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."

Yanbu. It's the worst kind of "bread and circuses" nonsense reality TV.

I seem to have missed the bit in the Bible where Jesus said "Thou shalt not have dolls playing nursery rhyme recordings backwards".

If you don't have a TV, OP, why did you talk about the expense of paying to watch from France as being your reason for not watching the show? Surely watching the series would incur rather more expense than the streaming fee it if that were the case?

Did you grow up in the U.K. OP, and how old are you if you don’t mind me asking? I can understand missing out on Wink Murder, but how did you miss a game of Cluedo? Professor Plum in the conservatory with the lead piping? It was just about the most famous board game after Monopoly for decades! I’m not a board game fan myself but even I have played a few games of Cluedo in my time!

There are no Oujia boards or anything occult like that in the Traitors. That would definitely not be family friendly television. Compared to some of the reality TV shows of past years, Traitors is all very tame and the contestants are fully aware that it’s all a game and talk about that a lot on the digest shows and the show itself. It’s all very good humoured.

The whole idea that the contestants went in completely oblivious to what would be the end result is a bit unfeasible to me.

Yet again, where do you get that from? The contestants know perfectly well what the end result of the game is - obviously they don't know who's going to win, but they know all about the structure of the game, that they will be gradually whittled down to the last few and what the rules are dictating who wins and how.

It seems a bit arrogant to imply that you are a better Christian than the vicar, and indeed than her Bishop who must have agreed to her going in for this.

Don't watch it then. It's a game and not one for numpties.

Oh ffs it's not anti-Christian!! So that's why you've got the cat's bum face on about a vicar being in it.

Maybe you should stick to discussing things you know something about.

I don't 'officially' watch it but I have eavesdropped when my DC are watching. It's strangely gripping!

You don't have a TV or live in the UK and haven't watched this TV show. So what on earth is this pointless thread about ?

Not even Snakes and Ladders or Monopoly? That's weird!

I played Connect Four with my grandma for a bit but that's about all I remember. Just not a thing with us.

Are you French, OP? It’s basically an extended version the parlour game Loup-Garou, but with a cash prize and presented by a woman with very glossy hair and some excellent jumpers. No supernatural dimension whatsoever, and the few stabs at Scottish Baronial Gothic (which are pretty heavily ironic anyway) were foiled this season by blazing sun most days.

I'm beginning to think that I must be a Martian.

That's actually sad. Most children grow up playing board games. Maybe not so much in the digitised age, but my three all in their 20s played them, same as we did in my family.

I wonder if that’s why the concept of the show seems so incomprehensible to you OP? If you have no reference for board games, parlour games etc?

Not outside the uk you cant

"It's staged entertainment with added bits of paranormal rubbish"

@KnopkaPixie This night be good point at which to remind you that you've never seen it! 🙄

The whole idea that the contestants went in completely oblivious to what would be the end result is a bit unfeasible to me. It's staged entertainment with added bits of paranormal rubbish which sends some people over the edge.

The contestants know how the game works. They don't know who wins but that's the nature of playing a game. When I play a game with my DS we don't know who will win but we know the rules.

There is no paranormal element to it. You've misinterpreted the tasks they had to do.

I think it’s a complete load of crap and so I choose not to watch it.

Out of interest why do you feel 'it's a complies of crap'?

I get that we all have different interests but I find it interesting that any kind of reality TV seems to incite disgust rather than people just saying it's not their thing.

Not outside the uk you cant

We've been following it avidly on Iplayer from Thailand. Although I'm sure the VPN is a bit dodgy lol.

Also I find it funny when people claim 'it's a load of crap' followed by ' I don't watch it' 😂😂

@SerenityNowSerenityNow It's because it's their civic duty to let us know how unique and better they are. Happens with any show that a vast majority of people enjoy, someone has to come along and say they don't watch because it's too lowbrow for them. I just hope it gives their self confidence a little boost, because it's obviously lacking!

Oh my sweet summer child 😂

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