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Evening Standard
El Hunt

The Traitors finale on BBC One review: weak Faithfuls, bad twists... is the show losing its spark?

The Traitors finalists Leanne, Jake, Alexander, Charlotte, Francesca. (BBC / Studio Lambert/PA) -

Well, that was a slightly underwhelming finale, wasn’t it? Despite transparent attempts to drum up additional drama by shaking up the format, a cast of fairly inept Faithfuls and a last minute curveball that rendered almost all strategy useless prevented The Traitors’ third season from feeling like a classic.

“I’ve never burned a secret before,” stammered Frankie in the opening moments of the final, torching the note she just received at her and Charlotte’s secret Seer’s dinner party. By inadvertently exposing her most nailed-on Faithful as a fraud, Frankie has changed the entire course of the game, and upped the Faithfuls’ chances of victory tenfold; if she can dodge Charlotte’s impressive waterworks and valiant attempts to throw her under the bus, that is. As for the final outcome, you’ll have to watch yourself to find out who claims victory in the end.

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