Sort Your Viewing Out

I’ve been keeping up with my movie-viewing this year, but not so much the telly side. Time to sort that out. Like half the UK, I was obsessed with season four of The Traitors in January, having caught up on prior traitoring late last year. This series was marked by the inclusion of barristers, detectives, crime writers and psychologists among its contestants, which shouldn’t be surprising: the word is out that it’s the best psychological puzzle on TV. But there’s an even wider potential audience: people who’ve been suspected of wrongdoing when they haven’t done anything wrong. Most of the focus has been on the traitors themselves, who are forced to lie and deceive—some happily, others obviously struggling—but I couldn’t help feeling for the players arguing in vain that they weren’t. If only real life allowed for dramatic reveals that you were faithful all along. After the series ended, I needed more, so I took a chance on The Traitors Ireland, which proved to be almost as good, once I…