The traitors

[Magnalux]

i love the English version. The first episode is always a bit manic so will reserve judgement. It’s interesting though the names of two traitors have already been brought up!

God yeah it was on , on the rte player 🙄 thanks for helping me sort it. I can watch now 😁😁

Last night's episode was good.

Michelle seems to be taking it very personally, doesn't she?

Poor Paudí putting his foot in it with Kaitlyn, she's very good as a traitor. Eamon loves his role.

It was funny when they were in the cars talking about relationships, was there brothers, sisters, parents.

I can't decide of Baldy Casino Man (Patrick?) actually had a genuine memory lapse about the car conversation with Nina where she told him she had suspicions about him, or whether he just decided to lie to try to discredit her (which is a traitor-ish thing to do for someone who isn't...?)

I thought it was a pity they parachuted the Cork fireman (whose name escapes me) back into the game so early -- from memory, in the UK Traitors, they reintroduced players who'd been banished before entering the castle in episode one a bit later on, usually after a traitor had been unmasked, so there was a more credible reason to think the reintroduced people might include a traitor.

I'm still lobbying for an ejector seat at the round table for cryers.

I think Patrick couldn't hear Nina, poor eejit. I saw a bit of Diane on unclothed and she's gas, it's a pity she didn't last longer. Overall I'm happy with the production quality too- I was a bit concerned of what impression would be sent off into the world. I adore Paudie. That beautician from Cork will be on fire tomorrow with whoever it was who wrote her name. Michelle is defo in that paranoia, I'd say we're two episodes away from her asking why she's still here?

I'm really enjoying this - think they are a relatable bunch. Katelyn will go far - she is switched on and doing great.

I think Paudie was trying to help his son Andrew by throwing Katelyn's name out there but it has backfired on him. I think the other two will turn on him - he can't be trusted.

I like Christine - I don't think she'll go far though. Michelle is a very sincere character who is taking it all too personally.

Siobhan is doing a great job

I think Patrick wasn't listening to Nina in the car - he believes he is right. If I was a Faithful I would be very suspicious that this was two Traitors having an argument at the Round Table.

Yes, you want to say 'Look, Michelle, enough with the Main Character Syndrome. There's about twenty virtual strangers running around in the woods trying to remember the Irish for squirrel and sitting in a castle staring at one another -- no one has yet had the time to register who is friends with who. I guarantee the traitors didn't murder poor, innocent, gaeilgeoir Niall because they were trying to isolate you.'

I think Paudie and Caitlin (Katelyn? Kaitlin?)'s public spat, and the corridor conversation afterwards, has put both of them in the spotlight, and there are a few people also suspicious of Grinning Garda Eamon, so I think none of the three traitors is entirely under the radar at the moment.

I've just caught up with last nights. It's so so good!!!

Agree Paudie's loyalty seems to be (rightly) to Andrew, to the detriment of the traitors. It might be the undoing of him. And it must be hard to be keeping two secrets.

Eamon is to smug! He's watchable, but I kinda want him to be tripped up.

Kayelyn? Is class. She's v clever and I hope she does well. Can we get her and Andrew together?

Now we have to wait until Sunday!!! Will we cope?

Still laughing at 'Daddy' 😂

how did paudie survive that! The other two have absolutely no time for him, it’s only a matter of time before he goes. I’d love to see Eamon banished he’s so obnoxious!

I thought Paudie was a goner tonight, he escaped by the skin of his teeth.
I find it so interesting that all 3 traitors have some heat on them. Are us Irish people too clever for this game? 😜

Wasn't as wild about Siobhán's outfits tonight, especially not the "Dynasty style" slinky robe & nightie look alike at the start 🫤

I thought that was quite a good use by Paudie of the ‘God, we’re such fools’ weepy moment after they realise they’ve just banished another Faithful. Maybe he can claw it back.

No one has tried the ‘Go on, vote for me, and I guarantee you’ll be kicking yourself when I stand up there telling you I’m a Faithful after you’ve banished me’ technique yet. I think now is the moment, when there’s been a stream of Faithful banishments.

It was helpful that devious Eamon pretended that Paudie’s son had brought up his name, which obviously Paudie knows isn’t true, so now he has a reason to suspect him of deviousness. Paudie is my favourite of the traitors. Katelyn is wet (and unfairly, I can’t get past her horrid fleece and little girl hair slides), and Eamon is putting Garda recruitment back thirty years. It’s funny that only Oyin, who otherwise seems like a bit of a nitwit, has suspicions.

Poor Linda. Her only crime was appearing mild-mannered and slightly intelligent. Which is of course fatal.

No, she looked much better last week! Mind you, who doesn’t look fabulous with wolfhounds as accessories? I wish I could wear polo or turtlenecks, but they make me look neckless.

