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How The Traitors Gamed the Edit
Season two’s strategy of moments-based storytelling helped it win over reality-TV veterans and newbies alike.
As CT Tamburello and eventually Trishelle Cannatella voted to banish MJ Javid and share the money between the two of them, I gasped and swore and laughed in amazement, knowing I was witnessing high drama. That’s not to say there isn’t payoff for those who have been watching these people onscreen for years; I’ve always been compelled by the question of who deserves the title “queen of Survivor,” so it was deeply gratifying to see Parvati and Sandra squash their relatively recent beef and protect each other for a while. We don’t need to explicitly hear that Sandra plans to keep Parvati around longer to ensure her own safety, especially because it’s the same essential idea as what Peter tries with Parv an episode later — or what Janelle attempted early on with Dan.
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