Traitors is a negative influence on society

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The TV show Traitors is an example of society breaking down not just a bit of fun entertainment. It glorifies and rewards deceitful behaviour. I can’t actually believe so many people watch it and encourage their kids to watch it as if it is a good thing.

Actually as a teacher I’ve really enjoyed having something in common with the kids I teach that we are all into and can talk about. They all watch with their parents - so much nicer than everyone on their own devices shut off in an online world.

It's just grown up Wink Murder so maybe you should blame the Victorians.

I remember all our family watching Benny Hill, I certainly don’t run around after women and don’t recall my grandfather doing that after watching it.

Have you watched the show OP?

This series is the first time I've watched and the contestants are a lovely bunch of polite and educated people. Includes barristers, a detective, police, a psychologist.

The contestants are able to separate the game from the people/real life and speak openly about that often "You're a lovely bloke but this is the game" - breaking the fourth wall.

I get the impression all of them would attend a reunion and wish their fellow contestants well. I think they reflect very well on the British public.

I detest the show, tbh.

I agree. I married 3 random strangers last year alone. I blame MAFS

You’re a traitor, aren’t you?

Don't understand youre "half famous" comment. These are regular people. And tbh the celebrity version was definitely not some half famous people, I was surprised at the big names playing

My friend was watching it. I wasn't. After it had finished I asked her to explain the show. We both agreed it was worrying. There will be some people who view it simply as a show. This for me is worrying for society.

… and then we all watch and empathise, and pay and congratulate the most duplicitous one at the end? That’s right isn’t it?

The traitors don’t always win. Have you actually watched the show?

No. The point is to get the 'most duplicitous', the traitors, out, so the faithful can win and share the prize. It's literally the whole point of the game, to stop the traitors winning.

Oh don't be so ridiculous!

There are FAR worse things to be worried about around the internet and social media than a simple TV show which actually brings people & families together. Its event TV which is a thing of the past and so rare now.

And, guess what, it's just a game! Anyone watching it who can't see that shouldn't be watching it but also probably has bigger problems navigating life in general.

I would argue that Mumsnet, which you are using OP, is probably more of a problem with its trolls and often very skewed advice!

Wait till she hears about Shakespeare!

I have just started watching for the first time.
What an unmitigated pile of shit TV.
And last nights sad story episode was straight out of the likes of MAFS style playbook

Don't watch any more then, it's clearly not for you.
People like different things.

But to say it's a "bad influence" on society, as the OP has, is over the top nonsense.

Crikey. It's a bit of fun. Rather that that naked attraction. Love island or the like

It's based on a party game (Mafia / Werewolf) that has been around and popular since the late 80s.

Real life is full of lies and liars. To pretend it isn't is incredibly naive. If you don't like the show, don't watch it, but it isn't a bad influence on society - the people taking part are part of society themselves.

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Love Island is far worse I would say!

lol. Bless

I dont think it's negative, I think it's interesting.

I like people as a whole, but have often felt that you never really know them and have experienced forming the wrong opinions of people as well as being on the receiving end of this.

This programme highlights this - the faithful getting accused of being traitors based on very poor 'evidence' - no real grounds at all, even by people who have been barristers and senior detectives.

Traitors playing a fab game and not being rumbled at all.

I watch them during the show, and how this uncertainty makes them behave with each other and their inability to read others' motives correctly. Jade is getting a hard time for no real reason and is faithful; it's upsetting her. The others can not give a decent reason for thinking this way, but persist anyway.

None of them even came close last night to picking one of the traitors, which just shows how we as people can get things so wrong.

I just find it so fascinating, also a bit sad, that we can vilify someone, like some are targeting Jade, can't justify it properly, persevere with it and then only to find she is not what they thought she was.

Whilst this programme intensifies stuff like this, society as a whole, I believe, is guilty of this, just on a less intense level.

Has Mary Whitehouse been reanimated ?

It’s just a rather elaborate game of wink murder really. I don’t think it’s a risk to the fabric of society.

What about the popularity of tv shows about murder? True crime shows/podcasts? Does that show an unsettling obsession with violent death?

People have lied and been duplicitous to get money since money was invented. Long before the Traitors or wink murder. It’s a human flaw that has always been present.

If people cannot separate media from real life, that is a bigger problem which I do agree we are seeing but one show is hardly the problem. That is coming from the influence social media has and the role that traditional media is playing in creating division.

Do you understand the concept of a game, OP?

And do you actually watch the show?