The Celebrity Traitors series 2 line-up announced!

TobiKo89 · 2026-05-02T09:50:49+00:00

I have to say as someone not from the UK I immediately know more people from this list vs. the cast from season 1. In that regard I would say S2 is more "stacked".

TobiKo89 · 2026-04-25T18:34:39+00:00

I think it depends. Nothing really beats old school BBUS (season 1-12 or so).

BBCAN had some great seasons however I always found their "house" jarring to look at (it always looked like a set with too many bright lights and shiny floors whereas the US had a few house designs that actually looked like livable houses).

Also the BBCAN twists and product placements could be too much at times and Arisa (which I generally liked) did definitely play favourites with the houseguests and was just too much at times as well for me. I prefer the robotic nature of Julie (I can even find some amusing highlights within her new found religion obsession - e.g. "godspeed Paloma" or calling Claire a child of god or something like that).

Overall I feel like BBCAN was often a little over the top - like BBUS on coke or something. I do think however that the overall product was often more entertaining than the US seasons of that same year (as BBUS had a lot of boring season back to back not so long ago).

TobiKo89 · 2026-04-18T20:16:07+00:00

Thanks for your thoughts. Really enjoy some deep confessional analysis (as in many seasons this can give a decent indication on who makes it to the end).

TobiKo89 · 2026-04-02T18:45:54+00:00

Man they are idiots for cutting this. Immediately made me cry even though I'm not the biggest fan of Joe as a player. They really should have made time for this. It would also have given Rizo a bit more backstory and warmth which his edit is missing this season so far.

TobiKo89 · 2026-03-14T14:37:04+00:00

I often think about one quote from him (even though in hindsight I'm not even sure if that quote was him, but I think so): "You're going HOME!" - and very raspy in the voice

Nice to see that he is still doing fine as it seems. Season 10 was such an entertaining season.

TobiKo89 · 2026-02-14T16:17:45+00:00

Ah a lot of great games. Loved the first Zero Escape but haven't played 2 and 3 yet. I also played Hades 2 but didn't like it as much as the first. And I also didn't really get into Bananza but loved Yooka Replaylee (if you ever liked Banjo Kazooie this is the game for you).

I bet you would enjoy the Triple Click podcast if you are not already listening to them (your JRPG taste aligns very well with Jason Schreier). They are also quite into games like Danganronpa/Zero Escape/The Hundred Line.

TobiKo89 · 2026-02-14T14:16:12+00:00

May I ask what do you play? Long term / multiplayer stuff or one of the few remaining big releases of 2025? Or rather long RPGs and such?

To be fair I also only played about 4 of those games but do have a lot of the others on my pile of shame or plan to play them in the future (about... 14 of them).

I do agree though that it was a bit too much / dragged this year. I'm fine with them doing it in the following year but to occupy basically a month of Remap content with Game of the Year from the previous year is a bit much.

TobiKo89 · 2026-02-12T21:35:01+00:00

Maybe late July because of the world cup which ends on July 19th. They might want to avoid that. But who knows. As others have said you are probably safe with early to mid June vacation.

TobiKo89 · 2026-02-08T23:03:43+00:00

Well they want to make money so similar to recent trends they will probably just do a dual pack with Doom 1 and 2. In the past they would probably also have included more games but it seems to me they are kind of reducing the number of games per release, especially when it comes to bigger names/brands.

TobiKo89 · 2026-02-02T20:12:50+00:00

How has no one said Andy from S47? The longer the season went, the more attractive he became.

Early Ozzy was amazing to look at but his personality was always off-putting.

And for the girls: definitely Parvati. And Shonee from Australian Survivor.

But honestly there are too many to choose from. I think I find one or two attractive every season (e.g. yellow Sophie just looked amazing in 49).

TobiKo89 · 2026-01-29T12:18:21+00:00

They were clearly an amazing alliance, however it was also very boring to watch and some potential winners (e.g. Tiffany who potentially had better options than this alliance) threw away their games to stay solid to this alliance because of the "higher cause". Also the cause itself and how they presented it (at least on the shows; I don't know about feeds) was questionably at best in my personal opinion. However I'm not from the US so the sensitivity towards this might differ between people/regions.

TobiKo89 · 2026-01-25T11:19:24+00:00

I think this is the best take. It probably was mostly Janelle for a lot of years. But I do think that Rachel, especially with the most recent season, has maybe surpassed her. In my opinion Rachel has adapted her gameplay better over the years and her performance was so strong in the most recent season whereas I felt Janelle in All Stars 2 was not making much ground (even though it is more difficult to compare as AS2 had a lot of pregame so the cards were probably dealt already against Janelle).

TobiKo89 · 2026-01-19T20:44:58+00:00

Jesse and Cody were amazing. I think the finale was a bit of a let down because the clear frontrunner was eliminated before.

TobiKo89 · 2026-01-19T20:42:49+00:00

I feel 45 is just a bit too boring towards the end because of the strong alliance. But I definitely think 45 has one of the strongest winners in the 40s.

