The WORST episodes of Solitary
Every episode of Solitary ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Solitary!
This new reality competition by FOX pits nine people against each other in the ultimate battle of endurance. Nine contestants are isolated from the rest of the world -- and also from each other. The players then become subjects in a series of strange and taxing experiments. They must endure challenges involving hunger, pain, sleep deprevation, mind control, and more! All for the coveted $50,000 prize. Though there are nine players in this game, the real battle lies between each contestant and his or her own self.
#3 - Say Hello to Your Little Friend
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/11/2007
Val surprises her guests with a small companion in Solitary. But her kindness ends quickly as the guests' sanity and stamina are tested trying to memorize a twisted message. The winning guest is spared an exhausting dance with a weighted dummy that drags everyone else down.
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#5 - Rats
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/31/2009
The agonizing conclusion of Val’s “Flesh Clip” treatment leaves the guests battered and bruised. Their nerves are further tested by dozens of snapping mousetraps. One guest unravels before an aromatic final-assault drives them all senseless.
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Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/31/2006
Join the nine former pod people, including the grand-prize winner, as they look back on their time inside their octagon-shaped cells. Get the inside scoop on what it was like dealing with their solitude and the infamous Val.
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Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/27/2010
Val redecorates the pods into cells that make the guests meager living space even more unlivable; before a thrilling prison break earns one guest freedom.
#9 - Dunk if You're Ornery
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/13/2010
Val plays head games with the final three Guests in a test that makes them color blind, before a treatment that requires mental balance and inhuman strength to survive.
#12 - Hell Night: Morning, Afternoon
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/22/2007
The final two Solitarians compete in a vicious gauntlet of tests that pushes one to their limit. Then Val's Hammock from Hell promises to destroy one guest and make the other fifty thousand dollars richer.
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Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/18/2007
A child's game becomes the most frustrating test yet as the guests try to steady their nerves and build an impossibly long chain of dominoes. Then Val turns up the cruelty in a treatment that blends the guests' favorite foods together into a vile smoothie that will "throw up" one of them for an exit from Solitary forever.
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Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/30/2010
Val's new guests are shocked to find themselves locked in chains. The surprises keep coming when one guest is quickly eliminated... only to be replaced by a Solitary veteran.
#18 - The W Of S 3.0
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/7/2009
The conclusion to Val's relentless experiment begins with one guest falling from grace. The final two go head-to-spinning-head in an "a-maze-ing" test that gives one of them an advantage in the electrifying final treatment.
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#19 - Battle of the Pods
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/17/2009
The experiment begins with a shocking twist. This season’s guests enter Solitary two by two and must fight for their very existence from the moment they arrive. Then two guests are sacrificed at the Solitary altar before this 90-minute special concludes.
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Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/25/2007
Val's Solitary Auction puts the guests at each other's throats as they fight over comforts for themselves...and discomforts for each other - before Val's brutal "grump rope" treatment causes another guest to bite the dust.
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Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/4/2007
The experiment begins where season one ended as the guests are locked into individual black boxes. One guest freaks out and quits before the first elimination treatment even begins, but when it does, the footbed-of-nails has everyone else suffering the agony of da' feet.
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Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/28/2009
Val’s most macabre challenge yet has the final three guests attend their own funeral - they build their own coffins before having to lie in them. Later, Val spins a spine-tingling treatment that leaves two lives cliffhanging in the balance.
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