Although it aired at 8pm on New Year’s Day, more people watched the first episode of The Traitors series three than watched the Coronation Street Christmas special and Mrs Brown’s Boys Christmas special combined. If you’re one of the more than five million who tuned into the treacherous TV show on Wednesday, then you already know why: it’s more special than any special could ever hope to be. Since its debut in 2022, the reality show has become event television, stuffed with banishments, back-stabbings, murder and mayhem, not to mention, this year, a woman who is inexplicably pretending to be Welsh.
To me, The Traitors makes January feel survivable. What did we do before it existed, when we were ripped from the womb of Christmas and thrown into a world where it was always winter, but never Traitors? I shudder to recall. I am a 100 per cent faithful fan of the show; I’m in group chats that total 300-plus messages over the duration of a single episode and am more than prepared to cancel Friday night plans in favour of sitting on the sofa. This is why I feel qualified to claim that one aspect of The Traitors absolutely sucks: its overuse of cliffhanger endings.
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