It was great tv but it just makes me worry for Harriet tonight.

It may take their focus off murdering Jessie I guess.

Roxy is a shit faithful.

Roxy is so annoying. Holy shit.

I guess Harriet and Rachel are goners but PLEASE start kicking out the deadwood.

I didn't mind Roxy to begin with, trying to protect her mum. But yeah the last couple of shows she hasn't been great.

Gutted that Harriet was quite so direct, I mean it was great that she was so fierce but unless something twists dramatically she's made it so difficult for herself to make it to the end

Well that was a frustrating round table

That's two people that have gotten a bit overconfident and blown up their own game - while also both going for Rachel.

I think she's going to get banished before long though.

Yeah I think Harriet just went in too hard in the end and her game went out of the window.

Stupidly as well now everyone thinks its Matt and Roxy, rather than Rachel.

Whilst the Faithful have got 2 Traitors, it does feel like a massive mess!

YAS shield for Jessie.

I always thought that I’d end up doing a Kamikaze move like Harriet did if I were on the show.

It’s a shame Harriet had to go but they always turn on the smarter players when they speak up. I’m glad she went the way that she did, she was still in so much control.

Jessie is pretty much the only player I like now, though Adam is growing because he’s actually more perceptive than he seems. Shame he could go tomorrow.

Matthew is such a dumb player. People were hyping his intelligence at the back end of last week but Jesus.

For all Harriet did there, there still doesn't seem to be a lot of suspicion on Rachel. We'll see if that big stunt was worth it in the long run, but it was certainly fun to watch. Will definitely miss her, but if you have to go, that's certain going out in a blaze of glory and she was absolutely going for the slaughter from the minute she was at breakfast, far, far too direct and smart to last long in the game.

I'd have recruited given there was uncertainty with the shields, quite a risky move to murder.

Harriet's intensity in the church was absolutely fantastic, I was hoping she'd bring that sort of considered energy to the rest of the episode, intense when it needs to be but evidential and considered elsewise, unfortunately she stayed in that mode and started accusing random people like Roxy, going off target from Rachel, while her evidence didn't have the bite I wanted it to have (Fiona vs Rachel was a Traitor-on-traitor, she said that before in a confessional, but didn't in this Round Table). She very nearly cemented herself as a GOAT Faithful there but unfortunately by about halfway through the episode it felt more like she'd had enough and wanted to go.

The game is such that players can really focus on the loudest people in there, often illogically. Would have worked better if she'd gotten a core vote of people she was more sure of (enough of, from her perspective, Sam, Jack, Jade, Faraaz, Jessie, Stephen, Ellie to ensure she wins a vote) to absolutely go for Rachel. Whose survival and lack of heat at this point is quite amazing btw, she must have a really good social game because that is two people now who've gone 'I think Rachel is a Traitor' with intensity, one of whom was a confirmed Traitor, the other someone who'd clearly been watching her for a while, and yet the average one among the rest of them is more likely to go 'idk I think Jade seems more suspicious 🤷‍♂️' based off of seemingly nothing.

Matthew looks in such a precarious position too now, not revealing his questions looks so suspicious (I can't believe that neither he nor Rachel seemed to think of plausible fake questions to talk about prior to the breakfast).

I loved Harriet's piece in the church, but I didn't get why she had to be that extreme at the breakfast table 🫤 She came across completely deranged.

It's a shame, as I actually really liked her up until that point.

Explosive episode though, can't fault it really.

I'm starting to think that Stephen has the best chance. He weathered his storm and then cleverly managed to take advantage of Fiona's self destruction in a way that removed the theory around him as well. He really doesn't seem at all suspicious at the moment, the only thing is whether he's got a close enough relationship with any of the faithfuls that any of them would choose him as enough of a certainty to keep him at the end. I wonder if the likes of Adam, Sam and James will actually win just by being more certain of each other's status as faithfuls.

