To not get the Traitors

Well, welcome to my world as regards football. I don’t get why you would outsource your happiness to a bunch of millionaires kicking a ball into a net, any more than you’d lose you shit at the sheer excitement of two snails crawling up a wall. I get that a lot of people enjoy it, but I wish there were special tv channels for that kind of thing so I’m not frequently coming across that particularly mindless football crowd roar or three pundits in bad knitwear saying things like ‘It’s early doors for Trossard’.

I love it and will keep watching but I feel production more involved in this series, it feels more processed than the others.

But its good to talk about as programmes are all over the place on different platforms.

So will keep with it if just for Claudia's clothes

I agree, it’s “event” TV isn’t it! I love watching it live every night, the WhatsApp groups going off, and everyone talking about it.

I’ve no interest in it either and gave up on it after the very first episode. It just doesn’t appeal to me.

What is Operation Mincemeat?

Yes! This is what I love about it.

Each to their own but you can’t really judge something after only 2 mins.
And just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean it’s ‘a load of old tosh’ 🙄

I love it. I don’t understand people who don’t ‘get’ things. We all like different things. I have never watched love island or MAFS and I doubt I ever will because it’s not my type of thing but I don’t think people who do like it are wrong.

I like that people talk about the traitors. I have a group chat with 4 other people, it is a bit of fun, I don’t take it seriously and I don’t think people become famous off of it.

We know they’re not actually murdered. It just adds to the drama much like a murder mystery party.

I love it. But there are many things my friends/family love that I don’t. I think it’s very normal for some people to like things whilst others don’t.

I'd go back and watch the series in order on iPlayer after this one - the first 2 series are so much better than this one (which is still good). The celebrity series is also excellent.

In the earlier series the players didn't really know what was happening etc so it was much more engaging to learn the twists and turns of the show at the same time as them. This time it's very obvious that all the players are totally clued up and have come in with pre-determined strategies, and therefore the show is having to add extra layers in to try and catch them out, which is diluting the appeal IMO.

Perhaps give Radio 4 a go OP, I don’t think bbc 1 or radio 2 is suitable for someone as intelligent and cultured as you are

It’s great fun, a bit of light hearted drama for January

scott mills is hardly the Southbank Show is it! It’s light hearted and centred around pop culture

You don't have to "get" it. It's not compulsory.

I have watched it a couple of times, simply because everyone seems to like it so much and I was curious as to how it worked. It does draw you in, but tbh I don’t keep going back to it to see if Someone-Or-other was murdered or if the scheme two other people came up with worked. I do mean to at the time I watch an episode, but then I just forget and don’t really care.

I’ve never seen it, though vaguely know what it’s about because the actuaries who sit in my bank of desks in the office seem to absolutely love it.

I’m not enough of a TV watcher or at home in time regularly enough to give it a go myself, but from what I generally grasp I can see the appeal: it’s a bit like a giant, real game of Cluedo, and millions of people love playing Cluedo.

Life would be dull if everyone liked the same things!

I tried watching it for a few episodes but I really couldn't get interested in it but I guess different people like different things and it's just not the sort of thing I enjoy!

It’s a game. And Claudia is fabulous! There are a zillion other things to watch

I love it. I find people who don’t like it don’t understand it fully.

I had never watched it until this current season.

Previous seasons I'd been vaguely aware of, and heard people rave about, but never watched. I'd just assumed I think that it was another sort-of gameshow a bit like "I'm a Celebrity", which I've never got into either.

But having heard people rave so much about it, I thought I'd give this new season a go, and I've been HOOKED. I've absolutely loved it. And all the old seasons are on iPlayer, so I might well go back and watch them as well. I'm going to start with the celebrity one, even though I know who wins.

It's just another vehicle for people to be famous I guess.

I actually disagree with this. Of the previous series (at least in the UK) no-one has been made famous of the back of it. Sure ex-contestants get invited on the podcast, some have been in pantos, and I'm sure Harriet will sell a few more copies of her book. But the idea that reality TV actually makes people famous it quite dated now, there's too much of it around to do so, saturation has been reached. Even Love Island fails to catapult anyone into major success, that's been the case for around 5 years, I actually think thats what makes the Traitors fun - people aren't going in there for fame and the riches and noteririty it brings, but for the fun of it.

We love it because it’s something we can all watch together as a family, it brings us together in one room to enjoy something. Very few series like this exist now my DC are teens. We watched Stranger Things together over Christmas which was nice. We always watch Bake Off together and there’s the odd other thing like Squid Game when that was on. It’s also a nice treat in the bleakness of January.

So you know people don't get eaten by dinosaurs in Jurassic Park right?