BBC The Traitors final review: 'I found myself rooting for everyone and no-one'
Four weeks. Twelve episodes. An agonising wait of over ninety million zillion years in between each one. And then, finally, after all we’ve invested, a BEYOND thrilling climax… that we almost cannot bear to watch.
Unlike last year, when good HAD to triumph over evil (ie Aaron had to beat Wilf) or the world would literally end, the finale of this series was more confusing. I found myself rooting for everyone, which really means rooting for no-one. But then I reminded myself that this isn’t life, it’s a game show, and there can be no denying who has played that game the best, consistently since day one. It had to be Harry.
It was also, obviously, GOING to be Harry, because Harry had said it would be Harry and everything Harry says always comes to pass. The last part of the show, again featured the world’s campest barbeque – this time indoors, because of the great British weather – with only Harry, Andrew, Jaz and Mollie left. Mollie had been completely suckered in by Harry. J
az – who has spotted Traitors repeatedly throughout but never had the balls to back himself – had finally plucked up the courage to tackle Harry at the final round table. Although he recovered his composure quickly – natch – this was the first time we’d seen him rattled, stumbling over his words, unsure. Would Jaz finally come through at the last moment and defeat the champion???
After a truly insane moment when Andrew went absolutely rogue and tried to take Harry down, he was dispensed with, Harry not even breaking into a sweat. And then there were three.
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Claudia (SPARKLES!) announced that the final vote wouldn’t be counted until everyone was happy, which seeing as Mollie was currently sobbing over her board, seemed like it might be a while. Harry was obviously going to vote for Jaz. Jaz was going to vote for Harry. The outcome of the entire game was all down to sweet, gullible, weeping Mollie. We saw her write an H. HARRY STARTS WITH H!!!! She looked up at him and mouthed, “It’s not you?”
“It’s not,” her very best friend and confidante mouthed back, without hesitation. And so, she rubbed out her H. She wrote the word Jaz.
And we were left with the prospect of the right guy winning – come on, he deserved it – but in the process, we were going to have a front row seat for the moment a hopeful young girl lost all faith and trust in mankind for ever.
“I am… and I have been from the start… a Traitor,” Harry told her moments later, and she stared at him in teary disbelief, shock and confusion before storming out, presumably never to be seen again – by him, anyway.
The show ended with Harry toasting his £95,150 win with champagne, and gloating about being the best Traitor ever, which in fairness, he probably is.
“I promise I’m a good guy,” he told the camera at the end. And come on, what reason do we have to doubt that? Anyway, never mind him, WHEN IS SERIES THREEEEEEEEEEE?????!!!!
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