The Traitors (UK) - General Discussion

[meep.meep]

Curse you and your spoilers!  I shall not read!

Is Peacock showing the second season now?

With the US season over, I still need my traitors fix!

[SoMuchTV]

1 hour ago, meep.meep said:

Curse you and your spoilers!  I shall not read!

Is Peacock showing the second season now?

With the US season over, I still need my traitors fix!

Yes, and there episode threads for the 3 that are available on Peacock so far. Unfortunately I doubt there will a mod able/available to move over the comments from this General thread. 

[meep.meep]

Fine by me.  I don't like being spoiled.

[Wickedeve]

🙀 I blazed right through this season and came right over here to see if there were any comments and...nope. It was sooooo good! Off to watch the next season.

[SoMuchTV]

12 hours ago, Wickedeve said:

🙀 I blazed right through this season and came right over here to see if there were any comments and...nope. It was sooooo good! Off to watch the next season.

Which season did you blaze through? S1 has quite a few comments earlier in this thread, and S2 has episode threads. Is there a S3 that hasn’t been released in the US yet?

[Wickedeve]

10 hours ago, SoMuchTV said:

Which season did you blaze through? S1 has quite a few comments earlier in this thread, and S2 has episode threads. Is there a S3 that hasn’t been released in the US yet?

Hah--excellent question. Turns out I'm just confused--and I somehow skipped over the first page. I'm off to muddle my way to the right place. Thank you so much!

And I only wish there was a season 3 UK right now, because I'm ready for it 😛

Edited April 17, 2024 by Wickedeve

[MerBearHou]

I am loving Traitors: UK and am watching a couple per night so binging in a week.  Almost to the finale -- I've been spoiled with the outcome but I'm ok with that.  Doesn't change my enjoyment and I'm also ok with the winner.  I sooooo prefer the "regular people" Traitors shows vs any types of so-called celebrities.  I watched 2 seasons of Traitors: US, but didn't get the same enjoyment (the seasons were fine, but not great IMO) due to the reality players on both seasons.  Once I finish UK, I'm off to AUS and NZ 🙂

Edited April 19, 2024 by MerBearHou

[anniebird]

I guess it's a colloquialism based on where's he's from, but it bothered me no end every time Harry said, "I voted for yourself, (insert name here.)"

[tv echo]

A Celebrity Edition Of The Traitors Is Coming To The BBC
By Olivia Emily   Aug 23, 2024
https://www.countryandtownhouse.com/culture/celebrity-the-traitors/ 

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Grab your cloaks, people: The Traitors is back. But this time, there are a few familiar faces playing the game. Yep, it’s official: a celebrity version of The Traitors is coming to the UK, with filming set to take place in 2025. Here’s when we will see it on the BBC.
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Celebrity The Traitors will star a cast of 22 players, though no news just yet on who they will be. With casting now underway, we expect a mixture of famous faces from reality TV, sport, daytime TV, comedy and soaps – but who knows who might fancy putting their wits to the test.
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Don’t worry: The Traitors series 3 and 4 are still set for broadcast starring ordinary Brits, with filming already complete on series 3. We expect The Traitors series 3 to kick off on British screens in January 2025.

Edited August 23, 2024 by tv echo

[AntFTW]

 

[Wee S]

It's back and so addictive already! Tbh at times it's been very uncomfortable to watch, particularly with

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How Joe treated Kas, "killing at night but saving lives during the day..." but boy did Kas get his comebacks in at the end! Harold Shipman indeed lol!

Honestly, the traitors appear to have had the easiest time so far, as the faithfuls are just not playing the game right- it's veered into personal attacks and they seem to have lost sight of the actual game which is to catch traitors.

Anyway, thankful for Claudia and all of her outfits. Roll on next Wednesday night.

[MicheleinPhilly]

This remains my favorite version. And you get 3 episodes a week which is further evidence of its superiority.

Spoilers for first 6 episodes:

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Linda is my favorite hot mess on tv. At that initial roundtable when Claudia said "Traitors" and Linda turned towards her, I thought perhaps the editing gremlins were at work, but no, she really did impersonate a meerkat. Props to Jake for catching it. And her performance at breakfast following Livi's murder had me falling off the couch, I was laughing so hard. I hope she stays until the end just because she is comedy gold. 

I was thrilled with Dan's banishment just because I found him to be a monumental dick. I may potentially get flamed for saying this but autism doesn't grant you a free pass to be outwardly rude and condescending. Just own up to the fact that you're an anti-social jackass. 

I hope Leon, Alexander, and Fozia never take up poker. Actually I do and I hope I get to play against them because I would clean them out. 

Overall this is a very emotionally fragile bunch and the hysterics over every little thing is just *chef's kiss*. I love it. 

 

[SourK]

I'm enjoying this season, too. The funniest thing to me is the things they zero in on and decide to pick at: Do you honestly expect us to believe you've gone your whole life without learning how to tie a boat off properly?? When we asked you what happened in the card game, why did you try to summarize the card game instead of telling us which card everyone played each turn??

And just, like, the looks of disbelief and disgust, and how weird and sus they think those things are.

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It was funny how ungracious everyone was about rescuing Alexander when literally all he did was try to help the group on day 1, get brought back to the game, and then be nice to everyone. And they're like, "Boo, I was hoping you died."

 

[MicheleinPhilly]

Spoilers for episode 7:

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Aw boo, I'll miss Linda and her Razzie-worthy acting.

I am hoping that the suspicion moves away from Minah as I would like to see her win the whole thing. As the numbers dwindle, it shouldn't be too hard for them to think about who has voted for Traitors at the Roundtable. Minah voted for both Armani and Linda whereas I don't think Frankie or Lisa or Charlotte has ever voted for the person eventually banished, let alone either of the Traitors. 

