[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 sequence options, as soon as once more, quite a lot of actuality tv stars journeying to the Scottish fortress 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 instantly when the preliminary group arrives and realizes there’s built-in historical past between a few of them. For instance, Danielle Reyes remains to be grudging towards Britney Haynes for giving her the boot on Massive 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 sophisticated relationships to the check instantly 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 repute as a cut-throat participant precedes him sufficient to make people steer clear (the satan you already know…).
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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 devoted 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.
In the end, 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 not reveal whether or not they’re a traitor as they go away. 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 taking part in spot-the-traitor tougher than Tom, who’s obtained 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 numerous checkpoints. Not solely does this make them ineligible for the homicide shields ready on the end line (er, circle), however it additionally raises questions among the many others about why they aren’t petrified of elimination — are they (cue the Alan Cumming eyebrow elevate) TRAITORS?! In spite of everything 4 Housewives step up, traitors Bob and Danielle volunteer, too, not understanding they’ve gotten that devoted 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 larger good, whereas the remainder simply resolve to show round and quit one other $20,000 for the pot in change for valuable immunity — regardless of apparently having loads of time to succeed in the final raft full of money. This final determination sends the Housewives, significantly Dorinda, right into a downright tizzy (cue the “Not Effectively B***” GIF for the seven zillionth time). Her flipout makes her an easy goal for the traitors — and Bob’s thespian abilities proceed at breakfast when he sheds actual, precise tears for the ladies he simply despatched dwelling.
In the meantime, Alan’s treachery reaches new heights when he reveals that Boston Rob isn’t off flying again to Beantown — as an alternative, he’s going to hitch 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 Massive Brother‘s Derrick Lavasseur.
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The trio of incoming contestants are launched as a part of the second mission, during which they’re positioned in hanging cages for the others to carry down by retrieving cash. This instantly turns into one thing of a recognition 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 subsequent roundtable go down, with Wells Adams efficiently focused by Bob the Drag Queen and despatched dwelling. With that, two faithfuls down… Rob protects Tony, Derrick protects Dylan Efron, and Wes opts to protect 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 disillusioned by the line-up as a result of they will’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 resolve to ship the very unsuspecting Ayan dwelling simply to weaken the Housewives even additional (and earlier than she may put on her entire wardrobe, the horror!).
The next breakfast is an ungainly affair as Danielle makes an attempt to point out off her intelligent concealment abilities 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 situation is the truth that Dylan has gamely realized that Bob the Drag Queen orchestrated Wells’ elimination, and he’s telling everybody who’ll hear about his idea.
It’s not sufficient to sway the most recent roundtable. After a pathetic exhibiting on the funhouse problem, during 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 if 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 area!
For now, one other devoted 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 resolve on a listing of three individuals up for banishment, which suggests they need to discover a solution to sneak off and chat about it with out anybody noticing. And subtlety isn’t Crystal’s sturdy swimsuit. Whereas they huddle within the wine room, others begin to notice that there are individuals lacking, and it seems 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