Traitors '25 Starts 1/1/25 8pm

[Plumdaff]

The first series of Australia Traitors is a masterclass in how production couldn't have asked for a better bunch of absolute car-crashes in human form. Series two is why the network didn't ask for a series three.

Season 2 did have one cracker of an ending.

 

[Lotte]

This programme has passed me and Ms 747 by. Neither of us fancy it but obviously loads of people really rate it.

Tell me why it’s good in a couple of lines please?

The tasks are fun to watch, but the real appeal is the group dynamics and how everyone reacts to each other. And yes, people get accused of being traitors for the dumbest of reasons, like the woman in the first series who didn't raise her glass. Because she has one hand. Hardly her fault.

 

[Voley]

And yes, people get accused of being traitors for the dumbest of reasons, like the woman in the first series who didn't raise her glass. Because she has one hand. Hardly her fault.

Just the one hand?!

That ... is ... TRAITOR BEHAVIOUR!

 

[Biddlybee]

I watched both episodes last night and now fuming at myself.

Why?

I did too

 

[May Kasahara]

Just the one hand?!

That ... is ... TRAITOR BEHAVIOUR!

Classic traiting

 

[Voley]

Why?

Guilt?

That ... is TRAITOR BEHAVIOUR!

 

[danny la rouge]

This programme has passed me and Ms 747 by. Neither of us fancy it but obviously loads of people really rate it.

Tell me why it’s good in a couple of lines please?

I love the totally irrelevant reasons that people pick to decide who is a Traitor. Things that happened outside the programme and therefore had nothing to do with the production team’s choice of the Traitor team: they’re boyfriend and girlfriend; “I don’t believe she works in a supermarket”. Or even funnier “I am psychic and never wrong”. Usually the choices are totally random, unless a Traitor gives themselves away. Which two of them this time seem determined to do.

Just give it a go. Make cups of tea during the tasks though. They’re not the good bits.

 

[Looby]

Me and Mr Looby talked about how we’d fare.

He thinks I’d be a disaster as a traitor but would be a good faithful as I get on with people and would be great at sniffing out traitors.

I’d also love the social aspect.

He, OTOH, would love the game and in some ways would be a good traitor but would hate the social stuff. Even if he was a faithful people would be suspicious of him because he’s quiet, struggles in a group and can’t do small talk or bullshit.

This show could be used in ND diagnostics.

 

[Voley]

I love Claudia's cape.

That's a better word for it than we came up with. Mrs V went for poncho. I was somewhat wider of the mark with shroud.

 

[PR1Berske]

Me and Mr Looby talked about how we’d fare.

He thinks I’d be a disaster as a traitor but would be a good faithful as I get on with people and would be great at sniffing out traitors.

I’d also love the social aspect.

He, OTOH, would love the game and in some ways would be a good traitor but would hate the social stuff. Even if he was a faithful people would be suspicious of him because he’s quiet, struggles in a group and can’t do small talk or bullshit.

This show could be used in ND diagnostics.

I'd be awful in either role. I can imagine just blurting out something straight away. The current Mr Berske says that this guilt complex would kick in from the start.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

I watched both episodes last night and now fuming at myself.
I love Claudia's cape.

Two episodes? Thought it was just the hour opener?

 

[Spymaster]

Me and Mr Looby talked about how we’d fare.

He thinks I’d be a disaster as a traitor but would be a good faithful as I get on with people and would be great at sniffing out traitors.

I’d also love the social aspect.

He, OTOH, would love the game and in some ways would be a good traitor but would hate the social stuff. Even if he was a faithful people would be suspicious of him because he’s quiet, struggles in a group and can’t do small talk or bullshit.

This show could be used in ND diagnostics.

I reckon I could do a decent job of being the 'grey man' who nobody really notices for ages, and that would be an asset for either role.

I'd be shit at the round table though and probably get too aggressive if I got accused of being a traitor.

 

[PR1Berske]

Two episodes? Thought it was just the hour opener?

Second is on iPlayer. Wikipedia article updated on that basis so tread carefully.

 

[danny la rouge]

I reckon I could do a decent job of being the 'grey man' who nobody really notices for ages, and that would be an asset for either role.

I'd be shit at the round table though and probably get too aggressive if I got accused of being a traitor.

You’d be a great Traitor. You’re a Cop.

 

[Spymaster]

You’d be a great Traitor. You’re a Cop

Cover blown.

Again.

 

[Lotte]

I'm autistic and I'd be a shit traitor because I'm a really bad liar. I'd just give everyone away. My stepsister, on the other hand, would be brilliant. She's tiny and cute, so nobody would suspect her, and she plays a mean game of Cluedo. My brother would also be a decent traitor because he's a good listener, he'd be good at getting people to trust him, and he's a more under-the-radar type.

 

[Looby]

I reckon I could do a decent job of being the 'grey man' who nobody really notices for ages, and that would be an asset for either role.

I'd be shit at the round table though and probably get too aggressive if I got accused of being a traitor.

