To not be able to like Traitors?

[Traitor8er]

I can't be alone surely? Tried to watch as there's some interesting people in series 2. I didn't watch 1st series. Maybe that's the issue?
I just couldn't see the appeal?
It's obviously massive.

Should I keep watching as otherwise I'm missing a fantastic series?

Miranda was in a right huff about James Blunt and made herself look stupid. Just laugh it off it's what it's all about apparently, she then mimicked Hannah when she said 'the clever people go first'.
Think she sells the crazy goofball image but seems to take herself far too seriously unfortunately.

Not at all. There’s a difference between saying you don’t like it, or it’s not for you, and sneering about “moronic” programmes, trashy tv and so on.

Awful programme. Rather watch paint dry.

I find it incredibly boring. I tried to watch it, got 2 episodes in and gave up. I don't watch any soaps or reality TV so maybe I don't have the same interest in the sleb versions of programs as I don't know who most of the people are.

It's a fun light hearted game show, it's nothing deep or amazing but it's nice to be able to chat about something a lot of people have watched rather than "have you seen x?" "No but have you seen y?" "No"

It reminds me of weekend tv in the 90s, Cosy and a bit silly.

I hugely prefer Alan Cummings to Claudia winkleman, I really liked the US celeb one as they "put on a show" a bit, now Richard is gone in finding this series a bit snooze.

Meh. The first celeb traitors was quite fun. We only watched because DD wanted to but it was enjoyable. This series, less so. There are too many comedians, none of whom are remotely funny!

BTW, Nick Mohammed was born in Britain to a Cypriot mother and Trinidadian father. On what planet would this make him “Asian”?

I'm a retired editor and I agree with you. I worked on a YA novel with a they/them character and I had to read one paragraph three times before I worked out what was going on (similar to your example).
It's made more complicated by a new editing convention that if someone uses say he and them as pronouns, that you cycle these in alternate paragraphs. This goes against my training to a) make things consistent, and b) make it easy for the reader, because your primary objective is to communicate with your reader(s).
Sorry, this should be in Pedants' Corner!

I agree this series isn't as good, the first one seemed friendlier somehow and everyone was having a laugh. This lot seem to be taking things a bit too seriously!

You are definitely not alone. I don't watch any of this reality TV garbage.

Same, I find Bella inexplicably annoying. Couldn’t watch The Worst Witch with my dds when they were little as she was so irritating. Feel the same about Julie so glad they have both gone ! I am not enjoying it as much as the last series, I think it would be better if Richard was still there and Hannah still a faithful.

So she calls herself "they" when she's talking about herself when she's not there.
And she doesn't mind if a taxi-driver calls her "she" to her face.. or to the other people in the taxi.

So I don't suppose Bella minds what pronoun someone uses online.

Gotta agree, i like Claudia but Alan Cumming is a much better host

If you don't watch soaps or reality tv I've no idea why you'd bother watching this?

It'd be like me saying I don't like nature programmes then criticising Autumn Watch.

For those of us who sometimes enjoy daft reality shows the issue is this is just so lacking in any kind of interesting chat, fun games or even the much talked about 'game playing'. Boring celebs sit around being boring and voting people off depending on which name has been mentioned most. That's it.

They need to up the game imo.

A friend who teaches creative writing has noted a trend for students to concoct syntactically horrible sentences because they now see 'they/their' as an indication of a gender-fluid singular than a plural pronoun, so they write things like 'Max went for a walk with he and Alex's dog' rather than 'Max went for a walk with their dog.' (Yes, not even 'his and Casey's dog'...)

Poor james acaster. He's one of the very few people that might actually make me watch an episode. He's a complicated fella. If traitors break him i'm going to pelt the bbc with rabbit droppings - and i have A LOT of rabbit droppings.

BTW, Nick Mohammed was born in Britain to a Cypriot mother and Trinidadian father. On what planet would this make him “Asian”?

I knew he was Br@ittish i was one of the Pp talking about it i thought a poster was talking about Nick, i knew he was mixed race. And I had "Asian" in air quotes, his father was indo trinidadian so I wrongly assumed that they would identify as Asian/Indian.

All reality TV could be said to be a bit ridiculous really. And no doubt cops will tell us detective dramas are, doctors will say the same about hospital ones. The point is nearly all TV is just entertainment, and I get that analysing it as if you're a cross between Kant, Freud and Vera doesn't work. But it's kind of fun for a lot of people. If that's not you, that is ok!

OP you are not alone. I don’t understand all the hype , find it boring, and resent all the time given to discussing it on other programmes

Don’t even start on Mrs Brown’s boys!

Exactly this. I used to edit too (corporate guff sadly, not actual fiction). The whole purpose of writing is to introduce ideas with clarity. Word salads make my eyes hurt, and I would have drawn a red line through that entire paragraph.

Some reality shows are good. Granted iacgmooh is repetitive now but we are what, 25yrs in? It used to be really entertaining in its heyday. This is the second celeb series of Traitors and you'd think the work experience staff were planning the missions.

They've got the castle, the scenery, Claudia, the music. They just need some better content.

@Traitor8er
Honestly I've never watched it because I never liked the sound if it to start with
Don't/never did care what others raved about.
Lifes too short

I like him so might give that a go? I'm not bothered about knowing all of the celebrities. I barely know anyone on strictly this year but am still enjoying it.

@Traitor8er you are perfectly entitled to not enjoy spoon fed overblown BBC sheepy TV, there are millions that do, you aren’t alone.