Parvati's Kill Brings Beautiful Chaos to The Traitors

Episode 4 was GREAT television.

It’s been almost 20 years since I worked in reality TV, but watching episode 4 of The Traitors reminded me of that thrill you’d feel when the director’s notes came in from the shoot and you read them and just knew, knew, you had so much good material that there wouldn’t be a single wasted moment. This episode was funny, snarky, tense, campy, heated, unexpectedly musical, deeply satisfying, a blueprint for my own eventual funeral, AND still somehow had time for Alan Cumming to remind us about four times what the rules of the challenge were.

First, Deontay Wilder did indeed leave the show after the last episode. This guy made his living giving and taking literal punches, but the emotional blows from the first two banishments were too much to bear; he said the wrong accusations, and his part in them, triggered some childhood trauma he hadn’t had an outlet for before and so he removed himself. Deontay came across as a nice, smart guy who just did what the game asks them all to do, and did …