The Traitors promised a lot but it is no Squid Game – it’s just a damp squib
thesun.co.ukNEARLY six episodes into BBC1’s new parlour game The Traitors, things started to look up when Claudia Winkleman announced some of the contestants were going to be “buried alive” in Scotland.
Great, I thought, we can end this farce before the World Cup quarter-finals begin. But then, just as I was mentally piling up the bodies and kettle chips, Claudia offered them an escape route and distress signal. “If you’re underground and can’t take it,” said the host: “Shout ‘HAGGIS’ and we’ll get you out.” Yeah.
Haggis! On account of them being in Scotland. READ MORE ON THE TRAITORSCOPYCATS The Traitors in 'copycat' row as fans all make the same complaint about BBC hitUNFAITHFUL The Traitors fans left FURIOUS after contestant lets slip major spoiler A minor act of condescension which wouldn’t have bothered even a prickly little customer like me maybe ten years ago.
But this is the BBC, now the wokest and most hypocritical broadcaster on Earth, and you know as well as I do that, had they filmed this series in the West Indies, there’d be as much chance of the contest-ants shouting “Jerk chicken!” as there would Lady Susan Hussey presenting the next five series and partnering Johannes Radebe on next year’s Strictly.
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