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S03.E11: The Day of Reckoning Is Upon Us


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Danielle was whining that Britney screwed he over. She is the one who screwed Britney over. Britney had the choice to be a traitor or to be murdered. 
 

Dolores, clueless to the end. 
 

I love Alan’s outfits, but his one at the final looks like a bedazzled Snuggie. 
My brother, giver of horrible presents, gave me a Snuggie that fits all for Christmas one year. I’m short and the “arms” were too long for my legs

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1 hour ago, AntFTW said:

Well, this season the most boring season and it ended in the most boring way.

This season had the most dysfunctional group of traitors ever so it seems kind of unsurprising that a traitor didn't make it to the end. The traitors were playing against each other more than they were playing against the faithfuls.

I think the challenges and outfits were amped up, but production made a terrible choice with their traitor selection. There were so many grating personalities that I was actually cheering not having to see someone like Bob the Drag Queen or Danielle on my screen anymore more so than the Faithfuls managed to banish a traitor.

All in all, I'm glad Gabby made it to the end but Dolores had no business being there. What a shame that they murdered Dorinda first--she would have had many memorable moments throughout the season.

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Tag yourself -- I'm Ivar going, "I'm happy to go by myself," and hanging from a helicopter alone just to have a second's peace.

This was a nice ending, I guess, in that they all agreed to share the pot and no one was betrayed at the end. It was just also kind of boring.

I think Britney went after Dillon way too hard and with way too much conviction. A lot of Traitors do this -- they seem to think that, if they can make the best logical argument for why you should suspect somebody else, that will change people's minds -- but IMO it seems like changing people's minds is more about making them doubt that you're a Traitor because you're acting in the way they would expect a Faithful to act, and it seems really genuine.

I think she was possibly making a better argument by trying to tell them that Dillon would go for an individual win if he made it to the fire. It's easy to be Monday morning quarterback, but I think she might have done better if she came to the table and said, "I genuinely think we're all Faithful, and, because we have to vote someone out, I think we should vote for the person who won't do a team win."

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That was a very satisfying ending. First Danielle, then Brittney, with the over-acting and undue aggression. Goodbye! Farewell! Then I really thought the four were going to banish again, and get out Gabby or Dylan, which would have been a shame.

I really want Lala to put out a calendar with all her Traitors' outfits.

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I wonder how things would've played out if Danielle had chosen Dillon to be the final traitor.   Dillon and Ivar was pointing out that the final traitors had to be women.   I believe had Dillon been chosen, he probably would've made it through and gotten all the money.   Otherwise it wasn't that great of a finale.    

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I’ve seen every season of every Traitors show on Peacock (except for UK season 3 which just dropped) and always find it more satisfying when the faithfuls win without banishing more faithfuls at the final fire pit thingy.  Even though Delores was basically coasting and voting for all the wrong people 😂 I find her likable and she is one of my favorite Housewives.  I just found it impressive and heartwarming that the four of them trusted each other to the end (I can’t say I would have, in their shoes). So, good for them 🥂  

Now I am off to binge UK season 3 😊 

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God, what a snoozefest this was.

I'm fine with Gabby and Dylan winning, but Ivar and Dolores were such non-entities, it bugs me that they got a share. But again it just goes to show what a horrible game Danielle played. The 3 people she spent so much time and effort trying to protect, ended up screwing her in the end.  

I was side-eyeing Dylan at that final roundtable though when he was all up in his fee-fees that Britney was coming after him. Bitch, you just did the exact same thing to her. That's how this game works. Suck it up, Buttercup. 

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21 minutes ago, MicheleinPhilly said:

I was side-eyeing Dylan at that final roundtable though when he was all up in his fee-fees that Britney was coming after him. Bitch, you just did the exact same thing to her. That's how this game works. Suck it up, Buttercup. 

Right! He was so affronted that someone actually dared to come for him. It was not a good look at all. I haven't been as enamored with him as many seem to be but even I was taken aback by how bad his reaction was.

Heartwarming ending to an otherwise bad season. I feel like every season of every iteration of this game that I've watched either has a good season with a bad ending or a bad season with a good ending.

I really think they need to change something for next season. If they're unwilling to add an incentive for players to actually go after Traitors like they claim is the point of the game then they at least need to stop hiding the fact that the players have decided to play a different game in the editing.

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5 minutes ago, peachmangosteen said:

I really think they need to change something for next season. If they're unwilling to add an incentive for players to actually go after Traitors like they claim is the point of the game then they at least need to stop hiding the fact that the players have decided to play a different game in the editing.

I just think they need to do a regular people season. Enough with the reality tv drama. 

This is why I vastly prefer the UK version. Well that and Claudia. 

