AIBu to think "Traitors" is horrible?

Yes! Good point. Normal people, not wax faced wannabees like on MAFS.

I feel weird as I hate it. I watched a few episodes of season 1 and just couldn’t get into it. It seemed stupidly over-dramatic and I hated the fact it was about lying and deceiving, even as a game. I’m neurodivergent and also have trauma around being manipulated and lied to, so maybe that’s it. I just couldn’t enjoy it. But I haven’t met anyone else who feels the same way, so I must be a real outlier.

Years ago when "South Park" started my son was telling me about it and I thought it sounded horrendous! A little boy dying in a different way each episode and the others shouting "They've killed Kenny"? Then I watched it and it was, well not much good, but not horrible or scary. My point being, you can't judge from the description. Having said that, those dolls...

The other thing I like is that people’s looks are quite irrelevant. I really like that. It’s what you’re like that matters. Old / young / conventionally good looking and less so. If you’re a good sport and sing a song backwards you’re in.

This. I love The Traitors. I usually hate reality TV but there's something about it.

I like that Claudia flies the flag for 50 year old women! And everyone respects her likes yet is slightly scared of her. Goals - as my teens would say.!

Claudia and her understated, deadpan one liners are what make The Traitors IMO.

Agree. I don't enjoy the US version with "reality stars" and Alan Cumming hamming it up nearly so much, even though the setting, game and tasks are just the same.

Also I vote to banish whoever it was that mentioned Davina McCall on this thread. Nothing against her personally and her "zany" ott-ness works fine on The Masked Singer but Claudia and her understated, deadpan one liners are what make The Traitors IMO.

What a funny thread. Are you on a wind-up OP?

I've really enjoyed it. Claudia is an icon. I love the whole setting - the castle is stunning and all the panoramic shots of the countryside. Very atmospheric! The whole production is key to the drama and overall appeal, I think, though I am surprised it's sunny weather so often (not my experience whenever I've been to Scotland). Anyway, I hope the castle is a hotel or something - we want to stay there. If not, I want to do some version of a murder-mystery party of my own now - any ideas for a venue?

There is no occult OP - it's just the BBC fgs. The players all take part in good humour. It's the one show I can watch with all my teens and we all love it. Really good fun and I wish there were more shows like it. My daughter has signed me up!

Just watch it yourself OP and be done with it - there are three seasons in fact.

Re - the Anglican priest thing.

I was enthusiastically discussing The Traitors in church the other day with 7 or 8 church-goers, the church warden and the Priest. We all love it and no one, including our priest, thinks there's anything at all wrong with Lisa being on it.

It's a GAME. The rules of the GAME are to lie and decieve. You are not ACTUALLY lying to people, they know full well that lying is a part of it and they are all up for it. They want to play. Every one of them would have taken on the traitor role if picked.

It's like saying actors are lying. Bloody ridiculous.

Why you on a thread about it then? That doesn't make sense.

Also, on a film set, they can make it look very sunny with massive lights even when it's very dull.

Looking at the trees it seemed it was filmed April/May rather than the height of summer. And May was OK-ish, better than July and August. I would imagine that all the overhead drone shots of the castle and the cars arriving/leaving are filmed in a single day when it is nice weather.

The task they did with the chess board was filmed on a very wet day, Claudia had a brolly and they were all soaked.

Tbf the sun was what I noticed, so much so that i commented on it to dh. I think Scotland had sun in early summer until the jet stream moved.

Anyway, what a finale! Though personally I thought the series 2 finale just pipped it.

Blazing sun in Scotland in what was a lousy summer? I'm not sure you were watching the same series I was.

I might start a thread about wildly inaccurate things I imagine could be horrible about TV shows I've never watched:

The explicit sex scenes in Mrs Brown's Boys.
The glorification of gang violence in Gavin & Stacey.
The 'Hunger Games' style fight to decide who wins in Love Island.

Well, I think everyone I know here who used to live in the UK has, down the years, made every possible experiment with different types of VPN, to no avail. I gather some have worked in the past, but the BBC iPlayer seems very well protected. It’s BBC 4 I miss!

Please stop talking 😂

The backwards talking dolls were doing nursery rhymes which the competitors had to try to sing down the phone to other players, who also had to sing it whilst running to a recording device to sing what they heard. What they sung was then played forward, to see if it resembled the nursery rhyme and they could identify it.
No occult messages. No devil worshiping.
Just folk with a generally poor ear for music and bad singers, singing to other bad singers with a poor ear for music. Not sinister. Not demonic. Just funny because it was a bit ridiculous and they were bad at itand it was quite difficult.

Yet here you are commenting at length about something you have no clue about. Absolutely cuckoo.

Well without a vpn you can’t so it’s not as easy as just turn go to iPlayer on your iPad

Nobody is asking you to pay to watch it from France. Just suggesting that perhaps you shouldnt start a post about the moral horrors of a TV program YOU HAVEN'T SEEN.
Also, no ouija board so you can lower your pearls.
Oh and it isn't remotely scary. It's actually a bit silly.
Hope that helps.

You’re just someone who got carried away on a tide of outrage based on a total misunderstanding of a popular tv programme you’ve never seen.

As a pp said, it is ‘wholesome family entertainment’. It’s one of the few things that gets a big audience share that has a strong suspense element and happens on old-school linear tv, hence can’t be ‘binged’, and my moody 12 year old and all his friends watch it with their parents.

Talked to famous author at a book launch and she was eye rolling at a bad review by someone who ended with “although I have not actually read this book”

@Bouledeneige But if you're a fire and brimstone Christian I guess it's quite difficult to find much entertainment.

They can enjoy watching us heathens burn when the apocalypse comes!