The Traitors: the murderers are going crazy

While I do my best to get my house into autumn mood Videoland lends a hand by kicking off the Halloween month with a new season of ‘The Traitors – Halloween’. It’s absolutely perfect when it’s pouring rain outside, the dark clouds are gathering, and there’s even a little lightning here and there. But I won’t be too demanding. This season of The Traitors doesn’t really need all those extras. It seems to have a fantastic, cozy group with many different types together.

It actually starts quite directly with a game. But unlike the games in Expedition Robinson, I find the games in The Traitors enjoyable to watch for a longer time. Because in this program, you can also puzzle along from the couch, instead of desperately trying to figure out who belongs to whom. Even though this episode is mostly about feeling things out, I find it much easier to keep my attention when I can also think along.

As soon as they sit at the table for the first time, and the traitors are tapped by Frank, the game really begins. If I were to be tapped, I know for sure that I would have a crazy smile on my face as soon as those blindfolds came off. A really scary wide joker smile, a bit psychotic. Luckily, I’m not one of the traitors, because I’m just at home on the couch and not at the round table. Those who have been chosen as traitors are Olcay, Niels, and Cherry-Ann. Everyone is quite enthusiastic about the role of traitor, but you can tell that Olcay has a brilliant game plan thought out before she left for the Traitors' castle. She is a bit too enthusiastic and present, she knows exactly what she’s doing. Cherry-Ann, on the other hand, is immediately suspected by Nienke. But when it comes to the bloodshed, the fullest tube is not one of the traitors.

Maik actually gets the most blood spilled, and he is so shocked that he quickly starts shouting that he is indeed a traitor and will kill everyone. Well okay, it wasn’t that bad. But it was a bit panicky, the way he reacted. Hilarious also for that reason, because none of his fellow players could gauge whether the suspicions against Maik were justified or not. While the real traitors decide who they are going to kill, I keep wondering how this game actually works. In principle, the traitors can kill anyone who comes even a little close to discovering that they are the traitors. As a result, no one will ever know who the traitors are. But maybe I’m very naïve. We’ve just started, but I already find it a shame that someone has to leave next week.