As a family we're not big reality tv fans. And as a basically decent human being I don't enjoy watching 'social experiments' which aim to pit people against each other and cause hurt and upset, which is precisely what this show does.
Odd then that I'm quite as glued to it as I am. Perhaps because it's all so overwrought and the storms are all very much in little teacups, with all the players guaranteed to be out of the castle in a few days and back to their humdrum lives. After all, you can win as much money on Michael McIntyre's The Wheel and that can be cruelly random at times - it's not like there's a million pounds at stake or anything.
So maybe that's the magic. It's sick, it's twisted, it has a cast of fairly recognisable 'normal' but flawed personalities, and the twists are well thought out and well executed. Claudia is enjoying what little she has to do and doesn't seem to mind the psychological trauma her victims are going through. Slightly odd perhaps that all of us in this house are rooting for the traitors rather than the faithful, although maybe that's the aim?
Anyway, I feel guilty watching these people crying and shouting at each other, but it's a little too easy to enjoy it I'm afraid. Mea culpa.
Odd then that I'm quite as glued to it as I am. Perhaps because it's all so overwrought and the storms are all very much in little teacups, with all the players guaranteed to be out of the castle in a few days and back to their humdrum lives. After all, you can win as much money on Michael McIntyre's The Wheel and that can be cruelly random at times - it's not like there's a million pounds at stake or anything.
So maybe that's the magic. It's sick, it's twisted, it has a cast of fairly recognisable 'normal' but flawed personalities, and the twists are well thought out and well executed. Claudia is enjoying what little she has to do and doesn't seem to mind the psychological trauma her victims are going through. Slightly odd perhaps that all of us in this house are rooting for the traitors rather than the faithful, although maybe that's the aim?
Anyway, I feel guilty watching these people crying and shouting at each other, but it's a little too easy to enjoy it I'm afraid. Mea culpa.