Beast Games, the competition reality show by MrBeast, is back with a second season. With the new season, the theme is Strong vs Smart. Who’s going to win, the strongest people in the word or the smartest people in the world?

“Amazon is great partners and obviously, we’re the largest YouTube channel in the world, our Mr. Beast YouTube channel, so I’m used to having a big microscope on us,” MrBeast tells Nerd Reactor. “I obviously don’t want to do anything that makes YouTube look bad. So in the same regard, I don’t really propose anything that, not because I’m trying to make Amazon happy, it’s just I don’t really do anything that would usually. So no, that’s not really an issue. If I was trying to have the contestants smoke cigarettes and whoever smokes the cigarette the fastest, I’m sure they’d be like, ‘Hell no.’ But, you know, that’s not the kind of stuff we do.”

The City makes a return, and there are so many moving parts behind the scenes.

“There’s an army of people just to support the City because inside those walls, we essentially create a utopia for the contestants,” he said. “Everything’s taken care of, from their beds to their food to the water supply to everything. But every one of these little things, there has to be people that obviously do it. And even little things like we built the city in a field, and there’s a chance that a snake might crawl into the city.

“So we literally had two people whose job was just to patrol the outside of the city and wrangle any potential snakes to make sure no snakes get into it. We’re talking like so many different things that you wouldn’t even think of outside the city to support this utopia, so the contestants can think about nothing but game playing strategy.”

Beast Games is the most viewed non-scripted show on Prime Video, and the different streaming platforms had different ideas on what Beast Games should be.

“I’m grateful, though, because with season one of Beast Games, we did everything different,” MrBeast said. “Like reality shows have kind of been the same for the last 20 years. No one’s really doing anything crazy, especially nowhere near to the degree we’re doing. Hindsight is always 20-20, and we can look back at season one of Beast Games and be like, ‘Oh, well, duh, you know, largest cash prize in history, most contestants in history, created sets in history and blah, blah, blah.’ And I think, of course, that would do well.

“But we talked to a lot of other streaming platforms, and they were like, ‘Eh, I don’t know. This isn’t how reality shows are done.’ But, you know, to Prime Video’s credit, they were like, ‘Oh, this makes sense.’ Since the start, they’ve been like, ‘We agree. It’s your vision.’ And they’ve given me control to do basically whatever I think, as long as it doesn’t hurt people and it’s legal. Not that I want to do those things anyways to create the show. And so, no, I think it’s more of a testament to how just good of a partner they’ve been and it’s been amazing.”

Beast Games Season 2 is now available on Prime Video.