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.
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