PEL Presents PMP#171: The Traitors - A Multi-National Reality Game Show Phenom
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn, and Al discuss the American version, and to a lesser extent the British and Australian versions, of this reality game show that originated in 2021 in the Netherlands, based on the party game Mafia (aka Werewolf), plus Survivor-like challenges and a gothic tone.
How does such a simple (stupid?) concept end up creating compelling TV? Are we cruel for liking this show? Is it better suited to hardened reality game show players, or with normal people? What's the role of the host, and is Alan Cumming the best possible one?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a culture podcast. |
| 0:02.0 | A |
| 0:05.0 | This is pretty much pop, a culture podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | Yet someone among our number is a traitor to this podcast and I guess against culture itself. |
| 0:16.0 | Today we're discussing the TV show The Traitors. |
| 0:19.0 | It started in the Netherlands 2021 has been hit in the US, the UK, France, dozen other places. |
| 0:25.0 | US just finished its second season. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Mark Clinton Meyer and I think my colleague Al Baker is the traitor because he's a dirty |
| 0:32.2 | limy. |
| 0:33.0 | Well, I saw Sarah touch her hair at the beginning of this recording |
| 0:38.0 | and I am laughably overconfident in my ability to read body language, |
| 0:42.0 | so I think that it is Sarah. |
| 0:44.0 | Wow how dare you because of your affinity no obsession with horror |
| 0:49.6 | murder if you will Lawrence I believe you are a traitor and should be banished. |
| 0:55.0 | This is Lawrence Ware and I absolutely believe that it's the man who'd made me |
| 1:01.2 | change my entire recording device before this podcast began and it is |
| 1:06.8 | Mark who is a trade. |
| 1:08.8 | All right enough of that. |
| 1:10.8 | Clearly very divided. |
| 1:12.4 | Good bit. |
| 1:14.0 | Do you feel an audience like you've gotten to peer, you know, |
| 1:19.0 | into an active sociological experiment |
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