It was heartbreak and shock sufficient for everybody after Boston Rob’s betrayal of fellow Traitor Bob the Drag Queen triggers an unprecedented fallout that tears aside Devoted alliances … and presumably the Traitors themselves.
With one banishment, Survivor legend “Boston Rob” Mariano might have torn this season of The Traitors past its breaking level. The fallout from his betrayal of fellow traitor Bob the Drag Queen was as stunning because it was entertaining to observe.
By this level, everybody is aware of how Boston Rob performs these competitors exhibits. He’s ruthless, domineering, and controlling. So it is no shock that he took the reins of the sport on the merest trace of a risk from a fellow Traitor, triggering Bob TDQ’s early ouster.
It is unprecedented within the present’s run thus far for a Traitor to nearly instantly activate considered one of their very own. Normally it is a fairly tight cabal, working collectively for no less than a short time. In spite of everything, the extra Traitors there are, the extra different Traitors there are for all these Faithfuls to suspect.
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Even Rob knew he was going to have to enter some fairly heavy injury management among the many Faithfuls after that transfer. However what about his fellow Traitors, Large Brother icon Danielle Reyes and up to date Survivor breakout finalist Carolyn Wiger?
As Danielle famous after a key misstep throughout this week’s Mission, The Traitors often is the most complex actuality competitors present on tv proper now, no atter which aspect you are enjoying on.
In the event you’re a Devoted, you need to attempt to efficiently hunt Traitors, however not pop your head up sufficient that they’re going to “homicide” you in your sleep, nor do you wish to make sufficient noise that your fellow Faithfuls will begin to suspect you … particularly with Traitors able to gasoline any improper guesses.
However the sport may be even tougher for Traitors as a result of not solely have they got to lie continually about all the things, they should play the position of being a Devoted whereas additionally not being suspected by their fellow Faithfuls. Their solely saving grace is the cannot be murdered.
However that does not imply a Traitor cannot get out one other Traitor, as Rob simply proved final week. But when it could actually occur as soon as, it might occur once more. And the way can Rob keep away from casting suspicion on himself after being so sure Bob TDQ was a Traitor (and being proper).
That was the query Problem beast Wes Bergmann requested to Zac Efron’s brother Dylan, and it was a query that will circle Rob all through the episode. Truthfully, everybody ought to at all times suspect Rob always. He is so good at these video games.
However did he overplay his hand?
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Boston Betrayal
Rob’s betrayal of considered one of his personal instantly pinged on the radars of each Danielle and Carolyn, with neither considered one of them fairly trusting him after that play. He did not assist his case when he instructed them he’d by no means come after both of them … as long as they did not come after him, too.
Fortunately for followers of messy TV, neither of the women was inclined to take that risk mendacity down, so that they each internally vowed to regulate Rob, and doubtless do away with them ought to the chance to rise. The issue is the facility of a seed of distrust.
If Rob might betray them, what about each other? Danielle is simply as ruthless a participant as Rob. The one motive she did not win was the Large Brother gamers in her season noticed how ruthless she was from house earlier than they voted. Their salty votes led to jury sequestering the subsequent summer season.
She proved simply how dastardly she might be by instantly deciding she wanted to do away with Rob. However then she bought a squirrelly learn from Carolyn — who admittedly provides everybody bizarre vibes as a result of she’s such a deeply bizarre particular person. Carolyn is aware of this, however it’s simply who she is and the way she is.
Nonetheless, judging individuals by how they current themselves would show to be a theme all through the episode, with Carolyn’s odd conduct instantly creating much more paranoia in Danielle. However whereas she’s cautious of Rob, she’s much less so of Carolyn, so she determined to focus on the newer alum first.
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It was on the way in which again from this week’s mission — the place Danielle put an enormous goal on her personal again with a key misstep — that she began planting seeds that she suspected Carolyn could also be a Traitor.
“I believe a Traitor is a feminine and nobody’s saying her title. And it is Carolyn. That is my idea,” she mentioned on the journey again to the fortress whereas Carolyn was in a special automobile.
She then introduced the notion to fellow Large Brother all-star Britney Haynes, who shot again, “She’s not succesful.” Danielle was proper in that notion being why Carolyn is such a terrific alternative, however it additionally will make it tougher to persuade others she will be able to pull off all of the nuances of that when she will be able to’t even come to breakfast with out being out of breath and looking out “matted.”
In the meantime, Dylan confessed to Carolyn that Danielle had began placing her title on the market, which put Carolyn on excessive alert. On her strategy to be a part of her fellow Traitors she mused, “Let’s all head into the turret and work out who we wish to homicide — one another!”
Is it attainable for Traitors to win this sport in the event that they’re gunning for one another whereas there are nonetheless so many Faithfuls left within the sport? It is unprecedented territory, however the messiness is just going to get messier because the episode wrapped with Carolyn getting phrase that Danielle is coming for her.
In different phrases, it is an all-out civil battle throughout the turret. Rob has mentioned he will not goal both woman, however he does not actually belief them. Danielle desires each Rob and Carolyn out so she will be able to exchange them with Traitors she will be able to belief. And Carolyn trusts nobody, whereas nobody can fairly get a learn on her.
Honesty, if any Traitor can pull off a victory proper now, our cash could be on Carolyn. Beneath all that quirky fidgety conduct is a fairly sharp thoughts that is extraordinarily underestimated.
