The Traitors: New Blood has arrived! Throughout the season, Mike Bloom will speak with someone from the star-studded cast who was murdered or banished on the iconic Emmy-winning reality series.As a writer, Sherry Kuehl knows when to sit back and let the characters drive the narrative. And that’s what she did through the vast majority of her time on The Traitors: New Blood. In the first few rounds, her perspective on the game was not necessarily first-person, given her inclination to stay in the background and not feel the need to speak up if she wasn’t offering something valuable. The pure irony, however, is that one poor choice of words led to quite the unhappy ending.After the second banishment, Sherry openly speculated to Abby Lee about there being at least one man in the turret, saying, “We know there aren’t three female Traitors.” Abby L. was immediately suspicious of the comment, feeling that Sherry was outing herself by revealing how many Traitors there were. What she thought was a major clue turned out to ultimately be a red herring. But that doesn’t matter in the brainstorming session that is the Roundtable. After admittedly being quiet for the first few weeks, Sherry came alive when Abby L. revealed her theory, taking the floor to not only defend herself, but draw attention to Jay Vinnedge. Unfortunately, while she accused the physician of creating a “crockpot of confusion,” it was her game that was ultimately cooked. For the third time, the Faithfuls followed speculation that a Traitor had made a verbal faux pas. And, for the third time, they were wrong.Read below for our interview with Sherry. And check out new episodes of The Traitors: New Blood Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on NBC
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I’m not sure if you typically like to start from the end while writing, but we need to do so here. What was your reaction when your name was being brought up at the Roundtable?You know, you get a vibe. The castle vibes are strong, my friend! You definitely get a vibe. So I knew something was up. I didn’t feel like I was totally blindsided. But I mean, I was just like, “Seriously, we’re stumped by math?!” Two plus one equals three. Alan said two Traitors picking another one. And then historically, if you watch Traitors, the normal number of Traitors is three. If you have more or less than three, that’s called an anomaly. That doesn’t happen. So I didn’t think that three would be quite such a trigger. But, alas, it was. SSo I went in there going, “Oh, this vibe. Yeah, they’re going to come for me.” But I went in there with a to-do list, and the top of it was to say my piece about Jay because he irritated me so much I couldn’t stand it. If I didn’t say something about Jay, I would explode. It needed to be said, and I was going to say it. And we all yelled at him and everything. But I’m like, “It needs to be said in a Roundtable setting.” It’s one thing just to yell at him during a mission. So that was on my to-do list. And then after I said that, I go, “And then I’m sure my banishment journey will be beginning.” I thought I defended myself the best as I could. I’m not going to get angry. I’m not going to lose my dignity over math. Math has brought me down in many areas in my life. Balancing a checkbook, my SAT math wasn’t as great as the SAT verbal; I can tell you that right now. There’s a reason why you’re a writer and not an accountant!Brought down by simple math: Two plus one equals three. But you just kind of know what’s going to happen. Even before people write their little names on a chalkboard, I go, “I’m out. I’m out of here.” So then I just started thinking of ways to make my banishment fun. So I’m like, “Okay, like my outfit, so that’s good.” And I decided I didn’t want to say, “This has been the best time of my life. I love y’all so much.” I was tired of the foolishness. I really felt “do better”! This is the third woman that you’ve banished in a row. So good job there. Can you not see there’s men sitting at the Roundtable? And it’s women banishing women. A guy has never put a name forward. I’m like, what is going on? They needed a stern scold. So, I leaned into all 65 of my years and just gave it to them. I was their mother. I was their grandmother. Do better. It felt good, too. So I’m glad I did it.During that Roundtable, you admit that you do bring names to select people; you’re just very careful about who you choose to disclose information to. You also say that, because of your age, you won’t necessarily jump into conversation unless you feel you’re contributing. Talk to me more about that. Did you go into the castle intending to play that way?Well, once I discovered I was the oldest person there by a lot. I think Joe was the oldest guy there, and he’s 44. And then I had like a decade plus on everyone else. You just can’t go in 100% loud, large, and in charge. You can’t do that. You’ll get Boomer backlash. “Who does she think she is? Oh, great. Mom’s here.” I was really cognizant of that.So I just wanted to go in – I call it “low and smoky.” Get to know people. You learn more from listening than talking, and that would be some other advice I’d give my castmates. [Laughs.] Then I do my journey and slowly release my personality. But I didn’t want to come in full force, so that was kind of my way to go. But then I just got activated after the Arisa thing because I was so mad at myself. Even though I voted for it, I go, “This is stupid. We banish a second woman. What the heck’s going on?” And then you see me have my conversation with Abby. I go, “We’ve got to get some men.” And I was focused on Joe because I was pretty sure Joe was a Traitor.Talk to me more about that. Who was on your Traitor radar by the time you left?Oh, Joe for sure. Because he had the biggest tell. He would just sit down and go, “Wow, those Traitors are really