She cooked. She decorated. She made it nice .
But did she murder? The biggest news in the pop culture world this week was the reveal of the Season 3 cast of The Traitors . Because the show cannonballed into the watercooler with its past season, which featured a 15 Minutes of Fame parade of reality TV stars in the cast, there was intense scrutiny and excitement over who Peacock might draft for its Season 3 roster. Which Real Housewives? How many Survivor contestants? What absolutely random British politician? Host Alan Cumming delivered the cast announcement as only he could — Clueless by fashion, Shakespeare by elocution—and the internet responded in kind: raving about how savvy and gloriously random the cast list is.
There are the expected: six Bravo personalities, Boston Rob from Survivor , and perhaps reality TV’s most notorious personality at the moment, Tom Sandoval. And there are the WTF choices that this genre thrives on, like Zac Efron ’s brother, Dylan, and Britney Spears ’ ex, Sam Asghari. But if you ask me (which nobody has), I can tell you who is the most thrilling addition to the Clue -esque series: none other than former Real Housewives of New York City star Dorinda Medley.
A show like The Traitors, in which the cast must figure out who among them is a “traitor” that can “kill” one of them off each night, thrives in the very specific realm of what I call “sophisticated chaos.” That’s a delicate tightrope to walk, one on which most reality.
