Reviews

This season starts off like any other, and you quickly start to dislike some characters.

Then it quickly gets exciting, and arguably the best player to ever play the game gets the spotlight.

Then it becomes infuriating, and you'll feel like screaming at the screen. You might feel like not watching anymore.

Then it becomes genuinely hilarious, completely unintentionally.

The Finale eposide is something never seen before in any iteration of The Traitors & makes not quitting watching the season worth it!

The ratings are a bit biased because people felt strongly towards the players this season. I'd say it deserves a 7.5 rating, or more, for how unique it is.

TLDR: This show well and truly doesn't deserve an 8.1 (at time of writing).

I usually don't bother writing reviews on IMDb.

But this show should have a 4-6 rating IMO. Watch this if you enjoy senseless drama, like you might watching a guilty-pleasure reality show.

The majority of reviewers who gave 8-10s here seem to have opposite tastes to what I would consider good TV, which include S1-S5 of GOT, Breaking Bad, Succession, House Of Cards, Arcane, Last of Us, Mandalorian, Modern Family, Arrested Development, Scrubs, Narcos, Taskmaster etc.

This is atrocious by those standards.

It should not be classified as a comedy - there's little laughing (if at all) to be had, although it tries (very) hard to deliver humour.

This is a near-fantastical, cringe-worthy, romance drama.

Think of the most cliché characters and plot lines for such a story.

A bland, boring female lead who has near-zero acting range, and who does so little yet seems to have enormously talented, rich people falling at her feet.

A crazy male lead they try to pass off as a "kooky creative genius".

His even crazier ex wife.

A mean rival for her. A grumpy rival for him.

The sidekicks, the other characters of an inevitable love triangle, the ever-loyal, best friend who inexplicably gets so little out of an incredibly one-sided friendship.

One-dimensional, OTT characters.

Meaningless, half-baked, unbelievable plot lines.

Cheesy dialogue.

This show tries to portray artsy folk as being "kooky creative geniuses", but actually delivers unbalanced, unsympathetic caricatures with bad acting and worse writing.

The female lead has terrible acting ability and zero chemistry with the male lead.

I've watched all of S1, and considering even the most glowing reviews said it only got worse after, I will not be bothering with more.

Considering 3/4 of the other reviews are full tens, and the other is a 1, I am writing this to give an objective take based on other cooking shows.

First, it is a properly forgettable show, the kind you don't turn off if it starts running in the background while running chores. So, some quick pros and cons in a list:

Pros: 1. Decent dishes 2. Interesting format 3. Some interesting guest chefs 4. Some money to be won by the winner

Cons: Nearly everything else.

In summary: No explanation of items in the pantry. You can't tell at all what options the contestants have.

Every episode is highly scripted, cut like an action movie, edited to the point of losing all personality, The same lines are repeated by contestants in the episodes. The faces change, but nothing sticks in your mind except for how poorly this was put together.

Unlike another suspicious reviewer here who rated the host a 10, I'd say he's one of the more annoying cooking show hosts. Cool bro-ski talks too much and often over the guest chef.

Don't renew this show and spend the budget on something more worthy.

If you're planning to give this show a watch, consider skipping the final season (6) altogether. It won't feel like the show ended, but s6 doesn't give you that anyway.

You will indubitably find it unravelling all the brilliant scripting, dialogue, plotlines & intrigue of seasons past. Infuratingly, there is no cohesion nor point to season 6. It is beyond fantasy (IMO House of Cards was so good before because it felt very much within the realms of reality). It seems to drag on in dull melancholy at times, yet there's a sense the writers were rushing to wind this up as quickly as they could and really didn't care how it ended. It's disjointed, and the final episode is one of the most disappointing in TV history.

Season 6 is the equivalent of Game Of Thrones Season 8. Just don't.