So it's a great concept, put a group of strangers in a stately home and get them to do tasks for money. One group are faithfuls so they feel all self righteous while some are forced to be traitors. The traitors need to carefully murder people in the night without being suspected as a traitor. This is done by a nightly meeting/witch-hunt around a table every evening. There are two flaws and these are traditional to most games like this. Firstly there's the hated protections the producers put in to fix the results. This works by letting everyone be eliminated as per the format and then one person gets singled out who can't be allowed to be subjected to these rules. It's been used in everything from X factor to Big Brother, but suddenly turns a fair and fun competition into an absolute farce. Producers should not interfere, it doesn't add drama it just makes the program into a fix. Maybe the person in question is likeable/hateable maybe they are an actor the show bought in and can't be eliminated because they are being fed information by the producers. Either way, it should stop. Have confidence in the cast delivering the format to the rules. Second fault is similar to the first, a good idea was to add the option of seduction to the traitors this increases the chance of the traitors winning if someone joins. It's not a fault but giving people the choice was never going to work as the traitors are hated by the pious faithfuls. So by having the choice they are naturally going to refuse, so why allow them the choice, again it probably goes back to the original flaw. The fact that they have recruited an actor who is being paid to be faithful and influence the group according to the producers decisions.
Review of The Traitors UK
