It is time for me to confess — I have betrayed The Traitors. Or rather, I was never faithful to begin with. With 11.7m people watching, I feel like one of the few people in Great Britain who has never watched an episode in its entirety. But that means there’s 57.5m of us who only have a hazy idea about what goes on inside that castle.
Even if you’re not tuning in, it’s now such a pop culture behemoth that you simply can’t escape it. For several weeks of the year I am doomed to blag my way through conversations about the heroes and villains of the series. Every pub trip or long car journey bluffing my way through gossip and hearsay, afraid of being rumbled like a proverbial Traitor.