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With all the messiness in the turret, I thought this was a great season… up until this episode. Glad to see Danielle dumped on her overly dramatic ass,  not sad to see Britney follow her because her gameplay was lackluster at best, but the final four kumbaya was pretty anti-climactic.

Dylan and Gaby were my first and second choices to win, because they were pretty consistently savvy all season, but couldn’t they have scraped the Ivan and Delores barnacles off their hull first? Neither of them deserve a penny.  I was really hoping that those two would keep voting for each other all the way to the end, up to and including jumping into the fire pit together.

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6 hours ago, DEL901 said:

Funniest part of the finale…Danielle screwing over Britney. 

For me the funniest part was right before the helicopter challenge when Alan said, "break a leg!" and then got this disgusted look on his face like he was thinking, "I mean that literally. I hate you all."

 

3 hours ago, MicheleinPhilly said:

I was side-eyeing Dylan at that final roundtable though when he was all up in his fee-fees that Britney was coming after him. Bitch, you just did the exact same thing to her. That's how this game works. Suck it up, Buttercup. 

Yes! I've liked him all along, but he lost me with that, especially when he said it wasn't what she said, it was the way she was saying it, as if her making a thought-out argument was a form of aggression. I guess no one ever told him that he doesn't get to police the way women speak to him.

I found the outcome pretty dull. Four people, two of whom were completely clueless all season long and two who kept letting themselves get talked out of almost every good instinct they had, splitting the pot? Meh. I didn't love Britney but I wanted her to win just so whoever else was left could stand there gobsmacked, and also because Danielle would never get over a Britney win.

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The ending with this year's cast felt much more satisfying compared to last year's. I was worried that Dolores would end up with the red fire, but I was pleasantly surprised by the outcome. Dolores, it really took you until the end to realize that people lie in the game?  Regardless, I'm so happy there wasn't anyore drama at the end and everyone decided to end it when they did.

I can't imagine completing the helicopter challenge without getting sick.

At the round table, I didn't view Dylan any differently when Britney confronted him. I suspect Britney had been speaking for a while, and Dylan understandably got frustrated. He has every right to feel that way, just as others do when they are called out. Danielle was dumb to keep him in the game though. 

I also have a feeling that Danielle was suspected as a traitor for a while, much like Phaedra, so she wasn't fooling anyone.

And Britney was smart to be honest that Gabby was a faithful. I wonder if Danielle would have done the same and who she would have called as a seer.

I guess I'm easily entertained, I loved this season!

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Danielle and Carolyn were both idiots to keep Dylan for so long.  Too many faithful folllowed him too much.  And he was both of their undoing.

and Brit was an idiot for switching her vote for Dani.  Had she left it to chance, she and Dani could have gotten Dolo on their side against Dylan at the end.  Oh well, sucks to be them

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14 hours ago, Kiki777 said:

This is probably not likely, but it might be fun to have one special season where the traitors are not revealed to the audience, so everyone can kinda play along.

I would hate that. Plus how do you film the turret scenes. Even if they keep their hoods on, you can hear their voices. No fun without those turret scenes, which shows game play.

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14 hours ago, Writing Wrongs said:

I don't know why Britney didn't use her past with Danielle as a way to deflect Dylan's observation about Danielle's comment about getting screwed over by her again.

Ivar and Dolores didn't deserve to be at the end. They did nothing the whole game.

But they survived the whole game, so that is deserving IMO. Doesn't matter how they got there -- no one banished them and no one murdered them. 

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42 minutes ago, jackjill89 said:

But they survived the whole game, so that is deserving IMO. Doesn't matter how they got there -- no one banished them and no one murdered them. 

Yep. And since the game isn't actually about getting out Traitors it's sort of irrelevant that Dolores didn't vote for many of them.

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I think they should've murdered Dylan when they had the chance, or Danielle should've recruited Dylan. Either way, I was hoping Dolores would cause chaos at the circle of truth and one of them had gotten banished. I don't want a completely happy ending. I like the chaos. But Dylan and Gabby were pretty deserving players by the end. Ivar and Dolores, luckiest bastards in gaming history.

I'm annoyed though that Britney got banished based solely on her "attitude." Gabby made that point last round table -- a woman gets all feisty, and they turn on her. But then they did it again.

Even if Danielle had survived the vote between her and Ivar, I don't think she would've survived the final round. I think her plea to Dylan was too telling. But justice got served, and although I think she actually did play a good game, it was satisfying seeing her get banished. But just on the merits of Dylan being hurt by Britney standing up to him, I wanted him to be banished too. My reality TV grudges are petty and fun to nurse.

And finally, although I have loved Alan's outfits, that last one -- yer a wizard, Alan. Now take that garment back to Party City where it belongs!

