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timeHe is a secret traitor! Lawyers battle! Fiona yelled “I accuse!” Confronting accomplice Rachel! We are now halfway through traitorSeason 4, so far, has been a throwback outing. This time around, however, there was only one minor issue that dampened my viewing pleasure slightly. My confession: I simply couldn’t tell the difference between the vast majority of the young male contestants.
Matt. Sam Reese. Adam James. Every time, I listen to the show, I hear these names discussed in hushed tones about who exhibits “rebellious behavior” and who doesn’t, and then is completely unable to match them up with the right twenty or thirty-something guy. To me they just looked like a handsome, somewhat affable young man in a cute knit sweater.
this particular and only person traitor I could several times manage to pick out Stephen from this near-homogeneous gang. That’s mostly because, playing the traitor, he gets as much screen time as all the members of the Loyal Boy Band combined (thanks especially to the sad, divorced-kid expression he delivers during Fiona and Rachel’s slanging match). Plus, he has a great pair of glasses.
I’m not the only one who sees twice (or three times, or four times?). “There were about four 20- to 35-year-old white males and I couldn’t tell the difference between them,” one viewer admitted on Twitter/X as the game began. Another had similar confusion, writing: “When half the people traitor [contestants] They were all white men in their 30s and you couldn’t tell any one of them apart. ”
In the process of writing this article, a colleague also admitted that they initially confused Matt and Jake, a confession that only made me really wonder: Who is Jake? There’s another person wandering around traitor I somehow completely missed this castle? Further research reminded me that he was actually “The Man with the Earring.” So I tried a similar approach to the rest, matching each Contestants with clear and/or memorable characteristics.
Sam, who was evicted last night, had the vague title of “Account Manager” and looked a lot like Traitor exposed Host Ed Gamble. Rhys, before he was murdered and sent to the Great Place traitor Castle in the Sky, I cried a lot. Before Adam was knocked out, he began calling himself a “ghost hunter.” In one of the nighttime videos, Matt does a handstand in his pants as the traitors consider who to kill next.
At first, I thought this strange pain (can we call it loyalty blindness?) would wear off after a few episodes and a sense of familiarity would begin to set in. Yet two weeks later – despite my helpful cheat sheet of defining characteristics – it’s still a struggle.
This isn’t the first time some similar-looking contestants have caused mild confusion. Back in season two, blond true believers Charlie and Evie made some viewers do a double take. “traitor “Viewers were shocked to discover that lookalike contestants Charlie and Evie are different people,” one caption read. “For the first time, it’s revealed that Charlie and I are actually two different people, not the same blonde,” Evie jokingly wrote on Twitter/X after a fraught roundtable scene.
Perhaps my question seems especially obvious since this season follows celebrity traitor;Due to the nature of the show, we don’t need to invest much mental effort in identifying the contestants since their numbers are already known. Maybe this is just a damning indictment of my confused brain, which has apparently gone into some sort of shutdown mode in January (perhaps in protest of the glut of reality TV I’ve forced it to watch lately).
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Or maybe just discovered that all the similar looking guys defied the odds and stayed in the castle together for longer than could reasonably be expected based on the numbers? (Perhaps this is the inevitable flip side traitor player tendencies Voting out minority contestants earlyseason after season. )
This is not a complaint against these specific players. I’m sure they’ll all get time to shine in later cuts; maybe, for some of them, their big moments haven’t come yet and we all enjoy a slow burn traitor Success story.
But it’s also worth remembering that the show’s strength has always been its willingness to step outside the usual reality show mold, particularly in showcasing talented older actors who seem to have memorable backstories and rich life experiences (just look at how much drama Fiona, 62, stirred up from the moment she donned that red cape). It’s this distribution of roles, rather than doubling down on one particular group of people, that sets traitor Except for most actual fares.
Hopefully the producers will keep this in mind next time. In the meantime, maybe they can urgently release some kind of tie-in “Guess Who” board with names and faces that I can look up during the roundtable and flip down when someone is eliminated.
Traitor airs tonight on BBC One at 8pm