I’d just cry.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

[Only watched ep.1 so apols if any of this comes up in ep.2]

I'm intrigued by Army Barbie (haven't got everyone's name yet, so using her own nickname). Sure, it's a great cover for the early social interactions - pretend to be superficial, inoffensive, be pretty - but she must know it's going to come out when she rolls up her sleeves and is more than a bit handy at physical tasks.

"Oh yeah, I'm ex-army but pretended to be something else so I could sit back and weigh you all up" is such... <dramatic pause> Traitor Behaviour to those with sod all else to go on.

As for the not-Welsh-Welsh lass, oh dear.

 

[Plumdaff]

I'm terrible for talking too much to mask nerves which would immediately blow my cover as a traitor and place me under suspicion as a faithful. I'd be awful at this game.

 

[Lotte]

IRL Ino Yamanaka from Naruto aka Leanne will ace the physical tasks like Jonny did last year.

My other problem is a lack of confidence, and if you're quiet, people suspect you (Meg last season being an example, and Jaz would have been taken more seriously if he'd been more forthcoming).

As a reminder of who's who:
- Alex: guy with tats and piercings (is he trans btw?)
- Alexander: posh diplomat with intense eyes, left the train
- Anna: Irish swimming teacher, a bit quirky
- Armani: bad sister
- Charlotte: hippy pretending to be Welsh, actually from London
- Dan: autistic Scouse guy
- Elen: actual Welsh person and translator/interpreter
- Fozia: no-nonsense Brummie Muslim, could see her teaming up with Linda, left the train
- Francesca: interior designer, orange suit with shorts, has Mumsnetter energy
- Freddie: one of the babies of the series, cute little politics student, gives off Mollie vibes
- Jack: Yorkshireman with mullet, left the train
- Jake: don't remember much about him except he thought Linda was a traitor because she looked at Claudia when Claudia said 'traitors', from Barrow-in-Furness
- Joe: teacher, glasses, reminds me a bit of a guy I fancied at school
- Kasim: cute doctor, only Asian guy
- Keith: window cleaner, he's the oldest bloke, reminds me a bit of Miles but straight
- Leanne: Soldier Barbie
- Leon: Midlander, reminds me a bit of Divock Origi
- Linda: oldest woman, opera singer, also has Mumsnetter energy
- Lisa: vicar and mystery novel appreciator (unsurprisingly, she likes Father Brown)
- Livi: beautician, lip filler, has one eye
- Maia: good sister
- Minah: Scouse woman, almost certainly a Liverpool fan because no Everton fan is that perky
- Nathan: cynical bald guy
- Tyler: a bit like Jack Grealish, but from Leicester
- Yin: Chinese, communications person, smug

 

[Saffy]

Me and Mr Looby talked about how we’d fare.

He thinks I’d be a disaster as a traitor but would be a good faithful as I get on with people and would be great at sniffing out traitors.

I’d also love the social aspect.

He, OTOH, would love the game and in some ways would be a good traitor but would hate the social stuff. Even if he was a faithful people would be suspicious of him because he’s quiet, struggles in a group and can’t do small talk or bullshit.

This show could be used in ND diagnostics.

I think I'd have to be a traitor because you're in control of the game but I'm not sure I'd be very good. I'm a classic oversharer.

I'd be a better faithful because I love chatting to people but I don't miss anything. My kids call me 'FBI Mum'
If people thought I was a traitor, I'd be really upset and cry and probably get voted off.

 

[marshall]

If I was a faithful, I think I'd assume that one of the sisters HAD to be a traitor.

Surely logical from a TV narrative POV.

 

[Voley]

- Leon: Midlander, reminds me a bit of Divock Origi
- Minah: Scouse woman, almost certainly a Liverpool fan because no Everton fan is that perky
- Tyler: a bit like Jack Grealish, but from Leicester

I'm going to try and attribute football references to all the contestants from now on.

 

[moomoo]

I was so happy when Yin died. As soon as anyone comes out with the sort of pretentious bollocks she came out with (I’ve got a phd in a load of bollocks and aren’t I so smart don’t you know?) it makes me want to kill them myself.

What was it again? Communication? What a crock of shit

 

[Numbers]

I was so happy when Yin died. As soon as anyone comes out with the sort of pretentious bollocks she came out with (I’ve got a phd in a load of bollocks and aren’t I so smart don’t you know?) it makes me want to kill them myself.

What was it again? Communication? What a crock of shit

She didn’t have enough social credit.

 

[Numbers]

Armani ain’t gonna last long.

 

[Lotte]

I'm going to try and attribute football references to all the contestants from now on.

For non-football fans, Tyler is basically like a very large puppy.

Armani is dead meat. She might be even worse than Ash.

 

[souljacker]

There's a lot of very annoying people in this years. Lots of clapping, screaming and putting your head in your hands when anything happens. I don't think I like anyone yet.

I'm also in the very small minority of people who think Claudia Winkelman is an absolute bellend.

 

[Numbers]

I'm also in the very small minority of people who think Claudia Winkelman is an absolute bellend.

I feel the same about Grace Dent.

 

[souljacker]

I feel the same about Grace Dent.

She's a bellend with brains though.