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Untangling The Traitors’s Opening Twists


What that new rule — and those new players — mean for the rest of the season.

After Alan gives his introductory remarks with customary flair, he dismisses the hooded minions … but one remains and is unhooded to reveal the baseball-cap-topped visage of Survivor ’s Boston Rob Mariano. Some of the men eventually get shamed into stepping off the boat (Sam Asghari and his little spit curl, for one), but it is overwhelmingly the girls, gays, and theys (including Bobs Harper and The Drag Queen) who ultimately volunteer to sacrifice themselves. (Indeed, the last decade of Big Brother strategy has been greatly influenced by Derrick’s “Hitmen” alliance and their structure of a small central group with each member recruiting an ancillary ally to keep them insulated.)

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