I do wish the plane had been more than a prop, though, especially since they started exploring it before host Alex Wagner arrived. The season-one, episode-one parachute jump barely counts as a challenge (despite how fraught that was behind the scenes!), so I like immediately beginning by breaking the players into smaller groups. While the first episode of The Mole season six is my least-favorite episode of this batch-and of any Mole season-because it’s so flat, the opening challenge is decent. Pranav Patel looks for a crate in a river as part of Netflix’s The Mole’s first test (Image via Netflix) Daintree Rainforest treasure hunt But why is the maximum amount so low? Is it because there are fewer tests in each episode, or lower cash amounts for individual tasks, or both? Episode 1: ‘Are You The Mole?’ In five episodes!īy comparison, The Mole season one offered $125,000 in the first episode.īoth $133,000 and $14,500 are pathetically low numbers. Wikipedia says-and I’ll trust their math over mine-that just $133,000 could have been earned.
Perhaps both, but I also think it’s a function of how, well, stingy this Netflix version is. Let’s start with how, at the end of these first five episodes, the pot is at $14,500, which is comically low.Īre the players are just bad at this game, or are they all sabotaging to pretend they’re the mole? What’s here are the details, behaviors, and clues (?) that stood out to me, though I’m sure I missed and/or immediately forgot about things, so let’s discuss!Īlso, I know at least a few of you are intimately familiar with international versions of The Mole, and thus recognize challenges that have appeared elsewhere, so I look forward to your insights in the comments about how the Netflix show adapted them. What kept me watching were the tests, so I’m focused mostly on those here, breaking them apart by episode and challenge.
My thoughts and criticism on the first half of the season-the weird sidelining of Alex, the lack of an overarching theme, the weak music, the way the cast is edited- are all in my review.
Half of Netflix’s The Mole has now been released, so it’s time for a spoiler-filled discussion of all of the game play, the perplexing game play, the stupid game play, and the individual tests in season six’s first five episodes.
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