The Traitors Ireland : Season 2 (Spoiler)

The Irish version has played out with some interesting observations. I'll highlight those rather than give a summary, which you could get elsewhere. 

Observation One: It started with a blast of tritor banishments. Episodes two, four and five had them packing their bags. That's presumably the most successful start to any Traitors series. Unfortunately, it dried up after that. It was right at the end before any more were weeded out. That is covered in Observation Three. .

Observation Two: This was the use of a helicopter for the last mission. For other Traitors programmes using them, the helicopter is part of the mission. In this case, it was just a taxi to get them there. 

Observation Three: The last round table had two Traitors and two Faithful. Each couple kept voting the same, the Taitors to take out a Faithful and vice versa. In the end, it was decided by a chance outcome, and the Faithfuls won it. Had it gone the other way, the Traitors won. 

Yet with one Traitor left, there was still a chance the Traitor would win. Only one Traitor needs to be at the end to win, while there has to be two Faithfuls and no traitors at the end for them to win. The last two Faithfuls voted off the Traitor. Yay. 

The Traitors (Forræders) Norway : Season 6 (Spoiler)

I saw my first Norwegian version of the show, having missed the first five. There were a few things of note that differ from other versions or events that were of note. 

The sliding door into breakfast. In other shows, knocking before entering is standard but here, the doors slide open. There are some novel ways to enter, in one case two females came in like they were on a catwalk, for example. I actually quite liked it.

Early Banishing didn't happen. For the first half of the game, only one of the four Traitors was sent packing, despite some dodgy actions. The clumsy attempts to find coconut Twist confections didn't focus the Faithfuls on who were Traitors at the time. It did become more important later. 

The wrecking ball Forræder. After the first Traitor went in episode 14, in came Johan-Sebastian. He was a Traitor hunter, immediately. He turned on the other two Traitors and quickly becomes the last one standing. He seems to think that puts him in a strong position but it leaves him without any help if things turn pear shaped.  

It does when he has to reveal his status to one of the Faithful, Frida. Frida tearfully convinces the round table Faithful to vote him off. Five Faithful remain but the rules state that the game cannot conclude until there are four or less left. Frida went and the last four ended the game and took the spoils. I don't recall a series before where five Faithfuls were left.  

I hope I can catch some earlier series from Norway. 

The Celebrity Traitors France : Season 6 (Spoiler)

The only foreign language Traitors I have watched have been the first two Dutch De Verraders. I have now just watched the 2026 French version Les Traîtres, Season 6. Host Éric Antoine often uses the word Machiavellian as he laughed with a sinister cackle. Apparently, he's not usually like that. 

The challenges are somewhat different from those found in English language ones. The Traitors hated his visits as he would always have difficult assignments or introduce risks that could expose them. It mattered not.

Amazingly, no Traitors were recruited. Only one was eliminated, the confrontational Fatou. She stayed so long as people suspected her but were frightened to challenge her. They repeatedly admitted so. The other two original Traitors went the whole way to victory. I can't recall a series with no Traitor recruits before. 

One faithful did challenge Fatou, Cindy. She went after her but couldn't muster much support. Cindy was one of the best Faithfuls I have seen, surrounded by an incompetent group of supposed Traitor hunters. 

The best Faithful there, but seldom listened to. The two remaining Traitors murdered her before she could get them too. Perhaps she was too open, not persuasive enough. She didn't form alliances either. Like I said, it wouldn't have mattered. 

Simply put, the Faithfuls were poor. Axel was the worst Faithful imaginable. Manipulated like a puppet, he helped the two remaining Traitors negotiate the last rounds successfully. When there were five players left, one or more had to be Traitors. Yet when the next two players were banished and both declared they were faithful, it was obvious there were Traitors still in the game. 

He was so convinced the ones he trusted were Faithful that simple maths failed him. Voting off the last obvious Faithful Maud at the instruction of puppet master Issa ended Axel's last hope. Of course, it was too late with only three left and two of them Traitors. 

But Axel still thought the last three were Faithfuls. He was gobsmacked when he found out he wasn't one of the winners. He later said, "La France ne va pas comprendre." (France is not going to understand.) Neither did we.