I think Harriet had decided that she'd had enough - she was smart enough to know that her performance was unlikely to end well, especially as the remaining traitor would almost certainly murder her if she had been successful in getting Rachel. I appreciate that with how it panned out, she would have been comparatively protected via all the confusion around the shields but she didn't know that would happen at the time she chose to throw that grenade in at breakfast. I totally agree with some other comments I've seen online that sales of her book and obtaining fame as an author will have been more important to her than potentially winning a share of the prize. It's just a shame she implicated other people, going out whilst being 100% correct on Rachel would have been a better story for her than going out whilst also waffling about potentially 5 traitors being left and naming other people incorrectly.

I'm guessing the traitors have tried to murder Jessie. They don't know who had the shields so at least writing Jessie would have the added bonus of keeping Matthew believing they were sticking to the agreement. If I were them I'd have just recruited Matthew though I think on the basis that he's just given people quite a lot of reasons to be suspicious and if he's in line to be banished, it's better for Rachel and Stephen if Matthew is banished as a traitor.

What a chaotic episode, I loved it.

Harriet being correct about Rachel but fluffing her vague reasoning at the roundtable was infuriating. I love Rachel but I wanted to see if Harriet could be influential enough to kick out another traitor so implicating herself didn't pay off as no one is even looking at Rachel! Throwing out Matt and Roxy's name too though was an interesting move as she didn't explain why and that's put more heat on them.

The murdering scene was also brilliant. Stephen trying to suss out where the shields were in the third team was intriguing. I had convinced myself Sam had got a shield even though he hadn't so to rule him out on a "he's lying about not having a shield" basis was annoying but I don't think Stephen could do anything other than assume that's the case. I HOPE they've gone for Adam but even if they haven't everyone else will think there's been a recruitment rather than a shield saving a faithful? Breakfast in tomorrow's ep should be spicy to watch!

Matt very likely to be banished tomorrow I reckon.

2 hours ago, Chez Wombat said:

For all Harriet did there, there still doesn't seem to be a lot of suspicion on Rachel. We'll see if that big stunt was worth it in the long run, but it was certainly fun to watch. Will definitely miss her, but if you have to go, that's certain going out in a blaze of glory and she was absolutely going for the slaughter from the minute she was at breakfast, far, far too direct and smart to last long in the game.

I'd have recruited given there was uncertainty with the shields, quite a risky move to murder.

They couldn't have Harriet running around, accusing Rachel morning, noon and night!

Edited January 15Jan 15 by Auld Lang Peen!

Rachel is playing a good game but I really cannot stand her. A lot of the faithful are useless and seem completely blindsided at the moment, I wonder whether that changes. The tide is certaibly favouring the Traitors.

No idea why Harriet also pressed the self destruct button. I wonder after Fiona whether she'd just had enough. Some terrible gameplay from Roxy, Matt and James tonight too. I always think these conversations with the Traitors are a poisoned chalice, similar to the Seer.

Yea Harriet was iconic in the church but that breakfast was a hard watch, she became instantly dislikable in that moment, it's like she thought they genuinely were out to murder her and forgot it was a game. I'm not surprised they banished her, I assume Rachel will go at some point between Fiona and Harriet both accusing her but I'm actually rooting for her now tbh

I'm praying they've picked Adam for murder, we do desperately need to get some of the deadwood out. I can see it being James, Jack and Matt in the final though smh

The first half of this has been the best season by FAR imo but again (I sound like a broken record) I can't see how the next half will keep up this quality if we keep losing all the entertaining characters.

Stephen and Rachel really need to break up the group of Adam/James/Sam/Roxy/Jack/Ellie/Jessie. If this group get further and further then they'll have strength in numbers and vote out anyone not in their clique.

Have to say though I've warmed to Sam over the last few shows. After his massive play against Judy in the beginning, he's taken a bit of a step back.

The clique does need breaking up - it feels like that Traitors are putting out fires each episodes (Amanda, Fiona, Harriet) and is stopping them from being able to murder/ banish people from the clique. Them not being able to murder the other day didn't help either.

I still think the Traitors have made an error here by choosing to murder and not recruit. If Matt gets banished at the round table, I suspect they will just recruit Roxy to throw her under the bus, so maybe they are going with that angle. If he reveals himself as a Traitor, surely they will come back to bite Rachel.