Review: The Traitors, "A Dysfunctional Family" | Season 3, Episode 6
Is THIS the week the show's drama is going to be outside of the traitors? (No.)
“If he gets voted out, are we even going to notice?”
The thing about this game is that there’s really no attempt at narrative balance. The show is called The Traitors, and they carry disproportionate weight in the narrative. That means that there’s a disposal quality to the faithful, and the casting somewhat reflects that: this isn’t to say that the cast was full of dead weight, but there does kind of need to be some cannon fodder for the premise to work.
Some players are just not going to take up any oxygen: Britney says the above about Ivar, who is the most superfluous contestant, but there are others in the same boat. Bob H. was well-liked around the castle, it would appear, but I don’t think he was really playing the game in any meaningful way, so it’s hard to get worked up over his exit. It feels a bit arbitrary, beyond the idea he was someone who was trying to throw suspicion onto Rob but not the person most likely to make the move, but that’s fine: we tuned in …
