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I was perhaps in the minority believing that The Traitors shouldn’t have completely jettisoned normies from the American game, which robs us of the opportunity to experience great dramatic clashes between reality television demigods while mere mortals work to wedge their way into the pantheon. This produces some particularly fun dynamics that become immediately apparent in the second season’s opening scene: As the contestants are being shuttled to the island by speedboat and the camera cuts between the fresh-faced normies belting out their take on standard reality-television quips (“so how do you feel sitting next to a future multimillionaire?”), we eventually land on some poor midwestern soul named Luke trying his best to flirt with Shallows, she of the famed Black Widow Brigade. In the same way that, say, a hostage negotiator might conceal their professional background to manage how others may perceive them as a threat (as in the case of The Traitors ’ first Australian season), the reality vet has to be tactical in revealing who they are … and how to handle their business if a normie who recognizes them brings it up.
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