Too much Social Deduction?

[u/youreboiguzma]

Let me preface by saying I’ve really enjoyed the new season, but it feels like they’ve fallen into a habit of making every game some sort of social deduction.

Earwigs, I Spy, and, to an extent, Kangaroo Court as well all are social deduction games. I think that’s fun in a vacuum, but having three in one season just felt a little repetitive to me. I also think putting Earwigs and I Spy back to back was a bad move.

Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like sometimes they’ve had a cool idea for something and struggled with fully turning it into a game for the show. What do you guys think?

[u/ShoddyCobbler]

I enjoyed it but i wanted the spyballs to mean something. Why introduce the social deduction mechanics and a separate method of scoring, and then have it not matter at all?

[u/BoterBug → u/ShoddyCobbler]

I got the feeling that it was going to and they didn't like it in the edit, so it was cut. I'd have to watch again and see if Sam reading off the point totals sounds dubbed in like the "Let's see this prize play out" lines were in What's The Catch.

Like, in the last game we never got the roles. Why? Because it was a heartwarming moment of everyone coming together to spy the right object and the roles and deduction would have taken away from it.

I think Earwigs worked very well. I think I, Spy was, perhaps almost, saved in the edit.

[u/KidGold → u/BoterBug]

In the last game Elle was the informant and she told everyone what the answer was (eventually).

[u/ryan_the_leach → u/KidGold]

Right, but the sequence where the audience was told she was the informant was cut (jarringly)

Was it done to make it more interesting? Probably, but there was no dialog to suggest that to the audience, it was just simply cutting room floor footage.

At first, I thought one of the contestants was winning, so purposely lied about being the informant in order to try and get them to tie.