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Stop telling me to watch The bloody Traitors!

86 replies

dreamiesformolly · 02/01/2026 20:41

Obviously not a particularly serious thread, just feeling a bit grouchy about this as it's happened a number of times just this week. I'm really not interested in watching it and people keep assuming I am, trying to discuss it with me and then acting like it's the most astonishing thing in the world that I'm not and going on to try to persuade me that I simply must watch it. What the flip is it about this programme that everyone's getting so excited about?

(Usual disclaimers apply: everyone has different viewing tastes, live and let live, yadda yadda. I'm just so bored of being told I MUST watch it! 🙄)

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Namechangerage · 02/01/2026 22:28

InterestedDad37 · 02/01/2026 21:54

Watched half an episode once and decided it just wasn't for me. I'm equally fed up with people telling me to watch it.

But at least you can say you tried and didn’t like it?

Namechangerage · 02/01/2026 22:27

I don’t get why you wouldn’t just try watching it before you judge it? If you like it, happy days, if you don’t then fine, don’t watch it. Is it just to be “different”? I recommended it once to my ILs - they are retired and watch about 10 hours of TV a day, I know they would like Traitors but they also refuse to watch it for some reason. Weird…

BashfulClam · 02/01/2026 22:22

EmeraldRoulette · 02/01/2026 20:46

Actually, no one has suggested this to me.

People have told me they watched it, but they've been very apologetic about it 😂

Never watched those either but I do love Traitors.

grumpygrape · 02/01/2026 22:19

I like Traitors but being told I MUST watch Strictly, Maul the Kidwife, whatever, really frustrated me.

firstofallimadelight · 02/01/2026 22:15

NannyOgg1341 · 02/01/2026 20:45

Oh same here, the same goes for Love Island and Married at First Sight. I've even started pretending that I watched an episode but it wasn't for me, but then they just switch to "you've got to give it more of a chance". It is what it is, I'm just waiting for the trend to pass.

Love island use to be excellent. It’s dire now. I’ve never seen mafs either. Traitors is fabulous

Fangisnotacoward · 02/01/2026 22:07

I tried, I really did. But I dont like these shows where people try to screw each other over.

Zov · 02/01/2026 22:06

Gribouille · 02/01/2026 21:37

@Zov - you are seen! This has been my - whole - fucking Christmas holiday... I am ready to chew my own ears off... 😩

And no, I NEVER do this to him! Or it would be Jane Austen versus Avatar... which will probably be out next year...

😆 Sisters in arms. Solidarity!

MoFadaCromulent · 02/01/2026 22:03

It's essentially deal or no deal for people who want to think they're intelligent observers of the human condition

There's fuck all actual strategy and even if they eliminate a traitor early doors they will just stick another back in to fill out the episodes.

Mildly interesting for a season and then you realize the format and there's very little reason to come back for more

TheNameWasOnceChosen · 02/01/2026 22:01

Good lord. I've had 'you should watch it' from a least 5 people. Unfortunately for me my son (24) asked me to watch it with him last night, so I did (we never watch anything together, so I thought i should). Luckily he's brought a friend round tonight.. and he's back to university tomorrow.

AnneLovesGilbert · 02/01/2026 21:59

I felt like that. I hate game shows. Then I watched it and I bloody love it 😂

InterestedDad37 · 02/01/2026 21:54

Watched half an episode once and decided it just wasn't for me. I'm equally fed up with people telling me to watch it.

SpaceRaccoon · 02/01/2026 21:52

I tried to watch the recent Celeb one to see what the fuss was about, but I was bored by it.

AmyDuPlantier · 02/01/2026 21:38

Imlyingandthatsthetruth · 02/01/2026 21:14

Ah yes, a program so important that it features on the BBC news front page and the TV news. Read that again and reflect on yet another thing that's gone wrong with this country.

Edited

I said that on a different thread and got told to get a grip.

But really it’s not NEWS is it? It irritates me beyond belief.

Gribouille · 02/01/2026 21:37

@Zov - you are seen! This has been my - whole - fucking Christmas holiday... I am ready to chew my own ears off... 😩

And no, I NEVER do this to him! Or it would be Jane Austen versus Avatar... which will probably be out next year...

ComewithmeIntotheseaofLove · 02/01/2026 21:31

Hotel785634 · 02/01/2026 21:17

I agree. I watched two episodes of a past season and hated it. If I want psychological games and people stabbing others in the back I only have to go to work. Why would I want that in my leisure time? But it’s one of those things that people keep asking if you’ve watched and telling you that you must if you let on that you haven’t.

That’s what I think - plenty of this shit at work!

