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That passed me by at the time completely. It's pretty watchable.

I'm surprised no UK broadcaster picked up The Hustler, a Richard Bacon format that aired in the US in 2021, produced by Studio Lambert. That uses a quiz element in which one "hustler" out of 5 players knows the answers and gets to secretly eliminate two players before then having to survive being identified in the final 3.

It's a very weak format so I can understand why it wasn't picked up.

I ended up watching quite a bit of the second Australian series. There is a lot of things I prefer about the UK production such as the host but in the end I enjoyed their series 2 better than ours. Perhaps a slightly shorter series and episode length helped.

The way contestant Sam controlled the game despite almost everyone believing they were a Traitor for the most part was fascinating viewing. Part of their game was also similar to Harry’s but their assent to the final was much less straight forward with them being a much bigger character


Even though I knew what was going to happen, thanks to the earlier post. The ending was very good and probably the appropriate one. I didn’t find it underwhelming

I just finished it and it was both extremely frustrating and very entertaining. I actually think both sides played the game appallingly throughout and there were a lot of flukes rather than intelligent game play that led to the finalists being who they were, but fascinating to watch.

Even though he barely did anything, I couldn't stand the waiter character they introduced whose job was to just pull faces when on screen.

I still much preferred the UK version.