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The Traitors Needs Normies
With mere mortals banished from season two, the game loses out on a grand possibility.
Even by this point, threeepisodesin, the stars from franchises grounded in social-strategic competition ( Survivor, Big Brother, The Challenge) are playing at a whole different level compared to those from the Real Housewives universe, who pretty much are limited to defensive crouches. Being a pro boxer or a British politician is tough and all, but it’s still different from “reality-television personality.” This notion was already established in the first season by Olympian Ryan Lochte, who straddled a curious line of being celebrity in theory but a normie in practice. All of which drives us toward another grand operatic possibility we’ve been robbed of by the normie purge: the chance to see a mere mortal rise to meet the moment, lay waste to the gods, and win the whole damn thing, thus successfully crossing over into reality stardom themselves.
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