S03.E06: A Dysfunctional Family

[AntFTW]

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With tensions high, the Traitors must still work together; two dangerous Faithfuls hatch a plan.

Air date: January 30, 2025

[Thalia]

And suddenly I remember why Derrick is one my least favorite BB winners.  

But I'm loving the dissension between the traitors.  

ETA can two traitors murder another traitor in the Turret?  

Edited Friday at 03:09 AM by Thalia

[janeyjay]

I have never cackled at a reality show as much as I did tonight -- especially while watching that roundtable. And that turret cabal defined messy. PS: Tom Sandoval is a Moron with a capital M but damn if he's not entertaining.

[DEL901]

Boston Rob needs to sit back and let Danielle and Carolyn implode.   Then he can help lead the charge to get rid of a traitor, hopefully Danielle.  

And Wes is such an idiot. Between his boasts about being the most successful reality show competitor there and threatening anyone who voted for him, he got himself out because they were at the point of just wanting him gone, regardless of his Traitor status.

Edited Friday at 03:21 AM by DEL901

[choclatechip45]

Yeah Britney is not good at strategy games

[AntFTW]

1 hour ago, DEL901 said:

Boston Rob needs to sit back and let Danielle and Carolyn implode.   Then he can help lead the charge to get rid of a traitor, hopefully Danielle.  

Rob was me in that turret. Mouth open, jaw dropped, just looking back and forth between Carolyn and Danielle. If there was ever a time to sit back and shut up, that was it.

I'm also hoping he helps get rid of Danielle. 👀

[Quilt Fairy]

On the mission, were Rob, Carolyn and Danielle split up so that they know who has the 3 shields?  I forget what happens if they try to murder someone with a shield. 

[Rodney]

2 hours ago, Quilt Fairy said:

On the mission, were Rob, Carolyn and Danielle split up so that they know who has the 3 shields?  I forget what happens if they try to murder someone with a shield. 

Then no murder takes place.

[NeenerNeener]

So it looks like I wasn't the only one that watched the Australian version; it's possible Boston Rob did too. The traitors were busy taking each other out; I'd never seen that in the US or UK versions before. It made for a more interesting game, at least in my opinion. It's a shame that the Australian version was canceled after that show.

[sugarbaker design]

8 hours ago, Quilt Fairy said:

On the mission, were Rob, Carolyn and Danielle split up so that they know who has the 3 shields?  I forget what happens if they try to murder someone with a shield. 

Carolyn and Danielle were on the same team.

[meep.meep]

I was really surprised they murdered Bob Harper, he seemed like someone who gets a free ride to the end.

There are people who never get mentioned - why not go for one of those?  Sandoval, Effron, Sam, Ivar up until this episode, a bunch of the women who I can't even tell apart.  They've all drunk the Boston Rob koolaid though.

[fishcakes]

Tom eating like a feral dog was my favorite scene.

[MerBearHou]

4 hours ago, fishcakes said:

Tom eating like a feral dog was my favorite scene.

Agreed -- that cracked me up!  Just standing up wolfing down food from his plate on the table and all by himself.  I don't know him (have certainly heard about the scandal) but what a character.

It kind of boggles me that Sam is on this show -- what a non-entity he is here.

Edited Friday at 10:02 PM by MerBearHou

[ladle1]

17 hours ago, janeyjay said:

I have never cackled at a reality show as much as I did tonight -- especially while watching that roundtable. And that turret cabal defined messy. PS: Tom Sandoval is a Moron with a capital M but damn if he's not entertaining.

The WTF look on Rob’s face while Carolyn and Danielle were going after each other in the turret had me ROLLING. 
 

I just love this show. 

[ladle1]

I haven’t watched the international iterations of this show, so maybe it’s come up there… what happens if the vote really is even and they have to “go to a tie”? 

[AntFTW]

15 minutes ago, ladle1 said:

I haven’t watched the international iterations of this show, so maybe it’s come up there… what happens if the vote really is even and they have to “go to a tie”? 

They revote for only the two people that got the most votes.

[MicheleinPhilly]

Good lord, these people are dumb. I can't with any of them. 

I feel like they have to murder someone who voted for Wes but unfortunately for Rob (fortunately for the viewers) it will mean one less ass-licker on his side. My vote is for Dylan. Even at breakfast, the way he had his arm draped across the back of Rob's chair. 🤮

Carolyn and Danielle are both fucking nuts. Again, I can't with these people. 🙄

I did laugh loudly when Derrick or Wes or whomever it was shut down Tom's "theory" about Dolores right from the jump at the Roundtable. They didn't even pretend to care to entertain his cokehead rambling. 

[Salacious Kitty]

Tom is an idiot. It's hilarious that no one listens to him. 

[AntFTW]

1 hour ago, Salacious Kitty said:

Tom is an idiot. It's hilarious that no one listens to him. 

One day, he's gonna be right with dumbest theory and they're gonna completely ignore him. That would be hilarious to watch. 😂

[zenithwit]

This has got to be the messiest group of Traitors yet.  There are way too many "gamers" in the turret this season.  Danielle is strategizing so much that she is over-strategizing.  Boston Rob hasn't learned the last season's lesson from Dan Gheesling that as traitor, you can't openly target people who are on to you (unlike in Big Brother and Survivor).  But I guess there are enough dum dum faithfuls who believe Boston Rob that he might skirt by.

If this season ends up like season 2 of Traitors Australia, I will be sorely disappointed (although that season did have the one of the best endings out of almost all the Traitors seasons).

