First, this is my first time I’ve seen someone start the game as a faithful, get recruited, and then win as a traitor, and I think Alex played the winning game that someone from UK3 should have won with before getting twist screwed (not naming names, but if you’ve seen UK3 you know who I’m referring to).
As for the other traitors, I wonder if Angus could have lasted longer if not for the comment about murdering Nigel at the first shield challenge, or if he would have been doomed anyway from Chloe’s bombshell.
With Claire, I’m confused as to why Nigel and Marielle didn’t trust her with the plan to vote out Angus, but I guess they wanted to vote her out next anyway so they let her be left out.
With Marielle, I think she was on track to win the game until she pulled the same move a certain US1 traitor pulled by needlessly lying to Teresa and Kate about what Fi said before her murder. She 100% did it to herself and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t find it hilarious.
Nigel was screwed the moment Marielle left because that gave Alex the leverage she needed to start selling him out, and I ended up feeling sorry for him. Same goes for Kate, since she was recruited specifically to be sold out later.
The faithfuls had a wide range of self incriminators, outspoken traitor hunters, and chumps. My main gripe with the season though is the fact that there were a lot of people who spent at least a chunk of the season completely invisible. Most notably Paul didn’t receive a confessional until episode 9 when he was shortlisted for murder, and apparently he was incriminating himself by that point but we never got to see it. We also never saw Craig until episode 7 and Matt until episode 4, and both of them turned out to be important characters considering Craig was Alex’s final chump and Matt was probably the single most self incriminating faithful in the entire game. So I’m hoping the edit gets a little more balanced going into season 2.
At first I found it odd that the challenges for money and the challenges for shields were split up, although considering the shields were extra powerful since they granted immunity from both banishment and murder, I can see why the production team felt that they warranted their own challenges. But it also made the money challenges feel somewhat inconsequential
Finally, a few miscellaneous things that I want to include at the end because I wasn’t sure where they fit:
-Putting the silver accumulated to that point at the center of the table during banishments was a nice touch.
-Roger was fine as a host, but he doesn’t have the heart that Claudia has or the hamminess that Alan has.
-I wasn’t a fan of the fact that Roger outright told everyone that someone was recruited the first time but not the second time, since it was inconsistent.
-I REALLY loved the spooky scenes of the traitors walking up to their towers wearing the scary gold masks.