One thing The Traitors has taught me? Life isn’t fair ...Middle East

This review contains spoilers.

Last year’s final of The Traitors, in which sneaky Traitor Harry double-crossed besotted Faithful Molly just as the curtain fell, could hardly have been more dramatic. It was reality TV delivering the high stakes that Hollywood would kill for.

No doubt feeling the pressure to live up to those highest of standards, this year’s twisty finale delivered a different, quieter drama. The Faithfuls might have won, but their victory was anything but clean.

But first things first. The episode opened with the meeting between Frankie and Charlotte that had the nation tearing their hair out since Thursday night’s cliffhanger, wherein Faithful Frankie won the “seer” power, allowing her to reveal one other player’s status. When she chose Charlotte – who happened to be both the only remaining traitor and Frankie’s most trusted friend – I braced myself for fireworks. 

Certainly, Frankie’s reaction to the news when it was delivered seemed to be genuine astonishment. Meanwhile, deadpan Charlotte was quick to remind her that the revelation might be surprising, but it wouldn’t leave the room. Back in the castle, it was Charlotte’s word against Frankie’s, a match that began at breakfast the next morning as each woman laid out their case that the other was a traitor.

Shaken by the conflicting news and breaking off into splinter groups, it appeared that Charlotte might yet talk her castle-mates back from the brink. But as the players convened in the grounds for their last challenge, it seemed that invisible but irreparable damage had been done.

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While there was no open hostility – bar a bit of sniping between Charlotte and Frankie – shaken Charlotte chose to remain on the ground, guiding the other players as they took turns trying to drop bags of cash into a ring of fire while dangling from a helicopter (as one does). Although she helped the players add £21,000 to the prize pot, the dye was cast as the final roundtable got underway and Charlotte was, perhaps inevitably, banished with unanimous votes. 

Here, the final came up against what is both The Traitors’ biggest problem and arguably its most interesting feature – that is, the game offers no rewards for playing it well. Charlotte has been an exemplary Traitor since she was recruited, ruthlessly doing over her fellow Traitors, delivering astonishingly convincing lies to the Faithfuls and always thinking several steps ahead. But despite her best evil efforts, none of this stood her in good stead – from its whiplash rule changes to the arbitrary challenges, The Traitors is not a meritocracy. 

Neither does it reward moral virtue. Back in the castle, four players – all Faithfuls – remained. While they could have voted to end the game there and split the money, the banishments were far from over. After poor Alexander – the nation’s new TV boyfriend and singer of the iconic “spurba yurh yurh yurh” – met his fate, the players voted to banish one final time. Frankie was desperate to prove her innocence – “I promise you as a mother,” she said to Leanne – but whether Charlotte’s earlier lies had stuck or they were just feeling paranoid, Leanne and Jake voted her off. 

With two players left, the game was over, and faithful Leanne and Jake split the prize fund of £94,600. It was hard not to think how close Frankie had come to a portion of it – or how Charlotte might have pocketed the whole thing, had the seer ruse not confounded things. 

That unpredictability can make The Traitors frustrating, but it’s also what makes it most resemble real life. You’ve hardly got time to come up with a plan before it’s foxed: no matter how hard you’ve worked, how smart you are, how pure your heart is. With the castle Traitor-free for the second half, this final might not have had the tension of past showdowns but it had a more nuanced, and altogether darker, moral to impart: life isn’t fair.

‘The Traitors’ is streaming on BBC iPlayer

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