The Traitors feels fresh. These days, reality TV concepts are overdone, rehashed and reformatted.
has quickly become a pop culture talking point. Combining an Agatha Christie-style murder mystery with a competition pinned in mind games and psychological manipulation, Claudia Winkleman welcomes 22 ordinary British contestants to an eerie Ardross Castle in the Scottish Highlands.
The premise? A handful of these seemingly innocent bunch are selected as “traitors”, the sly individuals responsible for strategically killing off – metaphorically – an unfortunate member of the group each night. Competing in challenges akin to an adult version of CBBC’s, the contestants need to build the pot of money – the maximum final amount resting at £120,000 – for the winner to take home.But that’s not all.
Psychologically, it makes for exciting viewing. There’s an odd joy in watching those who we know to be “faithfuls” accused of being a “traitor.” All it takes is one slightly off comment for suspicions to be roused: just one person voicing these concerns can be enough to trigger a bandwagon-type chain reaction, as we saw in the first ousting of 45-year-old accounts supervisor Nicky. If we didn’t know who the traitors were, perhaps we as an audience would fall for this, too.
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