The complete and comprehensive guide to The Hunger Games. The barbaric sporting event featured in Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games (2012), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015) and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023) Explained.

00:00 - Intro
01:11 - Dean Casca Highbottom
01:32 - Crassus Snow
02:28 - The Reaping
04:19 - Tessera
05:29 - Career Tributes
07:22 - Train ride
08:23 - Mentor, Stylist, Escort and Advisor
09:13 - Sponsors
10:18 - Placing Bets
12:37 - Haymitch Abernathy Explained
14:16 - The Parade
15:03 - Train Center
15:48 - Avox
15:56 - Training Days
17:37 - Alliances
18:17 - Training Scores
19:57 - The Interviews
20:06 - The Quarter Quell
22:54 - The Games
23:54 - The Launch Room
24:19 - Removable Arm Sleeves
24:25 - Tokens
26:00 - Cornucopia
27:23 - Fallen Tributes
28:17 - The Arena
29:53 - The Gamemakers
32:07 - Arena of the 75th
33:59 - Imax
34:19 - More traps
34:40 - Mutations (Mutts)
40:49 - Making the show entertaining
41:53 - The Feast
44:39 - Pods
45:45 - Life of a Victor

In this in-depth explanation and analysis, we follow characters like Dr. Volumnia Gaul (Viola Davis), Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth), Crassus Snow, and Dean Casca Highbottom (Peter Dinklage) creating turning the inefficient Hunger Games and turning it into something that helps helps President Snow (Donald Sutherland) keep control of Panem. We talk about how they took inspiration from Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), Sejanus Plinth (Josh Andrés Rivera) and Clemensia Dovecote (Ashley Liao).

We take you through the full history of the Games, all the way from the first games, to the 10th, the 25th, the 50th (Haymitch’s Games), 74th, 75th and 76th, etc. The complex design of the arena and the gamemakers', like Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Seneca Crane (Wes Bentley), contributions. The toll the games can have on Victor’s like Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson) and Finnick Odair (Sam Claflin). How someone like Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) managed to win two games in a row, after volunteering as tribute for her sister Willow Shields, also known as Primrose Everdeen. Katniss was a fend off career tributes, not protect Rue (Amandla Stenberg) and free herself from the tropical arena. We explore why the gamemakers try to feed the narrative of Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) and Katniss being a couple. How the Games and the system subtly keep district 1- 12 residents like Gale Hawthorne (Liam Hemsworth) stuck needing to provide for their families while getting no help.

Oh, by the way, the Games take place in a dystopian future, where two young representatives (tributes) from one of the 12 districts are selected from a raffle, as their names are picked at random. Each of the 24 tributes have to eliminate their fellow tributes until one victor remains. During this, all of Panem is forced to watch.

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