Help! Where are you watching?

I can’t find it!!!

RTE 1. 9.35 start.

I haven't watched the UK version. What I don't get is how one or two contestants pick one person to be banished (for the flimsiest of reasons) and then the majority go along with it. I guess it just shows the power of suggestion. With so many contestants at this early stage, I would have expected the contestants to be voting for a whole range of people, instead of just focusing on one or two. Has the UK version been the same?

I think we all know a Paudie. I'd like to see Eamonn go purely because his smugness is starting to irritate me.

I like the Irish elements in the show - the use of Irish in one of the games and the game today with the Irish symbols.

I found Diane amusing (am I right in thinking she was the first to be banished?). She made no effort to defend herself and pretty much said, "This is who I am and if you don't like it, well, that's your problem, not mine".

@Taytocrisps it was originally a game designed to demonstrate that an informed minority will always beat an uninformed majority. So that's literally the psychology of it. It's always interesting to watch and think of persecution and how this is essentially how it starts. Like the Salem Witch Trials up to present day.

Meanwhile I'm here at home and team Paudie all the way. I'd love an outstanding episode tomorrow where he makes an unlikely alliance with Mark and Nick and they oust Eamonn. Could you IMAGINE.

No, think it's just the traitors are crap!! Mind you none of them have actually been banished yet. Maybe tonight!!

Though it's not usual for someone to suspect a traitor correctly early on. Just they don't voice it or if they do it gets them voted out as the traitor turns it on them.

The round table is different in the Irish one . Not as emotional - no dramatic reactions and fewer tears (though not none, sadly).

Made me wonder yesterday how much of what they say on camera is directed. When they all walked into the church and saw the masked people and it's edited to the contestants (I remember Faye not sure who else) saying they've no idea what was happening.) So are we to believe that they applied to be on the Traitors but none of them have seen another country's Traitors?

Speaking of editing there's been two balls up in the editing - the one where they showed Paudie writing Nial and another where they apparently show the pictures with the banished person crossed out already 🤣. Missed that second one - evidently not looking carefully enough but I certainly saw the first one.

Team Paudie here! And absolutely, we all know one. Yes, it would be great if he formed an alliance and got Annoying Eamon banished. Paudie needs to talk to Oyin.

And thank god there’s less weeping. I still feel there should be an ejector seat at the Round Table for criers.

Agree with others that I was sure Paudie would be gone tonight. No idea where the suspicions on Linda came from. I am really beginning to dislike Katelyn and Eamonn. You can say yeah they are playing a game but there is a meanness and arrogance to them that is unnecessary. Eamonn in the diary type room saying God if Katelyn goes I am left with stupid Paudie or something to that effect this just demonstrates what kind of person he is which doesn't say much for the Gardaí. Katelyn is bringing suspicion on herself by being too eager and constantly fishing for names from people which is making people suss.

I watched all the UK ones and before I knew where would be an Irish one I always thought that if there was there would be less of the I love yous. you are my best friend and round table bawling, thankfully I being proved right so far.

Is it my imagination or is there very little talk about anyone’s jobs? I seem to remember from the UK one that lots of people pretended to have different jobs to deflect suspicion — there was an actress who pretended her only job was her carehome job, and other people, too, I think who concealed what they did. I don’t remember anyone saying ‘So Paudie, you must have lots of experience of wrong’uns’ or whatever.

@Fuckish Yeah true, no one is discussing that at all not sure they have even shared what they do, which in some ways is quite refreshing because tbh whether you are traitor or not has nothing to do with your career in real life

We're only seeing the edited bits. There are probably loads of conversations we're missing. And I agree with @MsFelicityLemon there must be a lot of, "Oh, so what part of Cork are you from? Do you know so and so?". Some contestants get a lot more exposure than others. Are they just more outgoing, or do the producers/editors focus more on some people? Also, I think Andrew is starting to suspect Paudie. He said something about him being very defensive. But I can't remember if he voted to banish him.

They definitely know what Paudie did for his job, as he made a joke about locking (or not locking 🤔) doors. No-one made any reference to it, as in they didn't seem surprised by the comment.
Maybe they just don't care? Or maybe there's more to fit in, in a shorter time, because of the ad breaks.

But those would be the fun bits. The ‘I think Paudie must have banged up my criminal Uncle Mikey’ and ‘I have an awful feeling my friend Siobhán shifted Andrew in Galway years ago and then went out with his best friend ’.😀

Why not leave those in the editing mix? Because we know perfectly well those conversations are happening. It would be more fun than the monumentally pointless ‘church’ task involving riddles an averagely competent 8 year old could solve. The tasks need to be fun to watch, and involve people running around in woods or at least singing backwards nursery rhymes from creepy dolls down a phone!