The Traitors

Watching and enjoying it here too!

Great episodethis evening, really want Amanda to win!

Love this show, hoping for the Traitors to win.

Was this on tonight? Showing on tv schedule but didn't record for me.

I saw the trailers for this last month and thought it looked awful.

I then read lots of positive reviews over Christmas and decided to give it a go.

Binge watched it last weekend. It was great! Very, very addictive and lots of fun.

All the episode are on YouTube for anyone who doesn't have access to the BBC iPlayer.

Where on YouTube might one find it?

Anybody watched the Australian version? I watched it over the past few days.

I think it's just as good as the UK version.

The contestants are more ruthless and there's less crying and faux drama (which is a good thing).

But Claudia is a better host than the Australian guy.

Not the uk version, or the aus version, but the irish version.

The US one aired last week. It was filmed in the same location as the UK one, and so has a lot of the same challenges.

It streamed on Peacock, so all episodes are out (just 10). A mixture of reality stars (Survivor, BB etc.) and regular Americans.

I've only watched a couple, but seems great so far. Alan Cumming is the host and he is fantastic. 🙂

I must disagree, can't take to Cummins at all.

Hes too much for me 😂

I definitely much prefer Claudia as a host. Alan was okay, but Claudia just has that mix of joyful fun that could turn to chaotic energy at any moment.

Watched all of the US Traitors. Didn't enjoy it as much as the UK version. I think having half the contestants be people from other US reality shows tips the balance of the show in an unfair way, because there's too much focus on them as "characters", they know how to play some things up to get more attention on them, and I doubt half of them even needed the money or they were probably getting paid a decent sum just for being on the show anyway, especially with having to travel from the US to Scotland for a few weeks. It meant even by the end, I barely felt like I knew the remaining faithfuls because there had been so little focus on them during the previous episodes.

The editing of the show also annoyed me, as almost every episode of the UK version ended at night with the cliffhanger of who did the Traitors murder, whereas the US version just ends on the most dramatic point of that evening, even during or just after the Roundtable.

It was okay, and I probably would have liked it more if I hadn't already seen the UK version, but the UK version was just so damn good that the US version couldn't live up to it.

‘The Traitors’ Season 2 Greenlit By BBC

https://deadline.com/2023/02/the-traitors-renewed-for-second-season-by-bbc-studio-lambert-claudia-winkleman-1235272817/

They also need to re-jig things like how people come down for breakfast in the morning and seeing who got murdered. They've usually kept it to the three possible victims being the last to come in, before it's revealed to both the faithfuls and the audience who was murdered. But it means the people who are never one of the last ones to walk in are likely Traitors. I think the only times a Traitor has been one of the last 2 to walk in, there's been a twist and no-one was murdered.

People will be a lot more wise to things done for production/editing for the benefit of the audience at home, and how that might translate to who the traitors might be.

Best of all of them in my opinion. It was the first to be released so maybe that swayed my personal liking for it

The Traitors Australia on BBC 3 on 9th of July 2023

If people aren't completely burned out by multiple Traitors series, there are two more to check out.

Traitors New Zealand finished a few weeks ago (9 episodes).

Traitors Canada is in progress (2 episodes in).

Both are a mixture of 'celebs' and regular people.

Downloaded. Can't post links, Jaffa. Against the charter.

For what it's worth, New Zealand is now my favourite series. I'm about half way through it, and it's a real ding dong battle between the faithful and the traitors.

It's also worth noting that the production values of the New Zealand version are phenomenal. It blows the UK and US versions out of the water. Great music, great scenery, the contestants are super smart and likeable, and the private segments to the camera are really well done. Paul Henry (the host) is a real character too. 🙂

Really recommend it if you can find it.

And that's it. If anyone is wondering, they NAILED the landing. Fantastic finale, couldn't fault it.

Best Traitors series by a long way.

Was definitely a good finale, at least different (crap prize money though)

The mix of celebs is, for me, what killed the US Traitors, as the celebs knew how to play up to the cameras and get the most attention. The cast for The Traitors US S2 has been announced and is all celebs (and John Bercow for some bizarre reason). Four of them are "Real Housewives".

That said, I'd have more faith in non-US celebs to actually play the game properly and act like actual humans.

January start for 2nd series on BBC