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In addition to this, we are taking about Peppermint's perception of the events and all the emotions that it triggers within her and all of trauma that she may have experienced in her past because she was 'different.' Peppermint is talking about how she felt, and all of the things it reminded her of. People were grasping at straws and will take any little thing to single someone out. It's the nature of the game and the show. People will take one small and insignificant thing and blow it up. It doesn't even have to make sense. If the subject all of that negative attention can't make sense of why they are getting all of that negative attention, it doesn't seem like a leap for them to think 'it's like being in high school all over again when [XYZ] happened and/or I was bullied because I was different, and I recognize that it's happening again to me now in this game.'

They left Sheree on the cutting room floor.

Based on all the interviews I've listened to about the season, it seems like CT made the effort to be cool and have relationships with everyone, especially the ladies on the show. It's been said that he would greet each of them individually every morning, check on them, and always make sure they were all good. Watching the show, you wouldn't know any of that.

So how much of this cast list is bullshit? This is a banger of cast list and seems too good to be true. 🤔 https://stopbeingpolite.com/2024/03/08/challenge-season-40-official-cast/

I think the fear is reasonable. I didn't think his explanation made much sense when I first heard it. He says that he didn't see a path to winning with Phaedra in the game. My first thought upon hearing that is that there doesn't have to be only one winner. Two traitors can win the game. For Dan to win, it wasn't necessary for Phaedra to leave. I didn't quite understand why he thought that Phaedra needed to go for him to win. Also, considering that he had so much heat on him, he needed to focus on surviving for the day rather than the finish line. Step #1 is survive. Step #2 is win. His explanation seemed to be geared toward step #2 over step #1.

From listening to all the interviews I've heard with the cast, it seemed like nearly everyone was a suspect at some point. The castmembers are allowed to have notebooks or journals, and a few people have said that they're list of "possibles" was an ever-revolving door of people early on in the game. I remember one interview from Sandra where she mentioned that for a split-second, she wrote down Sheree's name as a possible traitor. If that's the case, she saw something in Sheree that we didn't see in the show. Basically, she was saying that people were picking up on any random thing to catch a traitor, even "if a person sneezed the wrong way." I imagine everyone was in someone's "could be?" column at some point for any random reason, especially early in the show. For example, Janelle thought Larsa could have been a traitor because she proposed a toast for Marcus. They were grasping at straws, trying to create some rationale out of nothing.

With regard to MJ, yes. It seems she was genuinely hunting for traitors. For CT and Trishelle, I think it was a mixed bag. I feel like CT went with the numbers when it was convenient. With Trishelle, I think her game may have been a little different if her alliance wasn’t getting wiped out everyday. I think once her entire alliance put themselves out there and decided to isolate themselves (with a minority of numbers), Trishelle didn’t have much of a choice but to actually try to get out people she thought were traitors because she was vulnerable every time. Trishelle couldn’t coast with numbers like the Bravo people. She had to try everything she could because she was at risk of being voted out or murdered every time. I think MJ had the best of both worlds. People believed she was a faithful and they considered her to be within the Bravo clique. People knew voting for MJ would have been a wasted banishment and she was within the Bravo clique so I believe she had some amount of protection from murder with Phaedra being a traitor. That allowed her to seemingly coast, be a little rogue and have no consequences for a stray vote. That makes sense. That was around the end of CT’s “meathead” era. His first win was season 24.

I listened to another interview with Sandra, and she says that Trishelle had previously expressed some suspicions about CT being a traitor. Clearly, we never see that on the show until the very end. In this interview, Sandra also touched on MJ. She mentioned that MJ was kind of a rogue player and always did her own thing. I think we see that from time to time in the show. For Sandra, self-preservation takes precedence over finding a traitor and she demonstrates that when she breaks down the numbers with the billiards balls, and she’s telling the group that the traitors in “the Leftovers”, if any, need to also control the turret just as they all need to control the round table. Sandra also tells people that they can’t allow MJ to spend too much time with the Peter Pals or talk to them too much because MJ was always willing to hear people out and consider voting with them, rather than playing for preservation of the alliance.

I take CT at his word when he says there’s no one else he’d rather share the prize with than Trishelle. I don’t believe anyone actually thought MJ was a traitor. I actually find it pretty funny that MJ was voted out simply because she could be voted out. It makes me wonder what would have happened if they kept stalemating. I imagine you stopped watching a while ago. He’s won five Challenges.

I think about Dan's "fear" of going to the end with other traitors. I want to say it doesn't make sense but on the other end, the rules and pattern of the game can change. It seems like a traitor would always need to bring another traitor as a sacrificial lamb that they can throw under the bus at the final roundtable or at the "Fire of Truth." In this season, there was a murder and then a final roundtable. The murder clearly indicates there is still a traitor in the game when they're at the final roundtable. The faithfuls need to feel like they got the final traitor. If they don't get that traitor at the final roundtable, then they're clearly bringing a traitor to the end, the "Fire of Truth." I rewatched Season 1, and it was a little tricky because the remaining traitors didn't murder anyone at that final meeting in the turret. The group had a roundtable and banished a traitor, then the traitors met in the turret but there was no murder, and then the group did another roundtable to get down to four players. Because there was no murder before the final roundtable, I can see how that gave the illusion of there being no more traitors when you get to the end.

Dammit. I thought they were putting up the whole season. They released the first three episodes.

Yes, there were.

Did CT just try to pull a Johnny Bananas and purposefully vote out MJ to steal the prize money from her? only to have that backfire at first because Trishelle voted for him? All that MJ did just to get voted out in the end, and nobody actually thought she was a traitor... that's hilarious to me!

If Bergie's attempted murder was any indication, I think she could have. MJ would have known someone tried to murder her. She would have still gotten the "murder letter" from the Traitors because Bergie still got one, even though he had the shield. That's how Bergie knew that the traitors tried to murder him. Bergie still did the scene of him getting the letter from the traitors saying that he had been murdered. He did that and then went to the breakfast.

Everyone is reading Kate like an open book... except MJ.

Air date: March 7, 2024

Air date: March 7, 2024

Didn't Nicole cheat on her?

I'm still not sure how I feel about the mechanics of the game. It seems like luxury-Survivor with a game show at the end of it. Not quite sure how I feel about the concept, specifically the game show at the end of it.

I didn't watch it... but damn you're making me want to! 😂