There's a new series Traitors, with glorious glamourous host Alan Cumming. This is basically a Werewolf game where there are a group of people, in this case 20 people of whom 3 are the Traitors. Every night, the Traitors kill someone, and every evening, they all banish someone. The aim is to banish all the traitors and win the money. Any remaining traitors will get the money instead.
Clearly, this is an easily set up game, with lots of lovely betrayal for the tv company to feast on, and that aspect is pretty great. I'm halfway through the series, and I can't believe how it is going so far.
However, during the day, they are playing for prize money to add to the pot. Which reminds me of The Mole, in which the duty of the Mole was to stop the people getting the money. But in this game, both sides want to add money to the pot. Therefore there is NO incentive for the traitors to act in any way during the prize money part that isn't in alignment with everyone's interest to get the money. The Mole's point is to undermine the game, but here everyone is on the same side. Is someone acting suspiciously? Why would they? Everyone wants the money!
But that is the only big activity we have outside of people generally chatting and the voting. This game is supposed to be about who you can trust, but the big chunk of the episode, the money mission, doesn't bring that up.
It's just very weirdly disjointed.
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