Cruelty in the castle? Why this is shaping up to be the meanest Traitors season yet
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Pour one out for Kas. The 33-year-old doctor was finally banished from the Traitors castle in last night’s episode of the show, and what a crying shame that was. Kas was far too precious for this world. He refused to lie and backstab because he wanted to set a good example for his daughter. He kept his head high even after practically half the contestants told him they were gunning for him.
But at the roundtable, it became clear just how bad things were. Kas told fellow players that he couldn’t even play the game properly. "Most people are avoiding me completely," he said. "That means people are making this personal then, and that's not nice," Fozia – who’d literally just joined the game, and apparently sees this more clearly than many – chimed in.
How right she is. The Traitors has always been a gameshow that thrives on discord. That is, after all, the end result of putting people together in a room and telling them to guess who’s loyal and who’s secretly backstabbing them. But is it just me, or does this season feel more personal than others?.
Kas definitely was ostracised toward the end of his time on the show: not ideal, for a format that relies on getting people to plot together in dark corners, and form groups based on their desire to survive. Despite surviving several roundtables, his many brushes with death seemed to mark him out as somebody the other players didn’t want to go near. And though many of them professed to trust him, they still stopped speaking when he entered the room – prompting him to back out, telling people “it’s fine, I’ll leave.”.
