At the outset of the glossy and borderline cheesy but guilty-pleasure Netflix reality competition series “The Trust,” the obligatory Strangers From All Walks of Life have arrived on a spectacular property on a cliffside mansion paradise and are lined up as if they’re in the opening scene of a “Knives Out” film.
The first surprise is the host. Hey, that’s Brooke Baldwin, the longtime CNN journalist who left the network in 2021 and has now joined the ranks of Jeff Probst, Julie Chen Moonves and Jesse Palmer. And good for her, it’s got to be a lot less pressure to explain the rules of the game and swoop in once in a while to announce a nifty twist or host some sort of elimination ceremony.
