AIBu to think "Traitors" is horrible?

[KnopkaPixie]

I do not live in the UK, have no access to BBC media but my mum seems to be quite caught up in it. Apparently it's the grand final tonight.

I've watched the trailer on youtube but it just seems horrible. The information I've got from my mum is a bit garbled but wasn't there a woman vicar on it?

I don't want to sound like, "Outraged of Tumbridge Wells" but...

My mum was yakking on on about lying in a coffin, talking dolls, tarot cards...

I thought it was more like Taskmaster.

It all seems a bit rum to me. It's like, "Eyes Wide Shut" meets "Squid Game."

AIBU "It's just a bit of fun, stop clutching your pearls."
AINBU. "It’s horrible and I get mixed up between Davina McCall and Claudia Winkleman."

Ask your mum.

It couldn’t be less like Eyes Wide Shut or Squid Games if it tried…

YABU, it’s ’Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells’.

It’s a very addictive show OP!

I'm totally gripped by it 😂

It's more like taskmaster I suppose, definitely not squid game at all.

It's basically trash but very enjoyable.

Excited for the final!

This is the first series I have watched but there seemed to be so much hype and excitement for this series I decided to give it a go.

I have found it compelling viewing and am very much looking forward to the final tonight. In these days of streaming TV it is refreshing to find there are still "water cooler" programmes that everyone want to talk about.

From your posts OP it sounds like you really don't have the first idea what it is about. Maybe your DM is bad at explaining, who knows.

Anyway, it isn't in the least horrible and I will be glued to the TV from 8:30 tonight

Its fun, there is a bit of intelligence behind it and provides an interesting take on human behaviour. Right now it is really enjoyable and so far not been filled by a bunch of love island wannabes or instagrammers like Big Brother (which was good for the first 3 series then went downhill rapidly).

I've not watched it but I know who the traitor is as I've got insider info, so I won't be watching it anyway.

What ouija boards?!

You are just embarrassing yourself here!

Everyone knows who the Traitors are! LOL

Hmm it's hardly inside information is everyone viewing knows who the traitors are and that's part of watching it!!!

I probably don't. Keep me informed. I'm willing to to be educated. It seems to be a big cultural phenomenon in the UK but I'm out of the loop and it all sounded really weird.

Is it just high kitch?

It's basically an extended murder mystery game.
Nothing horrible about it.

We're all looking forward to the final tonight, including our 10 year old.
We've got a sweepstake on the go!

It’s a tv and slightly reality show version of a real game that lots of people have actually played, with some tasks thrown in to add a bit more drama and better tv. I like it, both the actual game and the tv show version!

Ouija boards? What do you think they are doing in the tasks, communicating with the other side? THere have been no ouija boards, no seances, no undead, no tarot cards.

The card game thing was a simple game where players had to swap cards with the intention of being left with a specific one at the end. Sort of like Old Maid / Scabby Queen in reverse. The coffin thing was more a large tomb, well above ground.

It's not at all unsuitable and yes, you have no business starting threads slagging off programmes you haven't seen.

Bless your heart. <pats head>

Gosh. Are you the person I know who watched 1 episode then declared it was nonsense as it's obvious who the traitors are because their body language gives it away?

It's obvious because we (the viewers) know already.
And the show is heavily edited so it looks like people reacted differently to how they did.

We all know who the traitor is

Well not literally everyone! But most of the people I know IRL (other than clergy it seems) think she shouldn't be on there.

I’d just be happy if the threads for it, and for the TV section in general, didn’t appear in the trending list. People must love to prattle about it because there’s sometimes 3 or 4 threads at a time showing in Trending, and several maxed out at 1000 posts. 😂

a bit of a scare at bedtime

Also this is so wrong. No, it's not scary IN THE SLIGHTEST.

Thanks everyone. Keep on explaining. It just sounded strange from what my mum said.

If you all have your popcorn ready, so to speak, I'm interested. Is it a really big thing? Is everybody watching it?

😂 Yeah, that is kind of the point..that the viewers know who the traitors are.

One of my relatives thought the same, apparently saying ‘murder’ is horrible and unnecessary 🙄

Its just a game, all the participants know this, its fine.

It’s brilliant.

Really? How weird.