The Traitors has become too mean ...Middle East

The entire concept of The Traitors relies on players turning on each other. If they’re not killing one another as Traitors, they’re wrongly pointing fingers and – more often than not – banishing their fellow Faithfuls. Either way, the game requires friends to betray each other and stop them taking home a share of the £120k prize pot. Tears are inevitable.

Still, this year feels harsher than ever. It’s impossible to get through one episode without someone crying: Elen, Charlotte, Livi, Maia, Armani and Minah have all shed tears borne from frustration at being wrongly accused of a Traitor, upset over banishing a Faithful, or – in the case of the latter two Traitors – as a clever misdirection to throw others off their scent.

There’s always been crying in The Traitors – particularly at the breakfast table in series one – but there’s usually friendship, camaraderie, teamwork and fun to balance out the strife. Three series on however, each time someone breaks down, it gets more and more difficult to watch and I found myself asking if The Traitors has finally become too mean.

Last night, it was Freddie who found himself at the sharp end of Traitor allegations all because of a throwaway comment he made to Maia during a mission. All it took was for the clever Traitors to murder Maia to make Freddie look guilty as sin. Somehow, he avoided banishment, but still the tears flowed. I found it hard to watch as he sobbed into the arms of Francesca, admitting that it’s hard to “know that everyone is talking about you”.

It was tough, too, to see the group gang up on Kas, who had suspicion fall on him simply because he is a nice man and a doctor. “He saves people during the day, kills people at night. It makes sense,” Jake wrongly deduced (which Kas took as a Harold Shipman comparison). Kas, who was ultimately banished, said at the round table that he had already accepted his fate after being “avoided completely” by the rest of the players. As brutal as The Traitors has to be, no-one should be made to feel uncomfortable over a game.

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In any other reality series, we’d accuse the other players of bullying Freddie and Kas. But on The Traitors, such behaviour is pretty much sanctioned in the name of unmasking the Traitors.

At first, I relished the mean streak this fresh new game brought to TV. For too long, niceness had plagued our reality series, rendering them dull and unwatchable. The Traitors changed that for the better – at least that’s what I thought. But three series in, it’s starting to grow toxic.

I still think it’s a fantastic series, unlike anything else on TV. But this third series does feel different – less silly, more sincere. These players aren’t wise to the game, per se; as we’ve already seen with the returning players, the game can – and does – chop and change at Claudia Winkleman’s whim. There’s no way they could predict what’s coming next. But they are all too aware of what’s at stake – a life-changing sum of money.

Their ambition – and rampant suspicion – has rendered them unable to forge alliances, even friendships. These relationships not only helped contestants in the previous two series but also made for better television. After all, last year’s finale was so electric because of how close its final players, Mollie (a Faithful) and Harry (a Traitor), were.

It was unbelievable to us that Harry would betray someone we’d watched him form a true bond with over the past few weeks and take home the cash for himself. With this year’s players all out for themselves – Dan has even admitted as much, refusing to apologise for being “selfish” – there’s no chance of that ever happening again.

The Traitors is a tough game, but it’s also supposed to be fun. Among the attacks on people’s characters and buckets of tears, that campy silliness that made us fall in love with the series in the first place is in danger of being lost. Fazia said it best at the round table: “People have been making this personal. And that’s not nice.”

‘The Traitors’ continues tonight at 9pm on BBC One

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