Traitors '25 Starts 1/1/25 8pm

[scifisam]

Is that the one who looks like Sarah Lancaster?

I think she looks like another Corrie alum, Sherrie Hewson.

My GF wants her to stay because she has cool clothes, and I can get behind that. They're unusual but they work. Good ad for her interior design business!

 

[danny la rouge]

No

She’s got an interior design business in Rye. I wondered if you’d been in her shop.

 

[scifisam]

As a first time viewer of this I’m enjoying it, but my fucking god, the soundtrack is bloody awful

My favourite was the one with the word come pronounced as comb.

It's the Beeb's way of saving on royalties so they can spend more on Claudia's clothes.

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

She was brilliant on the post analysis TV podcast though. Quire disappointed she got out so soon after hearing more from her.

Iirc the makers always throw in one person who claims they can "hack" the show and use their personal skillset to correctly find traitors. And they always get chucked off first. They would do better to keep it under their hats rather than show off so much.

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

As a first time viewer of this I’m enjoying it, but my fucking god, the soundtrack is bloody awful

Terrible covers of well known songs, but good for playing a personal game of guess that song (And then having a near breakdown when they piss all over a Bowie song).

 

[Looby]

Oh god, Armani is so cocky! “You both need to do more”. Minah is the only one playing it right!

Fucking hell, she’s delulu!

 

[Voley]

Lovely to see you back Agent Sparrow.

 

[PR1Berske]

Huge fan of the BBC website making the episode guide for the Traitors look like a logic puzzle from hell.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

I think she looks like another Corrie alum, Sherrie Hewson.

My GF wants her to stay because she has cool clothes, and I can get behind that. They're unusual but they work. Good ad for her interior design business!

Did you catch the first Uncloaked and Yin’s discussion of what clothing communicates about how a person wishes to present their personality/attributes/threat level, and resultantly how she brought 51kg of luggage to Scotland? It wasn’t exactly rocket science but I hadn’t thought about it before and t’was interesting. And made me smile as she said this next to the S2 sartorial mess who is Harry.

In not dissimilar fashion, my eldest asked how they can get changed appropriately at the castle after breakfast for missions/after missions for the evening if they’re staying elsewhere. It is probably as simple as having advance warning about the type of mission but I’m pleased she’s beginning to question the production of this sort of TV.

 

[PR1Berske]

Did you catch the first Uncloaked and Yin’s discussion of what clothing communicates about how a person wishes to present their personality/attributes/threat level, and resultantly how she brought 51kg of luggage to Scotland? It wasn’t exactly rocket science but I hadn’t thought about it before and t’was interesting. And made me smile as she said this next to the S2 sartorial mess who is Harry.

In not dissimilar fashion, my eldest asked how they can get changed appropriately at the castle after breakfast for missions/after missions for the evening if they’re staying elsewhere. It is probably as simple as having advance warning about the type of mission but I’m pleased she’s beginning to question the production of this sort of TV.

The logistics of filming an episode must be very complex, particularly after midnight (or is it "midnight") when at least three contestants are turned back from their luxurious hotel adjacent to Inverness Airport to film the turret sequences.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

The logistics of filming an episode must be very complex, particularly after midnight (or is it "midnight") when at least three contestants are turned back from their luxurious hotel adjacent to Inverness Airport to film the turret sequences.

Yes, we had that discussion too! And also about it being filmed approx half a year before being shown.

I have noticed these two episodes shown at 8pm haven’t had swearing in them. We have an open attitude to swearing anyway* but I’m wondering how much that will increase after it goes post watershed.

* “these are words”; “swearing has a neurological function”; “don’t say these things in front of grannies or teachers”

 

[moomoo]

Does it not just stay at 8pm on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday?

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Does it not just stay at 8pm on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday?

No, it moves to 9 from tonight.

 

[Voley]

Huge fan of the BBC website making the episode guide for the Traitors look like a logic puzzle from hell.

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I think they've done that for the benefit of anyone already missing the confusion of Xmas bin collections.

 

[savoloysam]

I feel that its lost its magic now. Most of the faithfuls play a game of pretending to not have a clue so they dont get targeted and thus its just a game of faithful vs faithful until its gets real at the end. Boring

 

[Voley]

So what do we think will happen tonight?

I think Armani has shot herself in the foot and is vulnerable. Her own sister knows something's up.

However, it's Traitors, so someone might pick their teacup up slightly differently or something and exhibit TRAITOR BEHAVIOUR and that could be that.

 

[Saffy]

Yeah, I think there are a few people suspicious of Armani but I wouldn't be surprised if they'll ultimately go for someone else.

Do you remember how Maddy was convinced Wilfred was a traitor but couldn't turn the group. I reckon something like that will happen.

Or not...it's all classic TRAITOR BEHAVIOUR

 

[Agent Sparrow]

I feel that its lost its magic now. Most of the faithfuls play a game of pretending to not have a clue so they dont get targeted and thus its just a game of faithful vs faithful until its gets real at the end. Boring

It always felt like it would have its run and then go the way of Big Brother - away from a range of “normal people” interested in the general idea and towards specific game players and those more interested in fame.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Yeah, I think there are a few people suspicious of Armani but I wouldn't be surprised if they'll ultimately go for someone else.

Do you remember how Maddy was convinced Wilfred was a traitor but couldn't turn the group. I reckon something like that will happen.

Or like that awful man in the Australian one who was really not as clever as he thought he was, but kept getting away with it because most of the faithfuls were unbelievably stupid.

 

[Saffy]

Or like that awful man in the Australian one who was really not as clever as he thought he was, but kept getting away with it because most of the faithfuls were unbelievably stupid.

Definitely. It's amazing the power some people can have over a group.

 

[moomoo]

No, it moves to 9 from tonight.

That’s annoying. I go to bed at 9.

 

[wtfftw]

Oh. My child wants to watch but hmmm.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Tbf it is all a bit academic when it’s on iplayer.

 

[wtfftw]

Might consult her father on appropriateness views.

 

[Voley]

I like that this isn't being dumped on Iplayer all at once. I enjoy nattering to you lot as it happens.

 

[moomoo]

Tbf it is all a bit academic when it’s on iplayer.

This is true but I was excited to be able to actually watch something live for once!

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Just watched the second Uncloaked, which made reference to Freddie’s smouldering shower cut away scene, along with Keith’s taekwondo. So what would yours be?

Given the attempted glamour of most of them, I’d be half tempted to have me using a netti pot.

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

I like that this isn't being dumped on Iplayer all at once. I enjoy nattering to you lot as it happens.

I miss the days of early Twitter when a whole of bunch of us across the country would watch Newsnight together, making live comments on Twitter - it was hilarious! 15 years ago.

 

[May Kasahara]

Changing my HRT patch, perhaps. Or fumbling a chord change on the guitar

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Attempting Tree Pose in yoga and then, very slowly, falling over…