[Warning: The following post contains major spoilers about The Traitors Season 3’s first three episodes, “Let the Battle Commence,” “Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Cold,” and “Nail in a Coffin.”]
The Traitors is again, and, sure, it’s so again. The third season of Peacock’s Emmy-winning actuality competitors collection options, as soon as once more, a wide range of actuality tv stars journeying to the Scottish citadel to bask within the glory of Alan Cumming‘s fabulously wild wardrobe and to attempt to suss out who he’s chosen to be the murderers on this thriller recreation. This time, there are some surprises tucked up the host’s silky sleeves, together with some shock (and seemingly unwelcome) additions to the forged checklist and extra cloaked traitors than ever.
Issues get off to an intense begin straight away when the preliminary group arrives and realizes there’s built-in historical past between a few of them. For instance, Danielle Reyes continues to be grudging in opposition to Britney Haynes for giving her the boot on Large Brother; Jeremy Collins and Tony Vlachos aren’t certain what to make of fellow Survivor Carolyn Wiger, and the sensation’s mutual; there are one other batch of Housewives who immediately gravitate in direction of one another, together with Chanel Ayan, Dolores Catania, Dorinda Medley, and Robyn Dixon; and Chrishell Stause is cautious of Tom Sandoval, since she’s friends together with his notoriously cheated-on ex, Ariana Madix.
Cumming places all of those difficult relationships to the check straight away by providing all of them the chance to oust another person within the forged in the event that they’ll solely settle for “Boston Rob” Mariano into the fold. Regardless of the temptation, although, everybody holds the road as a result of it’s too quickly to make a transfer, and, moreover, Boston Rob’s fame as a cut-throat participant precedes him sufficient to make of us steer clear (the satan you realize…).
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As soon as inside, every states their case to Cumming about why they need to or shouldn’t be chosen as a traitor, and his dialog with Sandoval brings on a zinger to finish all of them: When the Vanderpump Guidelines star says he needs to be a trustworthy and solutions within the affirmative that he’d really feel betrayed if he was chosen as a traitor, Cumming quips, “Doesn’t really feel so good, does it?” Ouch.
Finally, Cumming lands on an eclectic group of traitors by selecting Danielle, Carolyn, and Bob The Drag Queen to hold out the season’s murders. (He additionally broadcasts a rule change that’s certain to have an effect: “These of you who make it to the ultimate will now not reveal whether or not they’re a traitor as they depart. To find out whether or not there are any traitors left in my recreation, you’ll rely solely in your instincts. Dun dun dunnnnn.)
As soon as the blindfolds come off, the video games start. Nobody’s enjoying spot-the-traitor more durable than Tom, who’s received a cartoonishly aggressive stare-down recreation however is instantly (and repeatedly) flawed together with his assessments.
Issues get testy for completely everybody, although, as soon as the primary mission begins and requires a set variety of contestants to volunteer to overlook the boat, actually talking, on the varied checkpoints. Not solely does this make them ineligible for the homicide shields ready on the end line (er, circle), nevertheless it additionally raises questions among the many others about why they aren’t petrified of elimination — are they (cue the Alan Cumming eyebrow increase) TRAITORS?! In spite of everything 4 Housewives step up, traitors Bob and Danielle volunteer, too, not understanding they’ve gotten that trustworthy faucet and thus partaking in a lie-loaded dialog with Oscar-worthy performances. Bob Harper and Sam Asghari are the final two gamers to sacrifice their probability at security for the better good, whereas the remainder simply determine to show round and quit one other $20,000 for the pot in trade for valuable immunity — regardless of apparently having loads of time to achieve the final raft full of money. This final resolution sends the Housewives, notably Dorinda, right into a downright tizzy (cue the “Not Nicely B***” GIF for the seven zillionth time). Her flipout makes her a very simple goal for the traitors — and Bob’s thespian expertise proceed at breakfast when he sheds actual, precise tears for the ladies he simply despatched house.
In the meantime, Alan’s treachery reaches new heights when he reveals that Boston Rob isn’t off flying again to Beantown — as a substitute, he’s going to affix the forged whether or not the others prefer it or not, and he’s been chosen as a traitor. And that’s not all! Additionally on faucet to crash the occasion are The Problem‘s Wes Bergmann and Large Brother‘s Derrick Lavasseur.
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The trio of incoming contestants are launched as a part of the second mission, through which they’re positioned in hanging cages for the others to deliver down by retrieving cash. This instantly turns into one thing of a reputation contest, with Rob getting introduced down first, however finally, they’re all rescued in time for the workforce to nab the complete $50,000 for the pot. The newcomers then get to reward whoever they need with shields — however solely after they quietly watch the following roundtable go down, with Wells Adams efficiently focused by Bob the Drag Queen and despatched house. With that, two faithfuls down… Rob protects Tony, Derrick protects Dylan Efron, and Wes opts to defend Jeremy in hopes of getting in good with the Survivors.
As soon as Rob reveals himself to be a traitor to the others, he’s instantly disenchanted by the line-up as a result of they’ll’t appear to get on the identical web page with each other, so he decides to train quiet management and pull all of them collectively. After some heated debate, with Bob the Drag Queen boldly calling his personal suggestion “flawless” and refusing to listen to something in any other case, they determine to ship the very unsuspecting Ayan house simply to weaken the Housewives even additional (and earlier than she might put on her entire wardrobe, the horror!).
The next breakfast is an ungainly affair as Danielle makes an attempt to indicate off her intelligent concealment expertise in entrance of Rob by placing her foot in her mouth repeatedly. Rob can inform that is going to be an issue, however for now, the larger subject is the truth that Dylan has gamely realized that Bob the Drag Queen orchestrated Wells’ elimination, and he’s telling everybody who’ll pay attention about his concept.
It’s not sufficient to sway the most recent roundtable. After a pathetic exhibiting on the funhouse problem, through which the workforce earned precisely $0 for the workforce financial institution, it’s Tony whose title emerges as the primary character of the second — even though he did reluctantly go first within the mission — and is overwhelmingly voted for banishment. Dylan makes good with Bob the Drag Queen, even telling him he’s newly satisfied of his innocence, however he’s not giving up on his (completely appropriate) learn on the RuPaul’s Drag Race alum. Watch this house!
For now, one other trustworthy has fallen, and if that’s not sufficient, Alan decides to throw in yet one more twist: As a substitute of a brand new secret homicide assembly, he needs all 4 traitors to determine on an inventory of three individuals up for banishment, which suggests they should discover a option to sneak off and chat about it with out anybody noticing. And subtlety is just not Crystal’s sturdy swimsuit. Whereas they huddle within the wine room, others begin to understand that there are individuals lacking, and it appears like Gabby would possibly simply catch them within the act of leaving their little hidden assembly place.
We’ll have to attend till subsequent week to see if somebody will get caught, however from these first three episodes, it’s clear The Traitors is popping the stress up a notch in Season 3.
The Traitors, Thursdays, 9/8c, Peacock
