Floor Is Lava

6.5
2020

Teams compete to navigate rooms flooded with lava by leaping from chairs, hanging from curtains and swinging from chandeliers.

Production

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Trailers & Videos

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Floor is Lava | Official Trailer | Netflix

Seasons

10 Episodes • Premiered 2020

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1. The Basement: Level 1

8.2

A mom and her college-bound twins, three pastors and identical triplets use a mummy, an ark and assorted antiquities to traverse a flooded basement.

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2. The Bedroom: Level 1

6.6

In this episode, teachers, tennis pals and proud papas take leaps of faith across a magma-filled obstacle course designed to look like a bedroom.

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3. The Planetarium: Level 1

6.0

Three teams — the Mama's Boys, Triple Threat and the Edutainers — enter a lava-swept planetarium. Only one will emerge the victor.

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4. The Kitchen: Level 1

5.5

We need a giant stick of mozzarella stat! Doctors, nurses and party animals do culinary calisthenics in a kitchen like no other.

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5. The Study: Level 1

7.5

Flight attendants, fiancés and fierce ladies leap across couches, swing from cargo nets and find time to contemplate an abominable yeti.

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6. The Kitchen: Level 2

6.3

Two teams of lava-leaping maniacs go head-to-head in the kitchen, where one false move can send even the fiercest competitor to an unpleasant exit.

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7. The Planetarium: Level 2

4.0

A fresh crop of victims, er, players take on the planetarium level, where the Earth really is flat and giant red buttons are sometimes best avoided.

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8. The Basement: Level 2

Things bottom out on the basement level when a team of brawny bros takes on a trio of co-workers who met on the job.

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9. The Bedroom: Level 2

2.0

There's no rest for the wicked as three tenacious teams of two compete to survive a perilous journey across a booby-trapped and lava-filled bedroom.

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10. The Study: Level 2

6.0

In the season finale, host Rutledge Wood welcomes three new teams — including a trio of social media mavens — to the hottest party in town.

Cast

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Rutledge Wood

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2/10

Click here for a video version of this review: https://youtu.be/7LJt4WP_ngo

I’m pretty sure most kids played The Floor is Lava, and spent many hours leaping from the couch to the armchair to the coffee table trying to not die. Proving that there are few new ideas coming out of studios, a game show called _Floor is Lava_ has recently been added to Netflix. For some unexplained reason they didn’t add a “The” to the title of it, but who am I to question proper grammar... 

In a combination of the childhood game and modern day escape rooms, contestants, in teams of three have to make their way across an obstacle course. Apart from the bubbling lava floor, they have to leap from item to item, shimmy across walls, and figure out what items in the room can assist them and which are traps. 

There’s not much to say about this. If you’ve seen the trailer, you know exactly what you’re in for. There’s a loud annoying commentator, loud annoying contestants, and loud annoying and over-dramatic music and onscreen graphics. It’s like fingernails on a blackboard and I found myself skipping all the interstitials to get to the actual team runs.

It’s pretty dumb stuff, and after two episodes I struggled to be entertained by it, and it quickly became background TV while I was doing much more interesting things like watching paint dry. 

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