This is an amazing game show. This should be shown at school, jobs, to everyone. It's a perfect example of herd mentality, making snap judgments, the difference between facts and opinions, evidence and circumstance. It's ridiculous watching some of these people and how awful they are, how quick they are to jump on someone based off of one comment or one action. I think anyone who has lived, gone to high school, or work (which often times is an extension of high school behaviors) will understand this and appreciate it. We've all been victims of he said she said herd mentality.
Watching people taking this game personally - judging people for playing a literal role they were given in a game show is INSANE. It's just a perfect psychological and social study of human behavior.
We also enjoy the fact that there is no back story, no build up of people outside the show, no sex and nudity. Alan Cummings Traitors was the best in our opinion. No back story, minimal cussing, minimal interference of the game by the host. He also pulled off every insanely wonderful outfit, and delivered his lines perfectly. No cheese. He embraced it and killed it. Australia version did have too much of the back story and build up of people. This one had a lot of swearing, which we weren't fans of. The shows are all fairly clean and watchable with family and young children. Again, minus the swearing. This version was not watchable by young children.
The other complaint we have of this one is that, like the Australia version, the host gets to talking too much. Really noticeable in the second season. Trying to sway all of the faithfuls against the traitors even more so than they naturally are. They make it seem like the entire reason for the show is to see the faithfuls win, throwing all of their support behind them. They sell the traitors short, plant seeds, tell them they are all laughing at them, pit them against each other, and refuse to say how great the traitors are actually doing. It's literally two teams, one very outnumbered, against each other. Let the best team win and maybe keep the your opinion to themselves, step back and just be the host. Not the puppet master.
Once you watch one you will want to watch all of them. Prepare to get less sleep. It's always a cliffhanger ending and you will find yourself saying just one more.
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