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7 minutes ago, Rai said:

I'm annoyed though that Britney got banished based solely on her "attitude." Gabby made that point last round table -- a woman gets all feisty, and they turn on her. But then they did it again.

Eh, from my vantage point, Britney did it to herself. She should've defended herself without coming out guns blazing against her accuser. Going so hard after Dylan, it was obvious defensive deflection rather than actual suspicion.

There was a notable difference in body language between Dylan's near amusement at being accused vs. Britney's panicky accusations. Even Dolores & Ivar could see it. 

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On 3/8/2025 at 3:01 AM, Soapy Goddess said:

I would hate that. Plus how do you film the turret scenes. Even if they keep their hoods on, you can hear their voices. No fun without those turret scenes, which shows game play.

I agree on that actually, which is why I would just want to see only one season of the audience being in the dark on who the traitors are.  No turret scenes, no talking heads related to anyone’s personal strategy - just a ‘what if?’ season for all the viewers who wonder why they didn’t vote out so-and-so when it was so obvious to the viewers at home.  It would allow us to see everything through the eyes of a faithful and also make for a really fun rewatch once you know the truth (like The Sixth Sense)

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I’m trying to figure out why I loved this season (and every season!) so much, while others seemed to find it boring. And I think it’s because I don’t watch a lot of competition reality TV, so I’m watching this for the spectacle of the show rather than the game play. A Dolores/Sandoval feud, Gabby confusing the periodic table with the multiplication table, Alan doing high camp, and the narrative twists and turns were everything I needed in my life right now. 
 

I also kind of like that the monetary stakes are low, so nobody gets screwed out of a truly life-changing amount. The stakes being low is something I enjoy about (non-competition) reality TV in general! There’s something relaxing, in our dumpster-fire world, about the biggest drama being “Will Sutton invite Dorit to her fake fashion show?” With The Traitors, I get to watch a bunch of people who are made for reality TV (okay, plus Sam and Ivar) just being their interesting and ridiculous selves in a gorgeous setting. What’s not to love? 
 

However I can see how, if you’re looking for shrewd game play, a season like this might be frustrating. 

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3 hours ago, Kiki777 said:

No turret scenes, no talking heads related to anyone’s personal strategy ...

I was gonna say what would the talking heads even be then but they don't let us in on people's actual strategies in them now so it would be the same I guess lol.

2 hours ago, ladle1 said:

However I can see how, if you’re looking for shrewd game play, a season like this might be frustrating. 

I watch a lot of competitive reality but I still am like you, in it more for the drama and chaos than game play. I still think this season was pretty lackluster though because a) the format has already gotten stale imo and b) I'm deeply annoyed and frustrated by the fact that TPTB won't let us see what's actually going on instead of fabricating an entirely different game with the editing.

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40 minutes ago, peachmangosteen said:

I'm deeply annoyed and frustrated by the fact that TPTB won't let us see what's actually going on instead of fabricating an entirely different game with the editing.

I haven’t heard many good tidbits that weren’t shown, nothing that was good and juicy.

The offscreen drama last season was JUICY! This season… meh.

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I mean more in terms of the fact that they are still pretending (and it seems making the contestants pretend in their confessionals) that the game is about identifying and immediately banishing traitors when it isn't that at all and virtually no one actually plays that game lol.

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3 hours ago, ladle1 said:

ht now. 
 

I also kind of like that the monetary stakes are low, so nobody gets screwed out of a truly life-changing amount. The stakes being low is something I enjoy about (non-competition) reality TV in general

Yes! What I hated about the first season was that it mixed in reality stars with regular people who would find that money life changing, but at the end they lost to the remaining traitor who was a gamer who knew how to play.  It was hard to watch the true devastation on their faces 😞 

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4 hours ago, peachmangosteen said:

I watch a lot of competitive reality but I still am like you, in it more for the drama and chaos than game play. I still think this season was pretty lackluster though because a) the format has already gotten stale imo and b) I'm deeply annoyed and frustrated by the fact that TPTB won't let us see what's actually going on instead of fabricating an entirely different game with the editing.

I can totally understand that! That doesn't bother me, I think, because I don't go into reality TV expecting abject reality. They're not really getting murdered, and it's not really Alan's castle, either, but I just suspend disbelief and get swept away by the ridiculous spectacle of it all. The editors delivered some great twists and turns this season, and whether they were reflective of what was "actually" happening... *shrug*? They were still lots of fun for me! But I totally get where you're coming from and how it would be frustrating to watch if you want to see the actual game play. 

2 hours ago, Kiki777 said:

Yes! What I hated about the first season was that it mixed in reality stars with regular people who would find that money life changing, but at the end they lost to the remaining traitor who was a gamer who knew how to play.  It was hard to watch the true devastation on their faces 😞

Same! The first season finale was hard to watch for this reason. 

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