Since the opening of the Gothic manor doors of the Karine Vanasse baroness, the conclave remains 100 % female in Traitors de Noovo and this occult circle of power leads to crisp and attractive reality TV.
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The choice to designate three traitors to pull the strings of this play of werewolves is not trivial. Last year, the British channel BBC, which relays The Traitors Since 2022, has suffered a rain of criticisms of fans angry with the fate reserved for women in this popular reality TV of murder and mysteries.
Almost all the traitors of the second season of the BBC were men, who practically assassinated only women. Another irritant for the public: traitors at the top of the television pyramid only recruited male comrades, which gave the impression of a big boys club striving for repeated girls.
Of course, production does not control the decisions of competitors and does not use their pen either when the time comes to sign the parchment of death. But the image returned by this testosteroneum edition of The Traitors was not brilliant.
Even the host of the show, Claudia Winkleman, deplored it. “Great, another man. As in the good old days, “mocked Claudia Winkleman during another episode dominated by a group of men” who felt threatened by strong and intelligent women “.
Unconscious biases persist in competition reality TVs, where women, racialized people, elderly candidates and members of the LGBTQ community often go to the hatch first. We noted it last winter during the chain reaction to Big Brother Celebritieswhich targeted two participants of Haitian origin, Barnev Valsaint and Fabiola Nyrva Aladin.
In the third season of Survivor Quebectwo of the first three sacrificed players, Huggens Castor and Félix Laliberté, were openly cheerful. And the last candidate over 50 years old Survivor QuebecDanyelle Bachand, 65, stayed in the game this week almost miraculously. She had been eliminated by her tribe, but was able to remain in the Philippines due to a twist which transformed the ouster of the day in exchange for a player.
Fortunately, the current season of Traitors On Noovo deviates from this kind of stereotypes. In fact, if this second edition captivates the viewers as much, it is because women dominate, Audrey and Annick in particular. They generate almost all discussions around this reality TV turned to the Rouville-Campbell manor in Mont-Saint-Hilaire.
The faithful Audrey Morissette, 37, discovered last year at Survivor Quebecis chaotic, unpredictable, Machiavellian, limited, too confident and very invested, which earned him the nickname of “little general of the Bécosses”, graciousness of Mike Martin, 62 years old.
Not always armed with reliable information, Audrey plays big and strong, and she pushes her colleagues in their last entrenchments, which sometimes makes her exasperating. This week, it was unbearable to see her bark orders in the Corp Cage game and Quebec legend books.
But Audrey is aware that she is a perfect character of Vilaine and she exploits it thoroughly. In a reality TV like Traitorsthere is nothing more boring than a beige and smooth competitor.
The osteopath Annick Boucher, 39, also causes strong reactions because of its explosive and volatile character. She makes impulsive decisions, choins with all the guests and grants the best interviews to the confessional. Like Audrey, Annick knows how to make good times of TV.
The occupational therapist Marilyn Bergeron, 34, the second traitor still in action, activates more discreetly while having a very fair reading of the game. Marilyn maneuver skillfully and avoids the traps, unlike her sister Karyne Durocher, 40, who committed several blunders having cost her his place in the conclave.
In addition to silencing his trait’s status, Karyne had to camouflage her matrimonial relationship with Mike, which certainly did not help his stress management.
I am not sure (yet) that the intimate newspapers of the guests of Karine Vanasse are really used to unmask traitors. Why would players record clues that they would not use at a round table? As with the revelation segment, I would cut these superfluous minutes.
There is one last thing that annoys in Traitors : the spelling on the slates. Competitors are unable to properly write the first names of their companions, it’s fascinating. Poor Vytee, poor Kevin/Kaven/Keven and poor Yolène, poor Yolaine or even poor Yolande – by the end of the season, we should be able to put all the letters in the right order.
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