After his parents decide to move to a retirement home in Florida, professional gamer Quincy “Q” Johnson (Jerry Trainor) must find a way to raise 175,000 dollars to buy his family home. After hearing about a tournament for the game “Black Hole” with a grand prize of 175,500 dollars, Quincy enters the tournament, only to be faced with a new challenge. An equally skilled gamer, named Chris Saunders “Prodigy” (Jeanette McCurdy), has become the one block in Quincy’s plan, defeating him at every turn. Quincy then teams-up with his friend Wendell (Amir Talai), to try and find ways to stop Chris from entering the tournament.
Acting
Trainor's unhinged physical comedy carries every scene
Costume
Prodigy's gamer girl aesthetic is aggressively 2011
Production
Fake game 'Black Hole' is charmingly janky CGI
Director
Damon Santostefano
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Nickelodeon's attempt to capitalize on esports before esports was mainstream—'Black Hole' was basically a fictional Halo clone.
Released at peak iCarly fame, this exists purely because Sam and Spencer's chaotic energy couldn't be contained to one show.
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