Mr. Beast's survival television series, Beast Games, is now seven episodes deep. While the critics and rotten tomatoes haven't spoken too highly of it, it has become my and my brother's go-to watch each Thursday night. Mr. Beast, aka Jimmy Donaldson, brought his Youtube reputation of extreme stunts and enormous cash prizes to Amazon Prime and propelled the show to the No. 1 spot in 80 countries. The cash and theatrics are impressive, but in each episode, I love seeing Mr. Beast's creative twisting of classic psychological dilemmas.

The most recent episode was a real-life Trolley Problem. The actual problem is whether an observer would adjust the direction of a freight train where one side of the tracks has a loved one and the other has several perfect strangers. While it seemed more straightforward for the participants of Beast Games to eliminate their opponents since it wasn't actual life or death, the influence of these psychological questions has been sprinkled throughout the show. What makes it so great is he pushes people's morals where they are to decide between saving themselves and others or an enormous sum of cash. He sees how much it takes to buy a person even after they've given their word to others. It's awkward, manipulative, and full of exaggerated drama, and I love it.