smart, aren’t they?” And I’m like, “No, the Faithfuls are really dumb. The Traitors don’t have to be smart.” And I’m thinking, “Is he seeking positive affirmation for being a Traitor?” And I had a whole wall of Post-it notes in my room, like a murder board. And he was at the top. And then by that time, I was so focused on guys. Come on, we’re gonna get some parity in this banishment situation! So I was very focused on him. But the problem is Joe’s the mayor of Castletown. He was the most beloved member of the castle. So you can’t just go in hard on Joe, or people would think, “Sherry’s crazy. She’s 65. Is she having a cognitive decline episode?” You can’t go in like with Abby L., going, “She said there’s three Traitors.” I mean, you can’t do that. It has to be solid evidence, and it has to be more than one thing to convince people. So that was my plan. Alas, that plan did not get executed. But, if I stayed in the game, that was my plan most definitely.Let’s go to the exact opposite end of the popularity scale and go back to Jay. As you mentioned, you had quite a number of words for him at the Roundtable, outright saying, “You are a detriment to all of us playing this game.” Talk to me more about your perspective on him.He was just a huge irritant and a detriment to us finding a traitor. He was a horrible Faithful. For the record, I love and adore Jay. He is a funny, great guy. He’s a physician in Oklahoma. If I lived in Oklahoma, I would want him as my doctor. I mean, I adore Jay. In the game setting situation, his whole “master of confusion thing,” it was bad. It was just really, really bad. I felt like he was playing very selfishly. I felt like he was playing for himself only, and perhaps for the cameras. So I thought his gameplay was very selfish, and we were all focused on him, like, “Jesus. Oh my God, Jay.” We weren’t focused on the Traitors. So I thought that, if he was gone, then we could reset and refocus. And I said, “I understand people not wanting to waste a Roundtable on getting rid of Jay because we all know he’s not a Traitor.” And another thing that happened is he lost his credibility because he caught Katie. But he had no credibility because of his behavior. Maybe he’s the freaking genius because I got banished and he’s still in the game. Maybe the master of confusion is the way to go, baby!We see you connect with Shane at one point, bonding over thinking a lot rather than talking a lot. Who were you closest with by the time you had left the castle?Oh my gosh, I was close to Shane. I was close to Kriste, although she got that Madeline thing. I’m telling you, that’s what she heard. People argue that’s what she said, that’s what she didn’t say. But I’m telling you, at that moment when Kriste came to me, if she had told me she had seen and been touched by the Holy Spirit, I would have believed her. There was no one more convincing than Kriste, 100% Did I feel just as disgusted with myself when I voted for Madeline, and it wasn’t her? I mean, I felt horrible. And you know what surprises me? I felt more emotional about people getting banished. I mean, it’s just a game. Better that you throw a name out there than it’s you. And I think my Achilles’ heel was being a mother. Because my daughter is Madeline’s age, and I thought, “What if somebody did that to my daughter? Oh my gosh, I would be furious.” She’s so gorgeous, and she would have been great for the show. Maybe a little showmance with Victor, who wouldn’t have loved that? I just felt terrible. And she’s very, very smart. And Arisa, very smart. Both of them were like made for TV. I’m like, “What the heck is going on?” I was very disappointed. So that was my Achilles’ heel, because I cared more than I thought I would care.It makes sense. It’s one thing to regard the players as characters, as you would do in your writing. It’s something else to be so immersed alongside them and get to know them as people.Yeah. And love Shane. We were basically two pieces in a pod. I have such respect for him. Loved Mark; he was the first person I met. I was in the train first, and he came in, and I just thought — once again, it’s the mother in me. I’m just like, “Look at this gorgeous, lovely boy.” And he deserves everything that’s coming to him. And Shane was like so smart, so well-spoken. He’s a thinker. He was one of those, “I’m gonna listen before I speak.” I mean, I think Shane and I, we both are the people who did not need to be the loudest voice in a room. Our philosophy was the same. But I like all the people on the cast. I enjoyed everyone on the cast. So I mean, I have nothing but good things to say about them. Even Abby, we’re grown-ups. She was playing a game. She was throwing out names. So she’s smarter than me because she was still there, and I’m gone. I mean, that’s how you play the game. So maybe my gameplay was heinously off.You said at the beginning of the season that your last book had been a murder mystery. Was there anything from your time on The Traitors that inspired any of your creative works?When you watch shows, and you even when you watch Traitors, you’re like, “How could they be so dumb?!” Okay, well, it’s harder than you think! The castle messes with your mind. It’s the groupthink of it all. And I grew up reading Agatha Christie and all that stuff. But how easily people can be swayed when even logic is telling them, “No that can’t be.”I’ll definitely bring that kind of psychological part into [my writing], because that was an eye-opener. The groupthink was strong, and I was like a member of it. It was not like I was sitting there going, “Oh no!” I like to say that when you get to the Roundtable, 80% of you is just happy that it’s not your name, and then your brain’s only working 20.% So 80% of your brain’s like, “It’s not me, it’s not me, and that’s outweighing the other 20%.
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