Sometimes a TV show comes along at just the right time. In the feverish early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, when we were gasping for human connection, it was Normal People with all its charged adolescent longing and sparse dialogue.
Now there is a newcomer in the emerging category of “TV to watch when you can’t take one more second of anything remotely real”: The Traitors Ireland.
In a world of dire global news, fragmented viewing patterns, AI slop, brainrot, Netflix series that start promisingly and then peter out and a presidential election that has petered out before it started at all, the performance of The Traitors is perhaps not surprising, although it is still extraordinary.
Fifty per cent of the available audience tuned in, and the series has been streamed 3.7 million times on the RTÉ Player. It became that rare thing: event TV that was capable of dragging people away from their individual devices
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