In the world of reality television, there are (basically) two types of shows. In the competitive reality show, everyone wins a bounty and has an outspoken reality show full of personal dramas (and perhaps dressed), in the hopes of being asked back to future seasons, Being asked is a prize. The ultimate distinction may be a democratic process older brother Contestants, VanderPump Rules And more single Co-stars aren't like that Technically They were allowed to vote for each other from the show.
The Peacock streaming service has a show where the two meet. It's called The traitor.
Located in a Scottish castle, hosted by Alan Cumming in the complete Lazzle Dazzle Regalia. The traitor pit A real housewife Against Survivors; Bachelor Himbo for Aggro Challenge Veterans; and very beautiful real estate agents like Christell Stause Selling the sunset Against a slightly less beautiful royal family, like the British Iver Mountbatten.
Like competitive reality TV, the end goal The traitor It's a prize. But like an outspoken reality show, everyone's secret goals of the game become a little more famous, The traitor He has been appointed to more projects, and perhaps future appearances on this and other shows too!
For reality TV fans, The traitor It is essentially an All-Star game and the best game on both reality TV. But like many reality shows, Love is blind In Bachelorthe more players know about the show, the less organic and alien it is. Now in the third season, The traitor It's still as interesting as ever, but it crashes in some way, unexpected.
The worst part of The traitor Gamers know what games are
Despite all of Alan Camming's outfits, The traitor Ultimately, it's a game about elimination where players vote for each other. There are 23 players this season. From their hosts, we chose some to play as traitors. Their job is to eliminate fellow contestants known as followers. Every night there is a roundtable vote where loyal people try to vote for traitors. And after each vote (called expulsion), the traitor secretly meets and votes in secret, faithful (called murder). The faithful hope that by the end of the season, they can vote for all the traitors and divide the prizes, and the traitors have enough discord to finish it for themselves and maintain the money. I want to soothe my doubts.
What's made The traitor Breakout hits are players throughout the first three seasons.
The show's ingenious casting department picked some of the best reality TV stars, including housewives, survivors and bachelor's degrees. – From the whole network and the type of show. In doing so, they created fun dynamics. Like in the second season, he got a cutthroat game player like Parvati Shallow, one of the most ruthless survivors of all time, and teamed up with the real housewife Phaedra Parks. To betray the rest of the castle, the brave star stars – then you set them against someone like Pete Weber in “Pilot.”
This season appears and ensures that each future installment continues, the competitive reality show contestants (or as they call “gamers”) are able to qualify for the same with other fellow gamers. Understand that you vote for soft alliances and implicit non-gamers. These are people who went very far Survivor, older brotherand challenge. They are used to practicing backstabs and mind games that come when your fellow cast members explicitly have the power to drive you away. It's only natural that they try to find a way to increase their odds. The traitorand certainly will be united to vote for fellow players, regardless of their traitor or loyal status. When they eliminate the amateurs, the thought appears to go, they can put their eyesight on each other.
The problem is that gamers continue to “know” the game, so they don't necessarily make fun TVs. It really shortens some arcs that could have been made for a great TV.
Two of the first traitors – older brotherWith Daniel Reyes SurvivorCarolyn Weger – I'm a gamer this season. Three more gamers were added to the show after the first episode – Survivor The flagship “Boston” Rob Mariano – is secretly chosen as another traitor, with former drag star Bob the Drag Queen closing out the four. (Drag Race Although it's a competitive show, RuPaul decides who will stay, not the other queen. ) Gamers are inevitable. And there's already much done in the fact that two of the first three eliminations of this season are real housewives and seven of the first 10 eliminations are non-gamers.
By voting for the player as follows: housewife Off – only New JerseyThe four Dolores Catania in the original cast increased the chances of winning for gamers, but took Dorindame Drey of being messy in the roundtable. The first medley killed is like Marvel's incredible Hulk. Anger, inevitably ahead Many Like alcohol, she was filled with rage, from a gentle, controlled, rich widow living in Berkshire, saying things like “The Eagles should not fly with pigeons” and “Face of Angels.” Transform into a bleach blonde barbarian., snake mouth.”
where Survivor and older brother Alumni include Strategic Savant, Medley and other non-gamer reality show stars, Selling the sunset And from Gabby Windy Bachelor, I'm good at making silly TV slowly. They know how to fight for the camera and turn Morehill into a mountain. They are the pinnacle of reality television personality. Remove many of them – Real Housewives in Dubai''Chanel Ayan! Potomac's Robyn Dixon! Dorinda! – Before they can make good TV, it's definitely a producer's nightmare, especially when you think that the show will air on Peacock, the streaming home of every real housewife fight ever aired .
