Our First Look at 'The Traitors' Season 3 Promises "Something Wicked" in Scotland
Alan Cumming in "The Traitors" Season 2
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"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes." So says host Alan Cumming's ominous voiceover atop our first footage from The Traitors Season 3, which includes some creepy clowns, a large burning effigy, a coffin, and plenty of dire pronoucements about how this season's players can trust no one.
The popular reality competition --- which has been a massive hit for NBC streamer Peacock --- returns in January and will see a brand new cast of reality stars and famous-adjacent types descend on a castle in the Scottish HIghlands, where Cumming will encourage them all to life, betray and (metaphorically) murder one another for money. (That he'll do this while sporting an array of truly dazzling array of capes and tartan-themed accessories is the icing on top of the proverbial cake.)
The Season.3 cast is comprised of 21 stars from 14 reality properties, including such popular and (in)famous faces as Survivor's infamous (Boston) Rob Mariano, Big Brother legend Danielle Reyes, Bob the Drag Queen from RuPaul's Drag Race, Tom Sandoval from Vanderpump Rules and many more. A random British royal has also been thrown in for good measure (Lord Ivar Mountbatten), as well Dylan Efron, who appeared with his more famous sibling on docuseries Down to Earth with Zac Efron.
Cumming will choose at least three of these contestants to be a Traitor, who will hide their identity while living among the rest of the group --- known as Faithfuls -- though viewers will discover their identity as part of the season premiere.
Heres the series' description.
Emmy Award-winning series The Traitors is a nail-biting psychological adventure in which treachery and deceit are the name of the game. The entertainment industry’s most competitive reality stars and famous faces play the ultimate murder mystery game.
The game alternates between phases as the Faithfuls attempt to identity and banish a Traitor, while the Traitors gleefully select a Faithful to "murder" each night.
If the Faithful can banish all the Traitors, the surviving contestants who make it to the end of the game can split the cash, but if one Traitor remains among them, that person takes it all. While this may sound very silly, in practice, it makes for wildly addictive television as massive lies are told, betrayals are plotted, and dramatic accusations are flung with abandon.
“It’s very twisty and very kind of pulling the rug from under everybody all the time," Cumming told TV Insider when asked about the new season. "It’s also got some lovely moments in it as well, in a way that we haven’t had before. It’s very different to the other two seasons — in a really good way.
Seasons 1 and 2 of The Traitors are currently streaming on Peacock, alongside both seasons of the series' U.K. version. Season 3 will premiere on January 9, 2025.