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Mission Misstep
The mission this week was a quiz sport that concerned a second layer of competing for Shields to guard gamers from the evening’s Homicide. That is the place Danielle made a key mistake.
Large Brother winner Derrick Levasseaur was first to reply accurately and he selected his personal image for cover. Now, this was a little bit extra sophisticated, too, as there have been solely two shields.
Each subsequent participant might exchange one of many two faces that wound up on a protect, which positively occurred greater than as soon as. Solely the final two footage would truly mirror secure gamers.
With the third appropriate reply, Danielle made an enormous transfer by being the primary participant to not select her personal image. Her logic was that it was unlikely her image would keep, whereas she was additionally wanting to guard the final remaining Actual Housewife, Dolores Catania (RHONJ).
Her reasoning was sound as neither she nor Carolyn had needed to Homicide Robyn Dixon (RHOP) on the prime of the present, however Rob pushed his needs via, saying it will so extra chaos. Let’s simply say, him mansplaining his approach via a turret assembly is not serving to him any!
Sadly, not opting to guard your self may also trigger different gamers to suppose that should imply you are secure … as in perhaps you are a Traitor.
Danielle may need been in a position to speak her approach out of it as soon as, however then she did it once more within the seventh out of eight whole rounds. She once more didn’t give herself a Defend, as an alternative selecting Derrick, who’s image she’d changed earlier.
She mentioned it was to make up for that and present him that she beloved him, however that does not actually make sense in a sport the place you may get murdered every evening and gamers have already been suspicious of her. Danielle nonetheless stored Dolores secure, not changing her image, however even Dolores discovered all of it a however suss.
“Do not you’re feeling like you are going to get murdered, too?” she requested Danielle proper in entrance of everybody. With this, Danielle realized she had “tousled,” dropping observe of all of the layers of this sport.
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Suspicious Minds
All of the sudden, each Danielle and Rob had their work lower out for them, deflecting suspicion from themselves whereas Danielle could not even persuade a fellow BB participant to imagine Carolyn might be a Traitor.
What helped is the sooner seed planted that advised the concept of the three gamers put right into a casket within the third episode was presumably a Traitor who put themselves in there to throw off suspicion.
They’d already gotten former Survivor winner Jeremy Collins out, leaving Ciara Miller (Summer season Home) and WWE alum Nikki Garcia as completely harmless pawns within the Traitors’ video games. And the gambit labored, with gamers nonetheless suspicious of each ladies.
However they have been additionally rising suspicious about each Danielle and Rob, with Wes telling the home that the one approach Rob might know Bob was a Traitor for sure was if he was additionally one. Fortunately, Rob additionally has a robust contingent within the Home who imagine he is utilizing his talent in these video games for the Faithfuls.
He positively had Dylan fooled, who helped him get Bob out final week. “I’ve seemed as much as Boston Rob my complete life. And to have us efficiently get a Traitor? Pinch me, I am dreaming,” Dylan mentioned, not figuring out that dream may flip right into a nightmare.
It was British royal Lord Ivar Mountbatten who truly went and instructed Rob the rumor Wes was spreading about him. “Wes is a really, very harmful participant. He’s good sufficient to see precisely what I am doing,” Rob mentioned earlier than confronting him. Wes, well, lieed via his enamel.
“Rob is greater than seemingly a Traitor. I am simply afraid to place that proof on the market,” Wes mentioned in a confessional.
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Fortunately for Danielle, the Faithfuls appeared to have greater fish to fry, and Rob’s Traitor goal was nonetheless greater than hers, whereas the soiled work towards Nikki and Ciara was simply too sturdy to disregard.
Surprisingly it was Greatest Loser coach Bob Harper who jumped on it on the Spherical Desk, calling it like he sees it. He mentioned that after watching Boston Rob for years on TV, he is aware of his fashion. “You’ll instantly are available and go for one more Traitor to ascertain your dominance,” Bob mentioned.
Rob agreed it will be “badass” to try this, however mentioned he is not doing it. He completely is, although.
The massive turning level within the hour got here when Chrishell Stause (Promoting Sundown) got here as much as Rob and opened up about her rising suspicions of Nikki, who was part of her Bambi alliance with Bachelorette Gabby Windey.
On the Spherical Desk, with tears in her eyes, Chrishell mentioned that whereas she hoped they may nonetheless be mates after the sport, she could not get previous Nikki’s power shift after Bob TDQ’s elimination. As such, she principally spearheaded a landslide vote towards the WWE Famous person.
After Nikki revealed she was a Devoted, solely Dylan had not voted for her — although Britney Spears’ ex Sam Asghari mentioned that if Nikki is harmless, he’ll be concentrating on Rob tomorrow — and the fortress erupted into tears and chaos as everybody scrambled to determine how this had gone so improper. As soon as once more, suspicions turned to Rob.
Ciara, because the final remaining participant to have been put in a casket, is unquestionably sweating, too, however this banishment turned the home into nearly as a lot chaos as was within the turret on the finish of the hour.
Will Danielle and Carolyn once more bow to Rob’s will? Will Carolyn name out Danielle for concentrating on her? Will your complete trio blow up after which begin attempting to sabotage each other’s video games? We’re solely on Week 5 and this sport is a tinder field on the poise of exploding.
We won’t wait!
New episodes of The Traitors drop each Thursday at 8 p.m. ET on Peacock.