I'm not sure what Alexander's diplomatic duties were/are, but he sucks at it. Why are you always so shifty? But I was also yelling at all of them for standing around wanting the details of the death match when there was a time limit on the challenge. This group is not the sharpest. 

I'm disappointed that Fozia was murdered as she was a real firecracker. Her comment about Charlotte's Welsh accent on Uncloaked afterwards had me rolling. 

 

[MicheleinPhilly]

Spoilers for episodes 9 and 10:

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I thought the dinner party was lovely and wish we had gotten to know the players earlier on in the game. I'm not into milking sob stories for sympathy but I realized that I literally knew nothing about these people. 

Charlotte is diabolical. I'm a Minah fangirl so I'm bummed that she couldn't see it through to the end. If Charlotte manages to convince Freddie to murder Leanne, then I'll root wholeheartedly for her to win. But just as I don't like later arriving contestants to win, I don't like recruited traitors to win either. 

But really this whole group is so thick I can't really muster much enthusiasm for any of them to take the pot. Which also seems rather paltry in comparison to prior series. Don't get me wrong, if someone wants to give me 60K, I'm certainly not going to turn it down, but I feel like in the prior series, they got it up to at least 100K. 🤷‍♀️

 

[SourK]

Episode 11.

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Whoa. I don't know how Charlotte's going to get out of this one. Probably what happens next is just that the Faithful keep voting each other out or something.

I wonder if Freddie would have won the Seer power if he hadn't gotten voted out. I'm okay with the idea that people sometimes have to switch teams when they don't want to, but this seems like a rough way to go, just getting destroyed by Charlotte, and having the rest of the players facilitate that, not knowing that that's what's happening.

I can't put my finger on what it is, but something about Charlotte kind of bugs me? I've made peace with the idea that people who sign up for this game probably want to lie, so sometimes they bring some lies with them -- fine; she's fake-Welsh; whatever -- but, even beyond that, there is this weirdly inauthentic vibe when she's talking to the camera like she's trying to play a character.

On the other hand, now that people on the forums have pointed it out, I see how weird and sus Alexander seems all the time, but I was impressed by how smart he was this episode. Figuring out that Leanne could be lying about the shield, and also trying to help another Faithful win the challenge & stop the advantage from going to the Traitors.

I will laugh so hard if they get to the fire and vote him off anyway because they still think he's sus. I already laughed when they all kept saying he was either a Traitor or like, very, very, extremely, improbably unlucky and he was just nodding.

 

[MicheleinPhilly]

Episode 11 spoilers:

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I don't see how Charlotte gets out of this unscathed. At this late stage, I can't see Francesca keeping the news to herself and Claudia DID say she could do with the information what she wished. Why wouldn't she just spill the beans to everyone ensuring the Faithfuls win the pot? Of course, with how paranoid this group is, they probably think there are still 3 Traitors amongst them. Tell everyone, banish Charlotte, banish Alexander, and then Jake, Frankie, and Leanne cash in. 

Oh Freddie. You beautiful, sweet, TOTAL PLANK. The first time he brought up Minah's name at breakfast, I thought he had stepped in it because if I recall correctly, the conversation Leanne had with the others happened AFTER the roundtable. But then when he just doubled down at the actual roundtable and said that she told him "later that night at the bar." 🤣Although there was a part of me that assumed the Faithful would figure out a way to still screw that up. They aren't the brightest bulbs in the chandelier. 

 

[Wee S]

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The Final:

Okay. I know it's just a game but wow was Charlotte just so ruthless to Frankie both in the seer meeting and at breakfast the next day. If anything, that should have raised suspicion all round as it was a complete 180 to how she had been acting previously. It was like Wilf all over again fighting for his life in s1.

Sad for Frankie and Alexander that they were thrown under the bus but I'm also sad that main character syndrome Leanne won. Jake, I have no issues with but Leanne was just so self involved: no-one (especially Alexander) was allowed to suspect her, the constant "why am I still here?" (Because you are dense and helpful to the traitors) ...it should have been Minah!

 

[LakeGal]

I was reading that the UK viewers were not happy with the Seer twist.  They think it ruined the idea of the game and put both females at risk.  I wonder if other countries will pick up this twist.  I know some I have watched  do a dagger twist where the person that gets the dagger gets 2 votes.  

[MicheleinPhilly]

Spoilers for episode 12 (the finale):

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Ultimately I'm pleased with how the game played out. MOSTLY. I'm thrilled that the Faithfuls who got the win were miles better than the Faithfuls in Season 1. And I do think that Jake and Leanne were good players even though their constant paranoia and shifting theories often drove me batty. But it's easy to judge from the comfort of your couch when you know who the traitors are. 

Despite the fact that I don't think Frankie was an especially memorable or helpful player, I did feel REALLY badly for her. When she had that conversation with Leanne in the kitchen, I thought that they were basically pledging to go all the way together. I get why Jake and Leanne didn't want to risk it because they didn't know what to think following the Seer shenanigans, but I did feel badly for her when she was voted off. 

I didn't love the Seer twist but I also didn't hate it. If they do decide to use it in future seasons, I can't imagine people will be fighting for it so hard given the chaos it caused. 

Usually I do find myself rooting for The Traitors to win but there was something about Charlotte's behavior over the last episode that just rubbed me the wrong way and I cheered when she was banished. I know it's a game and she was playing a role, but there was something about the way she reacted with the tears and her overall demeaner that just made me think, "You're sick." Even though an episode ago, I thought she was brilliant. 🤣 Had it been Minah, I would have felt differently. 

Overall I thoroughly enjoyed this season and will miss it as the U.S. version is just total shite.