Can the Traitors survive as a format?
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- Опубліковано 29 лис 2023
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I recently watched The Mole on Netflix and I gotta say i absolutely loved the way they formatted the show.
There’s an ultimate cash pool to fill up, you complete tasks to win money, the mole has to screw up and make people lose challenges to lock out money that goes into the pool.
A good twist is having secret challenges in the main challenge that causes lots of suspicion but adds more money to the bank.
It’s a good give or take situation but the only downside is that there’s only 1 mole. And I assume the mole got lucky because they managed to make it to the finale, but there’s a definite flaw to just having 1 mole.
There’s only 1 season rn with that one host from MSNBC that I’ve been able to find so idk if they’re making more.
It’s not fair how they replace the traitors with a new one as soon as the old ones are discovered. It makes the game pointless cuz why even try?
No i do agree
Even outside of that, theres no incentive to find traitors early so surviving is the real goal while traitors will typically target those that stand out
This format imo punishes standing out a ton and doesnt reward it at all and imo thats a massive problem when trying to make a compelling tv show, its no coincidence theres always a couple non entities that slide into the endgame
I have a similiar issue with shows like squid game challenge and devils plan
they 100% need to add more meaning to challenges.
It's been really frustrating seeing The Traitors make huge progress and several international versions when the format is incredibly basic. (And maybe the simplicity is what has made it popular?)
Not only does getting rid of a Traitor go against the best interest of the Faithfuls, but there is literally nothing to go on when suspecting another player besides 'vibes'.
Even though each round includes a challenge, every player is trying to win money for the pot, which only goes to the winning team. (Despite the show literally being called "The Traitors" it's actually in everybody's best interest to work together to win as much money in every challenge.) Which varies significantly from The Mole, which is definitely my preferred variant on this format.
I kinda feel like this is why Mafia has never quite blown up as big as Among Us was. Because in Among Us, the meetings weren't just going off of intuition, but actual tasks, evidence, and even witnesses.
Maybe the show could improve from adding a third party role, or something similar, but at the moment I'm just frustrated.
TLDR; The Traitors is to The Mole like Mafia is to Among Us in my opinion.
I love this game so much, had a really good Dutch season this year