The Traitors fans have been left on the edge of their seats as the popular murder-mystery game heads towards its series finale. The game show sees two teams, the Faithful and the Traitors competing for up to £120,000. Each night the contestants have the chance to “banish” a player, discovering which side they are on.
While the Traitors then have the option to murder one of the Faithful. Television star Richard Osman believes the format however poses a “big issue” to producers. The 54-year-old believes the contestants are more likely to axe people with the “best personalities” rather than the quieter cast members. Richard highlighted communications director Yin, who was the first contestant to be murdered after saying she was an expert at analysing body language.
Speaking on The Rest Is Entertainment, he said: “The big issue with this show, if you’re a producer, is you tend to lose your best personalities very, very early on, because those are the people you would vote out. You never think ‘I’ll tell you who we’ll vote out, the boring guy in his early forties who hasn’t done anything or said anything and doesn’t seem to have any insight into human nature.”.
Co-host and journalist Marina Hyde added: “They don’t get voted out of anywhere. Everyone’s got 15 of them in their office.”. Richard went as far as saying the entire concept of the game “doesn’t really work” as it protects quieter players. He continued: “The lovely thing about The Traitors is that it’s a huge hit but the format doesn’t really work because there is absolutely no reason why you would vote off the stupid people.
