Say what you like about this year’s Traitors – it’s too mean, there’s too much producer meddling, there are too many arguments. But there’s one thing I’m sure we can all agree on: Rachel is playing an absolute blinder.
From the second she was chosen as a Traitor the very first time the players sat at the Round Table, she went into game mode. And she hasn’t dropped her composure even for a second. I laughed when she first revealed her “FBI training”, imagining her at some sort of top-secret boot camp, being interrogated by an excessively nasty American agent in preparation for a reality TV game show. But more fool me – whatever that FBI agent taught her, it’s working. I have a feeling she’s going to walk away with the entire prize pot all to herself.
She is sneaky and manipulative in the Traitor’s turret, inquisitive and suspicious at the Round Table, and – most crucially – friendly and amiable with her fellow players. To be liked is key to surviving banishments as a Traitor: it’s exactly how Alan Carr won the Celebrity version of the show late last year, with his fellow players all claiming that they never suspected him because he “made us laugh”. More than a game of wits or tactics, The Traitors is a popularity contest.
Rachel has been at the centre of this series’ most dramatic moments (Photo: BBC/Studio Lambert)It’s not luck or accident that Rachel still has a place at the Round Table – though given how much heat she’s had on her, it still feels like a miracle. Her first problem came with the reveal of Fiona as the Secret Traitor, who – rather stupidly – decided to declare Rachel’s Traitor status to the entire group. It backfired of course, and Fiona found herself banished at the very next Round Table.
It is baffling to me how the Faithfuls didn’t realise that Fiona’s revelation that she was indeed a Traitor meant she knew who the other Traitors were. If it were me, I would have automatically assumed that she had engaged in Traitor-on-Traitor combat and that Rachel was also a Traitor. I suppose they might have surmised that Fiona might have been deflecting attention away from herself and the other Traitors by targeting a dead cert Faithful – but, from the outside, that seems a little far-fetched. More importantly, it has played directly into Rachel’s devious hands.
History repeated itself when Harriet – one of the most cool, calm and collected Faithfuls the show has ever seen – lost her composure, accusing Rachel of being a Traitor. Harriet was right, of course – but Rachel knew that her showdown with Fiona played out in her favour. She was able to turn the tables on Harriet and have her banished too.
Stephen is an important pawn in Rachel’s game (Photo: Euan Cherry/BBC/Studio Lambert)In tonight’s episode, not one person put Rachel’s name down on their chalkboard as a suspected Traitor. Nor did they write her fellow Traitor Stephen’s name – astonishing given their dangerous decision to murder Jessie, who had gunned for Stephen at the previous Round Table. Her death should have painted his hands blood-red, but, somehow, he got away with it.
Stephen is an important pawn in Rachel’s game, and I’m dubious about whether she will stick to her promise to share the prize money with him. It would be the ultimate Traitor move to take her sacrificial lamb to the very end, just to declare him a Traitor and take the money for herself. For the record, I hope she doesn’t and that she and Stephen share the cash between them – it’s one thing to screw over the Faithfuls, but entirely another to con the person who helped get you to the finish line. Surely she’s smart enough to know that that would make her a villain not only in the eyes of the Faithfuls but the public.
There are only three episodes until we find out whether Rachel really will make it to the end game. Whether she does or not, one thing is for certain – she has been the backbone of this year’s series of The Traitors, pulling the strings from behind her green hooded cloak. For entertainment factor alone, she deserves to win.
‘The Traitors’ continues on Wednesday at 8pm on BBC One
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