The Traitors: Australia NO SPOILERS

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Thread to discuss Australian version of The Traitors.

No spoilers about banishment and murders please.

General discussion about it and differences etc to UK version.

Sorry UK and Aussie version! Not US.

Hi I’m binge watching this. The contestants are different from the uk ones. Far less emotional and tearful when they get wrongly accused. Same psychology though. Pack mentality. Everyone declaring they can spot the signs of a liar straight away. How good they are telling when someone is not being honest etc etc. Falling for the traitors bait every time. Ignore what happened over the course of the week and just picking up on some random ‘body language.’ Fascinating stuff. The players are all much calmer and detached. They seem far less bothered about being accused of being a traitor than the uk contestants did.

I agree that Claudia is a far superior presenter to Roger.
I prefer how the uk version let us get to know the contestants better. I’m not invested in any of the Australian contestants so far. I couldn’t care less if a traitor wins. In the uk version I desparately wanted Aaron to win and Wilf to get outed.

A thing that did bother me was in both the UK and the [Aussie] version, when the players had nothing to go by in the early stages of the game, their first instinct was to banish a brown man. Until the white men drew attention to themselves by being obnoxious or weird or giving then a "proper" reason.

Yes, I ponder about this a lot in terms of reality tv. I started typing out a whole response, but (as a white person) feel very uncomfortable expressing such thoughts and deleted.

I am not a white person, so maybe it struck me right away. :) I also have a son only a few years younger than Midy. Anyway.....

I got very invested in some of the Aussie contestants by Episode 9... Can't say why as spoiler.

Yes, that's about when it picked up for me. I'm glad I persevered with it.

I'm on ep 5!

I prefer how they're not all acting like when you get murdered you actually die in real life.

Claudia is a better presenter but is that just because she's a national darling? Is the Aussie presenter well known? Definitely more atmosphere in a Scottish castle but the Aussies can't really compete with that.

I think maybe 4 traitors is a better start number than 3?

"Haters gonna hate, traitors gonna trait" 😂

I know I’ve never seen CW in anything as I don’t watch Strictly etc but she was an excellent presenter in Traitors UK (with fabulous knitwear), I don’t know who this Roger chap is but he’s very wooden

I preferred the Australian version.

I finished this the other day.

I prefer the Australian one (but hate the gimmicky way it's filmed like an American reality show).

Apparently it got terrible ratings in Australia.

Out of all of them, Midy seems the most obviously intelligent and methodical. If I were a traitor he'd be high on my list.

Might try and find the Dutch version, the original De Verraders

Yes!!

I've only watched 2 episodes but Chloe is the best thing in the show.

She's excellent entertainment!

I've made a spoilers thread so we don't inadvertently ruin things in this thread :)

www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/4710807-the-traitors-australia-spoilers-aplenty

Argh this is hard because I'm on ep 6 and want to discuss it but can't discuss it here nor do I want to join the spoilers thread 😩 but safe to say I'm enjoying the general brutality of the approach. And the players seem so much more switched on

The players are brutal and quite matter of fact about it all.
I found Chloe hilarious.

Same!! On episode 6 too, half way through

So I’ll try and be cryptic here.

There is one traitor who is super calculating and I actually wish the UK contestants would have been more like that person. Everyone in the UK one voted with their emotions and were horrified and cried if someone voted for them. In the Aus one when they march up and tell they’re thinking of voting them off. It’s fascinating! They probably would see our UK lot as a right bunch of Jessie’s 😂

I've made it to episode 7, skipping the challenges. I just don't care about them and any big moments are always recapped in the next episode anyway. They've also doubled the number of challenges with an extra one to win a shield. Glad the UK one didn't do that. I get they're important for team bonding, but the challenges are tedious enough for viewers without a double dose.

The editing is also bombastic and American, with so much spliced dialogue and people edited to give DARK SHIFTY LOOKS during probably innocuous conversations. The music is also so dramatic without any of the campness of the UK one.

Felt like old times again hearing "I'm 100% faithful". It's interesting to see the same patterns occur as in the UK banishments - too emotional, too unemotional, too loud, too quiet, etc, anything out of "normal" ranges puts a target on your back.

Not really rooting for anyone because I still feel like I don't know any of these people. It's interesting, though, how different the responses of traitors have been when caught... I can't imagine the reaction of the first traitor happening in the UK version at all. They look happy to be caught when they see the reaction of the others. The psychology of the game must have done a number on the poor UK contestants because they were ride-or-die with their roles till the bitter end.

Also... who the hell is Paul and what did he do to offend the producers?!?

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Also... who the hell is Paul and what did he do to offend the producers?!?

I'm still confused by this. I remember being shocked when I heard him speak in a British accent for the first time as he was hardly in it at all (in fact, maybe that's the reason - he's a Brit!?)

The editing is also bombastic and American, with so much spliced dialogue and people edited to give DARK SHIFTY LOOKS during probably innocuous conversations. The music is also so dramatic without any of the campness of the UK one.

I agree with all of this.