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."

That's what I suspected......

What's wrong with lowbrow anyway?

It's a glorified game show and no doubt the BBC will do far too many series as is their normal thing. I don't watch it myself, though if others do I won't criticise them.

Agree with others that The Traitors is one of those rare shows which hits the spot for many ages. 19 year old DD and I have watched it together, pretty much the only other thing she watches live is Love Island and I'm just not interested in that.

Anyway, the OP has clearly got the wrong end of the stick having never seen it and has made all sorts of weird assumptions that it's supposed to be frightening (it's not), that the contestants don't know what's going on (they absolutely do), that it has a strong occult/paranormal element (no again) and it's anti-christian and a vicar had no business being in it (weird).

I might go off and start a thread slagging off something I know nothing about either.

I watched the first episode and didn't enjoy it. I love Claudia, but don't like her in this, and I'm not overly keen on programmes with a lot of members of the public in (don't like quiz shows, Goggle Box, Love Island etc). But you know, other people to enjoy it 🤷🏻‍♀️

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

You definitely sound like one. Think there’s a Martian version dropping next week…

No, you're thinking of Love Island.

The Traitors is entirely wholesome family fun. I honestly don't know where some posters are getting their daft ideas from.

You can't say you don't like it if you've never watched it. I'm not a reality TV person but I really enjoy Traitors. I'm 60 and I watched it with my DD 24 and DS 22 and we have a laugh with a few theories thrown in.

As others have said it's lighthearted and a little bit camp and there's a lot of care for contestants. It's a long way from Squid Game. And the great thing about the Church of England is that they allow vicars to have a sense of humour with their kindness. Harmless fun. But if you're a fire and brimstone Christian I guess it's quite difficult to find much entertainment.

I'd watch it 😂.

I love it. I just binged the entire season in one night (I skipped the tasks). It’s just like one big social experiment

Of all the tv programmes to get agitated about! Dh and i tried to watch love island with our teens now that was bloody awful and depressing. Traitors is a trillion times better than that

@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!

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”

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Please stop talking 😂

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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