The Traitors on Prime: cast, what it is, how it works, streaming, location

NoIt cannot be said that there were committees that were pushing for the arrival of The Traitors in Italy, the fact is that it is one of the most awarded recent reality shows is now streaming on Prime Video. From Holland, with the original title De Verraders, the format born in 2021 of loyalists and traitors locked in a castle to play only one will remain therefore it has an Italian version (produces Fremantle Italia for Amazon MGM Studios). The host is Alessia Marcuzziin an unprecedented role as a dark (good but not good) chatelaine who he smiles little and encourages the group of competitors who are accumulating the most victims.

Present practically all over the world, or there to debut with next year, The Traitors is a reality show that in the United States and the United Kingdom it won Emmys and Bafta. A product – especially the American one conducted by Alan Cumming –, so engaging and well done (two Emmys for photography) that it manages to undermine how darling of the television Oscars RuPaul’s Drag Race.

The Traitors Italy on Prime: how it works, what it is, how many episodes in streaming, competing casts

The streaming debut takes place with 4 episodes (out of 6 total) immediately available today 30 October. The last 2 will be broadcast on November 6th. The famous cast, already announced some time ago, is made up of 14 participants/competitors: Michela Andreozzi, Paola Barale, Filippo Bisciglia, Giancarlo Commare, Giuseppe Giofrè, Pierluca Mariti, Tess Masazza, Alessandro Orrei, Mariasole Pollio, Raiz, Aurora Ramazzotti, Daniele Resconi, Rocco Tanica and Yoko Yamada.

This is a Prime area group, let’s say. Three attended Lolone – Husbands – a Red Carpet – VIPs knocked outMarcuzzi’s program without praise released in January on the streaming with which Alessia has a contract.

Filmed in Trentino, in two castles in the Val di Non, the show stages the challenge between the so-called loyal and traitors. A division that occurs through the selection of traitors by Alessia, who “randomly” draws from all the competitors sitting and blindfolded. Once the selection is complete, no one knows what the identity of the others is, putting everyone in a position of foul or secrecy.

However, with the traitors having the advantage to get to know each other: to decide in fact Who kill – eliminating the victim from the game choice – they must gather in a conclave, in which by revealing who they are they proceed to a shared strategy. Of course, even loyal people can eliminate traitors. They can do it in a round table where the cast compares suspicions, accusations and theories, leading up to a collective vote. The person who accumulates the most votes reveals his identity before exiting, sometimes throwing one into prostration if the elimination is actually a misunderstanding. Furthermore, since there were only 3 traitors, for the loyal (whose alliance is almost impossible, except for issues of trust or previous knowledge) catching traitors is very difficult.

What do you win?

Beyond the pleasant massacre, the game has a specific objective: the conquest of a prize pool. Which progressively accumulates through team tests, in which no one stops thinking about who is a traitor and who is not. On the two sides of these challenges, there are the death organized by the traitors (which is discovered the next morning at breakfast: whoever doesn’t show up is the murdered) and the collective vote. Will there only be one left? Yes and no. If at the end of the game even one traitor remains, this person will keep all the loot for himself; if instead all traitors are eliminated, then the sum will go to the remaining players.

The first episodes

Coming out first from a reality show always hurts, and The Traitors it is no less. In the first episode the traitors take out a person who immediately shows that he has his nose in the sight of those who lie. The same happens moving forward, always with precise aim. The loyal, on the other hand, feeling alone, are reckless due to insecurity or easily influenced by strange theories that bounce around, such as conspiracies.

It’s the moments when the show turns that are a marvel. Where accusations of traitor and defense can converge in the most delirious of nonsense, making one perceive a shyness due to an eminence grise entrenchment. It so happens that fingers pointing at the right targets are ignored, while false alarms are often chased worse than a flock.

Of course, the veteran cast members know better (and are more interesting) than the kids. In this sense the authors, and casting directors, will have to be careful for the next editions. If the first fatal shot is always that of the traitors, assuming that they themselves are straight, it is natural that they will always fire on the most upright of the remaining loyal ones. It’s the game, of course, but you’d like to see well-oiled brains at work, especially in a game of intuition and unmasking. The Traitors it will still be a success, as it was Lol at the beginning, and perhaps with an even longer tail.

While Whoever laughs is out it now seems like a format that is completely running out of steam, this one has characteristics of sure and repeatable charm. From Luna Park-style freak show – the castles, tombs, torches, hooded capes – to the spirit of a board game. The slew of awards from Hollywood to London does the rest, giving a stamp of quality.

Where it was filmed The Traitors?

The locations used as sets are two castles – one medieval, the other Renaissance – in Val di Non: Castel Valer And Castel Nanno. Valer is the main venue of the show, where (perhaps) the contestants also stay, and where all the main activities take place among the halls and Renaissance furnishings. It is accessed by a bridge, and has the particularity of having a 40 meter high octagonal tower in the centre. The castle can be visited with the help of guides. It is located at Tassullo, in the municipality of Ville d’Anaunia.

Nanno is also located in the municipality of Ville d’Anaunia (Trento)but in the hamlet of the same name. It looks decidedly creepier. Filled with legends about ghosts and forbidden loves, as well as revenge, It is the site of several fatigue tests for competitors The Traitors thanks to a large garden. It can be visited by reservation like Valer.