.
2. ^ In a scripted event setting up a future season, Joey was attracted to Pandora's Box. He opened it, and was trapped inside.
3. ^ The double-elimination of Gabbie and Tana was scripted; Tana was scheduled to appear at the 2019 IHeart Radio Awards and could not film past Episode 5, while Gabbie was fired due to her disruptive behavior on set.
4. ^ DeStorm won the challenge, but decided to sacrifice himself.

Awards and nominations [edit]

See also [edit]

• Whodunnit? (2013 U.S. TV series)
• Murder in Small Town X
• Scared Famous (TV series)
• The Quest (2014 TV series)
• Busted!

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External links [edit]

• Escape the Night at IMDb

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_the_Night

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