Zov · 02/01/2026 21:24

dreamiesformolly · 02/01/2026 20:41

Obviously not a particularly serious thread, just feeling a bit grouchy about this as it's happened a number of times just this week. I'm really not interested in watching it and people keep assuming I am, trying to discuss it with me and then acting like it's the most astonishing thing in the world that I'm not and going on to try to persuade me that I simply must watch it. What the flip is it about this programme that everyone's getting so excited about?

(Usual disclaimers apply: everyone has different viewing tastes, live and let live, yadda yadda. I'm just so bored of being told I MUST watch it! 🙄)

It is annoying isn't it, when someone is obsessed with something, and thinks everyone else must be too, and if they're not, they are WRONG.

My DH is a bit like this with a couple of programmes he watches. He has a habit of giving me a rundown of what's going on, and I'm like Confused 'errrr I don't watch it - so I don't need to hear about it, coz I'm not interested.' He says 'well I am interested!' I'm like Confused

He just doesn't get it. Why the fuck is he blathering on about something I give zero shits about?

I sometimes get a running commentary if he has something on that I am not watching, and I am in the room (trying to read, or look at the internet.) it's so infuriating that I end up leaving the room.

He's like 🙄 Annoyed and puzzled in equal measures that I give zero shits about what he is watching! I NEVER do this to him, with 'my' programmes. Why would I bore the shit out of him, talking about my programmes, that he isn't interested in?!'

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Horrorscope · 02/01/2026 21:22

I watched and loved the first series. By the end of the second series I’d had enough because it’s just people saying the same (stupid) things, ad nauseum. I do like the challenges, though, but that’s not enough to make me watch another series.

Zov · 02/01/2026 21:22

It is annoying isn't it, when someone is obsessed with something, and thinks everyone else must be too, and if they're not, they are WRONG.

My DH is a bit like this with a couple of programmes he watches. He has a habit of giving me a rundown of what's going on, and I'm like Confused 'errrr I don't watch it - so I don't need to hear about it, coz I'm not interested.' He says 'well I am interested!' I'm like Confused

He just doesn't get it. Why the fuck is he blathering on about something I give zero shits about?

I sometimes get a running commentary if he has something on that I am not watching, and I am in the room (trying to read, or look at the internet.) it's so infuriating that I end up leaving the room.

He's like 🙄 Annoyed and puzzled in equal measures that I give zero shits about what he is watching!

Hotel785634 · 02/01/2026 21:17

I agree. I watched two episodes of a past season and hated it. If I want psychological games and people stabbing others in the back I only have to go to work. Why would I want that in my leisure time? But it’s one of those things that people keep asking if you’ve watched and telling you that you must if you let on that you haven’t.

Imlyingandthatsthetruth · 02/01/2026 21:14

Ah yes, a program so important that it features on the BBC news front page and the TV news. Read that again and reflect on yet another thing that's gone wrong with this country.

dreamiesformolly · 02/01/2026 21:02

Strawberryfruitcorner · 02/01/2026 20:53

That’s me, I tell people i watch MAFS but it’s awful and I probably shouldn’t 😂

Same with MAFS. But (other than the MAFS thread on here) I'm too embarrassed to admit I watch it, let alone exhort others to do so. 😂

I'm not sure how it's managed to suck me in, which I guess might apply to The Traitors too although I sense, rightly or wrongly, that the latter has somewhat higher production values. The bar's not that high tbf. 😂

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dreamiesformolly · 02/01/2026 20:59

ChocoChocoLatte · 02/01/2026 20:49

What’s wrong with folk wanting to have a common talking point. It’s a TV sensation, ratings unseen. If you’re not interested just politely reply and jog on.

such a non issue

But do you insist other people should watch it simply because you do (assuming you do)? That's the irritation, not the common talking point element.

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Strawberryfruitcorner · 02/01/2026 20:53

EmeraldRoulette · 02/01/2026 20:46

Actually, no one has suggested this to me.

People have told me they watched it, but they've been very apologetic about it 😂

That’s me, I tell people i watch MAFS but it’s awful and I probably shouldn’t 😂

ComewithmeIntotheseaofLove · 02/01/2026 20:53

devildeepbluesea · 02/01/2026 20:49

I watched a bit of the last one, where Alan Carr won.

It was deeply underwhelming. Hold firm OP.

This!

In really don’t get it

ComewithmeIntotheseaofLove · 02/01/2026 20:52

Omg its a massive “unconscious bias” display

I don’t know what the interest is, can’t see it myself

I hate the coffins as well - really bad taste - esp last night as they had them floating on water when on the beeb 2 was sinking of titanic