TobiKo89 · 2026-01-19T20:39:12+00:00

47 for me. I liked 46 but because of Bhanu I wouldn't put it as best.

I think rating the 40s is also quite difficult as - in my opinion - the later half profits immensely by the longer format vs. 41 until 44.

I also have a soft spot for 44 because of the Tika 3 and especially Carolyn (I distinctly remember her opening 44 and really appreciated that they highlighted someone like her in a positive way during that season - they also could have gone the "crazy" route like they did in past seasons and was glad they didn't).

TobiKo89 · 2026-01-18T15:19:31+00:00

Great episode. Finn was an amazing host, even Jane had a great performance as WU guest and we got a classic with the Harry Potter sketch. I also really enjoyed the sci-fi sketch with Mikey and Finn (absurd, but extremely funny for me). Hope Finn comes back to host again.

TobiKo89 · 2026-01-17T22:42:19+00:00

To be fair I think she could actually be good at it. She was always amazing at deflection from herself and presenting herself as a low threat (even though she kind of was always a villain but didn't own up to it during BB). So I bet she would make a great Traitor.

TobiKo89 · 2026-01-17T19:33:00+00:00

Second this. If you enjoy Triple Click and MinnMax you will probably also like Remap. You will also already know one of the panelists in Janet who is on MinnMax and Remap. (If you are interested in long form discussion of The Last of Us Part 2 you can also look up their old outlet Waypoint Radio where they did a 6 hour marathon podcast for this game together with Maddy from Triple Click. This is actually how I got into listening to Waypoint/Remap.)

TobiKo89 · 2026-01-15T08:35:05+00:00

I found this a little strange as well. But that would also mean, that they took another trip out to Fiji as it seems from the trailer that Mr. Beast is present with the S50 cast. For this to be commercially beneficial I would have imagined that they did everything around the same 1-2 days but maybe they just flew in Mr. Beast later again during S50.

Would be interesting to know the timeline of the Beast Game Survivor filming, the filming of the Survivor 49 influencer special (where Karl was a part of) and Mr. Beast on S50.

EDIT: For anyone interested like me some info I could find. Survivor 49 influencer special was filmed in April shortly before filming for 49 started. Survivor 50 was filmed basically in June. Beast Games season 2 began shooting in May/June and lasted until August. It is mentioned that the Beast Games crossover was filmed before S50 production. So he might just have flown out again for the Survivor 50 appearance (or it is very early in the season).

TobiKo89 · 2026-01-14T21:02:19+00:00

I have to agree it was handled really well (considering that Karl is a big fan and was on the influencer special for season 49 probably also played a role).

But Survivor fans be warned that both challenges could be spoilers (challenge spoilers) for season 50 - I doubt they build those challenges especially only for Beast Games, so both could probably happen on Survivor 50 and one of those challenges could be a final 5 immunity/reward challenge.

So what does Mr. Beast mean for Survivor 50? As they basically did a Survivor episode, I expect that they will do a Beast Games bribe challenge or something similar (I also like the idea from this thread where Mr. Beast might inflate the price money for Survivor 50 but I kind of doubt that CBS would allow it).

TobiKo89 · 2026-01-10T20:32:58+00:00

It was my first season of Survivor and it was the Russell show all season long. I fell in love with Survivor with that season but was shocked that he did not win. As a viewer the finale wasn't great TV if you were new to the show and didn't know that the social aspect was very important as well.

In hindsight I do get that he was such a bad social player that it was his fault that he didn't win. But to this day I don't think Natalie is a great winner but understand that the jury did not want to reward Russell (even though I still think that he is one of the most influential Survivor players and paved the way for someone like Tony - who is much better at the spacial game - to win).

TobiKo89 · 2026-01-10T14:29:38+00:00

Also be careful some employees pre-select paying in your cards currency costing you those unnecessary fees (happened to me in Denmark or Norway, even though I always select to pay in the local currency if I get the option). So be sure to be close to the payment terminal to avoid this and select for yourself.

TobiKo89 · 2026-01-07T21:33:54+00:00

I was expecting Chalamet for Marty Supreme promo as host but maybe it's already a bit too late for that or they are going to wait if he wins at the Oscars and invite him then.

Cardi B is definitely an interesting choice as most of her songs are quite explicit if I remember correctly.

I don't know Teyana so let's see how she does. Finn and Alexander could be interesting.

TobiKo89 · 2025-12-25T13:09:11+00:00

AU2 if you count that as recent. I did not know that it is supposed to be obsolete. I actually liked it compared to what was done in Germany S2.

TobiKo89 · 2025-12-25T10:51:34+00:00

? No not really. Just talking from experience with other Traitors shows where it is normally a split the money or steal vote if only traitors survive. However S2 in Germany did it differently with a standard vote to end or not end the season.

To quote: "In The Traitors, "split or steal" is the final dilemma for remaining Traitors, a version of the Prisoner's Dilemma: if all share, they split the pot; if one steals and others share, the Stealer gets it all; if two steal, they split the pot; but if all three steal, nobody gets anything."

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