[snarts]

Wes is such a tool. He practically voted himself off by threatening everyone. 

Not to mention, he's nowhere near the winningest winner of all time. He's not even in the top 3 for Real World/Road Rules Challengers, let alone the big dollar winners from Survivor/Big Brother. 

Man, is Sandoval dumber than a box of rocks. Does he have a severe head cold? I don't remember him being such a mouth breather. 

[Ivana Tinkle]

Shallow rant: Dolores' giant eye sockets and jutting cheek bones remind me of Cruella de Vil; she's genuinely painful to look at.

On the flip side, Ciara might be one of the prettiest people I have ever seen and I may have a wee girl crush on her.

I still maintain that Boston Rob isn't that great a manipulator, but, like with Derrick is his season, these people are all too stupid to live. For fuck's sake Wes, Rob was basically toast and then you go and THREATEN THOSE WHO CALLED YOU OUT?? Even though I suspect he was being tongue-in-cheek, he has to know these people are morons who wouldn't understand sarcasm if it bit them in the ass so that was a truly fatal move on his part.

[Rae Spellman]

9 hours ago, MicheleinPhilly said:

I feel like they have to murder someone who voted for Wes

Since Rob is on borrowed time it might be better for him to take out Derrick or someone else who voted for him. If Danielle votes for Carolyn at the next round table and Carolyn manages to get a lot of votes for Danielle, it could buy Rob another week. Someone could strongly suspect him but stay on his side another round in the hopes of getting recruited. Then they could vote with the group to get him out the following week. Or the show could have a week with no banishment to buy another week of Rob on our screens. 

[Quilt Fairy]

Who ended up with the shields?  I know Carolyn was fighting someone for one of them but I FFed through a lot of that. 

[Rae Spellman]

2 minutes ago, Quilt Fairy said:

Who ended up with the shields? 

Carolyn, Chrishell, and Dylan.

[MicheleinPhilly]

Oh crap. So at least 1 more week of Dylan’s everlasting love and devotion? 🙄

I hope they go for Britney because 1. Every time someone says her name, I assume they’re talking about Sam’s ex and 2. She’s annoying. Why was she going so hard at Derrick after the roundtable with “Wes this”, “Wes that”? He just told you he was a Faithful, admit you messed up, and move on. 

[SourK]

I respect Carolyn for not being two-faced and just telling Danielle they're not allies anymore. It might not be good for her game, but I like that she's not afraid for things to feel uncomfortable.

Rob can cover his face and be aghast if he wants to, but maybe the lesson is not, "My teammates are terrible," so much as "I should have gotten the lay of the land more, before I made a big move."

On 1/30/2025 at 10:19 PM, DEL901 said:

And Wes is such an idiot. Between his boasts about being the most successful reality show competitor there and threatening anyone who voted for him, he got himself out because they were at the point of just wanting him gone, regardless of his Traitor status.

Normally I think players should focus on voting for people they actually think are Traitors but, this early in the game, I fully support voting someone off just because they're making the show feel unpleasant. You don't have to deal with that every day for the rest of the game.

In the last Traitors Canada season, there was literally one person who voted for someone and said, "I don't want you to be on the show," which was hilariously honest. And I feel like that is the sentiment here.

21 hours ago, MicheleinPhilly said:

I did laugh loudly when Derrick or Wes or whomever it was shut down Tom's "theory" about Dolores right from the jump at the Roundtable.

I feel like they had the same reaction to Carolyn, and I wonder about what that will mean for Carolyn's game. Because, she's not in a position where she can do a Boston Rob and come to the table and convince everybody to vote with her, but she is in a position where she sort of looks more Faithful, because, when people listen to her, they're not saying, "Here's a Traitor trying to shank another Traitor," they're saying, "Here's Carolyn going off about some person who hurt her feelings -- let's focus on something else."

17 hours ago, zenithwit said:

This has got to be the messiest group of Traitors yet.  There are way too many "gamers" in the turret this season.  Danielle is strategizing so much that she is over-strategizing.  Boston Rob hasn't learned the last season's lesson from Dan Gheesling that as traitor, you can't openly target people who are on to you (unlike in Big Brother and Survivor).

I agree with this. I think, on Survivor, your motivation for doing whatever you're doing is assumed -- it's because you want to stay in the game as long as possible. But on The Traitors, your motivation is the whole thing that people are supposed to be questioning.

Almost against my will, I'm kind of interested to see how Rob plays this. But I don't think there's any way he can retaliate against Danielle for voting for him right now.

17 hours ago, snarts said:

Wes is such a tool. He practically voted himself off by threatening everyone. 

Not to mention, he's nowhere near the winningest winner of all time.

I have never understood the people who lose a game show and then get up and say, "What you don't realize is that I should have won this game show, because I'm superior to you." WTF.

[ElleBee]

2 minutes ago, SourK said:

I have never understood the people who lose a game show and then get up and say, "What you don't realize is that I should have won this game show, because I'm superior to you." WTF.

Especially when the person you're feeling superior to is still in the game, and you're not. Wes should have spent less time aggressively spouting off on ego-fueled rants and more time figuring out why people seem willing to keep Rob in the game, despite either strongly suspecting he's a traitor and/or knowing he's a threat.

[janeyjay]

19 hours ago, zenithwit said:

If this season ends up like season 2 of Traitors Australia, I will be sorely disappointed (although that season did have the one of the best endings out of almost all the Traitors seasons).

After the end of Traitors Australia season 2, I think I sat with my mouth open in shock for at least a minute and then I laughed so hard it hurt.