'Traitors' Season 2 finale on Peacock was reality TV perfection

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Ani Bundel is a cultural critic who has been writing regularly since 2010. Her work can also be found at Elite Daily and WETA's Telly Visions, where she also co-hosts 'Telly Visions: The Podcast.'

Americans watched with surprise as liars and manipulators were humbled last night. Sure, I watched the State of the Union address. But I’m actually talking about Peacock’s sleeper hit reality series “The Traitors,” which dropped its second season finale right before President Joe Biden arrived at the U.S. Capitol. The series debuted in January 2023, but over the past year has managed to grow its audience by 75%. “The Traitors” season two is the most watched unscripted series in the U.S.

The first season’s cast was half celebrities, half unknown contestants; the second has gone all in on “public figures,” with contestants pulled from a mix of old school and new reality shows, from “The Real World” and “Survivor” to “Bling Empire,” “Real Housewives,” “Love Island,” “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and even the retired Maksim Chmerkovskiy from “Dancing With the Stars.

 

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