Previously on Million Dollar Secret… Well, there’s no ‘previously’ because I’m writing about this just at the very end. Twelve contestants arrive at a chateau. All of them have shiny boxes but only one of those boxes has a million dollars in it. The other eleven contestants have to figure out who the millionaire is. Doing so wiill get them the money, and they have ways to do so. The show puts them in teams and gives them challenges. And after winning said challenges, the team chooses a rep. Trustworthiness gets Corey in the final six.

The others are Cara, Jaimi, Kyle, Sam, and Sydnee. For the seventh episode, the challenge divides them into three teams of two and involves one giving the other a massage. A cold stone massage, that is. Here, three of the contestants have to get into a pool that is colder than it normally is. Riveting stuff of course, and yes, I don’t know why I’m watching this instead of The Traitors, which is this show’s inspo. But there are moments here that show interesting behaviour, like Sydnee telling the other divers to watch so they don’t fall.

Falling is actually a good word to end on during the last paragraph because viewers are starting to see the contestant’s flaws. Host Peter Serafinowicz assigns for Sydnee a secret agenda. These agendas, by the way, help the challenge winners or millionaires to either get immunity or powers for the game. Now, on to the cracks, Sam, usually cool and composed while hiding being a cop, somehow can’t stay still for the challenge. And Sydnee is overdoing her klutziness for her agenda and everyone can see through her the way they caught others.

It’s a habit of me to overthink everything I watch, and I did that with Million Dollar Secret. This show basically entertains its viewers by making one or more of these contestants lie about one thing if not more things. The last challenge involves the final four doing an Entrapment style of counterheist to protect their boxes from thieves. Corey and Sam win, Cara and Sydnee lose, do the math on who doesn’t make the final four. But he thinks Cara threw the challenge because she has the money, which makes no sense.

There are at least four millionaires in Million Dollar Secret, all of them having different ways to approach challenges. Some of them might do what Corey said about throwing challenges so it looks like they’re playing even. The last two episodes are a bit challenge-heavy when sometimes the guessing games are more interesting to me. But it gives us enough of that guessing especially with the final twist when contestants pivot on strategies. The show decides on a final millionaire, and its final lines remind me of a Faulkner novel but funnier.

Stream the last two episodes of Million Dollar Secret on Netflix.