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), the redux does feature one significant difference.
Heres the thing: Reality-television stars are a kind of demigod.
They are tragedy, they are triumph, they are human drama exaggerated to an operatic degree.
More to the point, theyre justdifferentfrom normal people.Monica Saltburning everyone elseonRHOSLC?
Thats Greek pantheon shit.
In that sense,The Traitorsis grand mythological theater.
Of course, the effort was disastrous in that they uniformly failed.
Every other normie, mostly underdeveloped in the edits, proved to be little more than cannon fodder.
Quentin Jiles, the political analyst, had a nonexistent hit rate.
His complete failure to play the game was incredible to behold.
Nevertheless, the presence of normies enriched the text.
For the most part, the reality vets onThe Traitorsare people who know the score.
Quentin and Andie were not people who knew the score.
They were mortals who flew too close to the reality-television sun and were scorched for their efforts.
To be clear, season twos normie purge has not been a deal-breaker.
What isBling Empires Kevin Kreider even doing there, other than hanging out and vibing?
This leads to an intriguing tension between different kinds of reality-television heritages that the show seems eager to explore.
While there arent any true normies, there are arguably a few players who still occupy normie-adjacent positions.
Deontay Wilder and John Bercow code as relatively normal people despite their extraordinary professions.
In any case, these people are already media creations of a sort.
Theyve previously signed a compact with the cruel gods of fame.
Being a reality-television character is hard, but its still infinitely attainable.
Look around: Future reality demigods walk among us all the time.
Bring back the normies!
