The Traitors
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This first season ofThe Traitorswas damn fine television.
What we also have is an utterly deserving winner in Cirie Fields.
She talks about that and much more in herVulture exit interview.)
Shes mad at him for his gag about being recruited by the traitors and turning them down.
Cirie tells Arie that he is her boy and that they both need to worry about Christian.
Arie asks if he is always this excited to kill people, and Cirie practically shouts, Yes!
as if they feel like one day his story will be turned into a Ryan Murphy Netflix series.
She just shows Arie the danger and tells him he can make his own decision.
She knows the most power comes when other people fall behind her willingly.
We find out Stephenie was murdered, much to Ciries chagrin.
But with Arie and Christian wanting her gone, she was outvoted among the traitors anyway.
Your girl Brandi was onto this guy from the jump.
Why not venture to take him out sooner?
On to the challenge: Everyone is taking it seriously, including Kate, who comes to play.
How do we know?
She takes off her boots.
This is getting serious when our diminutive yacht stewardess willingly gives up an extra three inches.
The challenge is to avoid a bunch of lasers while stealing artwork for Cummings Scottish neighbors or something.
Going into the roundtable, Christian is convinced everyone will vote for Kate with him.
He knows he has Quentins vote and probably Andies, but anyone elses?
When they start talking, Cirie immediately goes after Kate, who is not her target at all.
This is sort of genius because it allows Kate to be the first to defend herself.
It also allows Kate to target Christian so that Cirie doesnt have to be the one to do it.
She doesnt want to come across to Arie as if she cant be trustworthy.
Oh, Arie, we have seen into your future, and you should not have believed this move.
Her best question to Christian is whom he would vote out next because there would be another banishment.
We know where a few of the votes are going.
Kate and Arie are after Christian.
Christian and Quentin are after Kate.
The episode ends right before we learn who Cirie and Andie are going to vote for.
We know Cirie is voting for Christian, but what will Andie do?
Normalize it, baby.)
Christian is, of course, a traitor.
Then he says hes sadder he didnt get the money.
This means that, once again, Quentin is on the wrong side of the vote.
This format is not easy.
Its built so that the faithful have a much harder game and will get things wrong all the time.
That said, Quentin is especially bad at it.
He hasnt voted for one traitor.
He hasnt even had one of the traitors names in his mouth.
Who needs consequences when people are getting murdered twice a day?
Just really commit to looking for the $43,000!
After a victory, a banishment is about to go down.
Arie has enlisted Kate in this plan because Kate knows that Andie and Quentin are gunning for her.
Valid point, Ms. Chastain, if ya nasty.
This leaves Cirie in the power position of the swing vote.
Um, Quentin, are we watching the same television program?
Kate hasnt been able to swayanyonethe entire game.
Cirie decides to keep her favorites and cuts Kate loose.
Um, what happened to the day before, when she believed in her gut that Kate was faithful?
Quentin says he is shocked Kate is a faithful.
Arie is legitimately more shocked because he thought he and Cirie had the plan all sorted.
He asks the final four (including three people of color we love to see it!)
Arie, Andie, and Quentin all want to stop the game.
Okay, Arie, I get, but this is Andie and Quentins final stupid move onIdiot Mole.
It seems as if it was made clear to the players that there were three traitors.
(In the U.K. version, the number of traitors was always kept intentionally vague.)
If you count them up, that is one … two … um, wheres three?
Folks, you havent gotten the third traitor.
Can you not do simple math?
Then the most shocking thing in the game happens.
Arie commits seppuku on his own sword of deceit and takes himself out of the game.
And she better give him at least $10,000 because he literally handed her the game.
I need an interview with Arie because I need to know why he did this.
Also, if he hadnt, how would it have gone down?
Was Cirie confident she could convince Andie and Quentin it was Arie?
Before Arie was a decent traitor, he was a horrible faithful.
His mediocre gameplay got him to the end, but it sure shouldnt give him that money.
Seeing the final debate would have been fascinating.
Yeah, thats the only look I think weve ever gotten from Quentin.
Cirie tells them she loves them both but she loves her family more and had to do it.
But she deserves every cent for giving us an amazing and unforgettable season of reality television.
Heres to Cirie, a traitor in the game and a giant star in life.