If you want to see a show that is all strategies and scattered with pre-made alliances, they'll already be adjusting challengeone of the few TV shows that air during a rare period when MTV hasn't rerun it. no way. challenge It started as an all-star competition The real world and Road rules Alumni, and now it's a competitive reality farm team – Challenge Stalwarts Trishelle and CT won The traitor last year. Currently airing for 40 seasons, it is composed primarily of people who have continued their adult careers. challenge. They enter the new game with a creek and agreement already made against the first timer, with almost every season being decided by the Alliance, reducing the predictability of the game. It became a boring question of whether the dominant coalition of players would win the game.
Even though I say that The traitor You may have some guardrails on what gamers can achieve with their own prisoner-standing TV strategies. First of all, gamers really don't know what to do with Doofus, aka Tom Sandoval, who is at the heart of the Bravo adultery debate known as Scandoval. Sandoval is constantly sweating, always stunned around the castle like a possum, so there is no real concept of who is a traitor, but that is what makes him feel like someone close to him and a heart It doesn't prevent you from sharing all the theories that go in. Gamers cannot decipher whether Sandoval is an idiot, genius, loyal or traitor. It gives us hope that even the most seasoned game veterans can't fully understand the confused layers of stupidity that some outspoken reality TV stars have.
A blessing for this season? The traitor is pretty bad.
The aforementioned Gamer Leap threatens to take away stupid conflict television, but one thing has been to stop season 3 and make it interesting.
Before his elimination in Episode 4, Bob the Drag Queen appeared (thankfully) obsessed with the idea of making good TV – fighting Zac Efron's brother Dylan, While keeping all the girls true to him, giving some contestants a suspicious, chewing confession – rather than adopting a winning strategy.
Daniel, the mastermind older brothera portrait of a fantasy. She believes she is turning out excellent acting performances and tricking other players. Everyone around her thinks it's strange what's going on with Daniel. Her performance appearance at breakfast – when the assembled loyal and amazing traitors learn who was murdered the night before, evoke the worst community theater you've seen. If you realize you need to hide your body, Daniel is not the friend you call.
Boston Robb, a Survivor The winner continues to draw attention to himself by pointing his fingers at those he perceives as a threat, including fellow traitor Bob. Rob also has a serious atmosphere of Mafios, so you might think that even if you're not as familiar as a gamer, the guy with accents is coming straight out town It might be a bit questionable to talk about the game as if he were the target of an actual mob hit. His plot has won in the past few episodes, but Rob's overly aggressive and overly masshole play puts a huge target on his back.
Carolyn is the only traitor who plays a decent game, but that's because no one takes her seriously, and not even a fellow traitor. With her intense vocal flies, she laments all murders and justly recognizes that a sharp, loyal person will ultimately benefit the traitor. However, all her fellow traitors seem to be meant to “make confusion” rather than hearing Carolyn's healthy strategy. Some of this may be due to delivery. Like Pterodactyl, Carolyns tend to prefer cries and moans when they are excited or even at rest.
Heading towards Episode 7, Daniel attempts to eliminate Carolyn. Because in her wonderful Cespian mind, she needs to recruit new traitors to defeat the Boston Rob. Daniel could have played it easily and carefully along with a segment of voices of faithful people who don't trust Rob, but how does he exercise his acting chops? Meanwhile, Carolyn is currently chasing after Daniel, ruining Carolyn under radar gameplay. And while everyone in Cumming's Castle looks like he's suspicious of Boston Rob, he can't do anything as his two betrayal teammates are desperately horny to eliminate each other .
To worry about too many strategies, The traitor For now, it's become a thrilling comedy of failure. The only end of the fitting is that no one wins the prize. I know that rules in place ensure that someone wins at all times, but I don't even go past this fool's gag to figure out how to make this happen. I watch every second and cheer for them all.
