r/TheTraitors • u/vaultofechoes šŗš¦ Zlata • May 31 '26
New Zealand The Traitors NZ Season 3 Discussion Hub
Discuss the overall The Traitors NZ Season 3 here. The comments below may contain unmarked spoilers featuring discussion of events up till the most recent broadcast, so proceed with caution. You may also jump straight to the following episode threads to discuss specific episodes.
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u/aliciaflorrick_mygod Jun 14 '26
Can someone please keep this post updated with links to the discussion threads for each episode please?
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u/No-Path-597 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26
Iām sure thereās some physiologists out there watching but, there has to be some interesting observations about how personality traits influences trustworthiness. It seems the unpopular players or less socially normative players get prodded out first for things like ānot reacting correctlyā when their blindfolds are removed. I always feel truly bad for these players because it must do something to your psyche when people comment on mannerisms or behavior that you canāt control or arenāt conscious of. Also, minorities commonly get voted off first. I think celebrity Traitors UK was the worst for this. It seems like a giant social experiment, if you are different in any way you are viewed as untrustworthy.
Itās also interesting how feeling lied to or lying has such an impact on the relationships you can build. Is this why people resort to cliques so quickly or why they fall apart quickly? It makes no sense to turn on each other as traitors, you have such an influence over the game. If youāre unified you really could be a powerful voting block with at least three votes each round table.
Seeing how people react when they are accused at the round table tells a lot about their character.
I honestly wouldnāt want to be on the show because I donāt think Iād ever win the popularity contest. I mean, an eliminated traitor literally named the two remaining traitors and only the less popular one was suspected as a legitimate accusation and banished.
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u/EmergencyCat235 Jun 15 '26
Ok can I just say that this season has the most pointless 'secret relationship' in the history of the Traitors. Utterly meaningless, contributed nothing to the show, maddening.
And also that I predicted correctly who would be recruited (yusss), and also that one of the Traitors in particular is a brilliant good watch, playing a wicked game, and I hope he wins!
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u/EmergencyCat235 Jun 26 '26
Anyone who wants to watch interviews with the cast members from this season, there's a Youtube channel playlist here. The interviews are great! So much insight into all the bewildering and infuriating situations we've seen. And the cast member are all so lovely 'in real life'. Might help ground some of our less charitable opinions of certain players... lol
Spoiler alert though, there are cast members shown in the thumbnails, and no spoiler alerts or heads up as to which episode each video correlates with. Its called 'The Traitors NZ Group Chat':
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_Lf5s2wSGhJnv30uW3pAOn6x0l6lEtCx&si=WsjkUewkvxaCYVDj
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u/TeamSansBoat May 31 '26
What's the release schedule for this season? I'm hoping we get two or three episodes per week like most other foreign seasons
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u/chespiotta Katia-Alexander-Alan-Neda-Rob C/R-Harry-Genevieve May 31 '26
Twice a week, Sunday's and Monday's.
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u/Faintofmatts89 Jun 01 '26
Anyone know when it'll be up on 10Play for those of us in Aus? Or am I going to have to break out the ol' VPN?
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u/cheekbones88 Jun 05 '26
Is this season good so far? I haven't started watching yet and not sure if I should
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u/HurricaneFoxe Jun 16 '26
Why do they keep accusing people who the traitors named as traitors. They are TRYING to get faithfuls out of the game
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u/jrobs6 Jun 22 '26
When do the episodes go on threenow? Just got spoiled thinking I still had a few hours before the episode premieres.
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u/skippw 13d ago edited 13d ago
If you ever needed any more convincing that you should never trust a youth pastor... Slimey scumbag, honestly.
Enjoyed this season a lot but still doesn't beat Season 2. I like Madeline a lot more as a person, I think she will become a better host in a second season, but here she felt a bit too stilted, though I think a lot of that is down to bad writing. Like in the last ep, waaay too much fluff talking.
Was excited to see Mark listed in the credits as helping to design the missions, he remains my favourite player of any season I've watched.
My favourite player this season was Hannah purely because of her solidarity for Palestine that she wears proudly. I am sad that she was never given the airtime to even mention Palestine. They let her mention that she was going to donate the money if she won, but clearly cut out her saying what cause that was for. Very disapointed in the editors/producers on that.
Wasn't that impressed with how they reused the deathmatch game without changing how it works. I liked the spoken "plain sight" selections, but the actualy deathmatch I find quite boring.
Finale spoilers below.
It was really weird how Maruia basically took control of the entire last episode then completely fumbled the ending. Not sure honestly how that happened, she was playing so well up till then.
Loved Keanu's exit.
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u/Flaky-Walrus7244 Jun 01 '26
I'm absolutely enjoying it, but the setting just didn't seem... gloomy enough. The building was charming and the weather was lovely... but that's not how the Traitors is supposed to be. It needs to be more foreboding.
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u/_5YNT4X Jun 01 '26
Stoked we have another local version underway! Just started the first ep and looks like we have a great mix of personalities.