Netflix’s Floor is Lava takes the classic children’s game to another level, as teams of contestants hop across furniture, scale walls, and desperately jump to safety. These teams are on a quest to win $10,000. Unlike some of Netflix’s other reality game shows, Floor is Lava isn’t tailored to professional or lifelong athletes. Teams of nurses, brothers, and friends tackle these challenges together, basking in cooperation...and the laughter and disappointment that comes from watching your teammate sink slowly into hot, bubbling ‘lava.’
Host Rutledge Wood revealed to Inverse that the most effective strategy for success on this fun, nostalgic game show is not athleticism, but creative thinking, with one of his favorite contestants being LaJaun. This contestant knew to press a hidden button, allowing his teammates to access a new path toward success. Ultimately, LaJuan was the only one of his teammates to successfully complete the course, with their team winning the episode.
Collaboration also plays a huge role in success, with more points accumulated as more teammates make it through the course. However, the show’s appeal is not limited to competitive gameplay. In an interview with THR, co-creators Irad Eyal and Megan McGrath noted that, given their fantastical surroundings, many contestants chose to act out dramatic, hilarious ‘deaths’ as they succumbed to the lava. They did this because the setting brought out an organically playful reaction, not because they were asked to. The lava was nearly a character itself, dramatically red and ferociously bubbling. Eyal describes it as their “secret sauce” made over months of development with Hollywood best and brightest chemists. Wood describes the temperature of the lava, “as warm as lava should be.”
Eyal and McGrath revealed that Floor is Lava was filmed in a former Ikea since no studios were willing to house thousands of gallons of faux-lava. The entire course was built from scratch, from the chairs to the couch cushions, which needed to be custom-made in order to make them lava-resistant. Imagining what future courses might look like, the duo aims to focus more on collaboration that will allow the contestants to work together in entertaining and innovative ways.
The show has been a huge success across North America and globally, with many people gravitating toward it’s comforting, nostalgic charm. As the world sits in quarantine, it’s become cathartic to see families and friends working together to live out a silly, wondrous childhood fantasy.
While the show has not yet been picked up for a second season, Eyal and McGrath have expressed interest in producing versions for international audiences...and potentially even celebrity specials. The duo revealed that many contestants have reached out looking for a “chance at redemption,” and they’ve left the door open for larger, more elaborate Floor is Lava sets in the future.
Source: THR
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