Did Cirie go too far by bringing family matters into the game?
or Christian’s bonkers, focus-pulling way of existing. It was the emotions that poured out of everybody, all the time, as the season hurtled toward its endgame. Beginning with the Shelbe vote-off in second half of the game, the emotional stakes heightened with each elimination, capping off with a tour de force betrayal wheneliminated Arie, her closest traitor ally.
Andie and Quentin argued that Cirie over-stepped an ethical code by bringing their families’ need for money and Andie’s expenses for top surgery into the game. But Cirie, though deferential to their emotions, said she did what she had to do with the card she was dealt: being named a traitor. “I felt like Cirie stabbed me in the back by being a traitor,” Quentin says at one point, ascribing to Cirie a moral failing over a role she had no control over.
These ethical dilemmas regarding players’ personal lives and feelings aren’t new to strategy-based reality TV — they’ve been around since Richard Hatch created ’s very first alliance back in season one. But what are the ethics of a game that has few set-in-stone rules about gameplay? On, a series about to embark on its 44th season, that’s been thoroughly litigated. Varner outing Zeke as transgender resulted in his elimination; Dan touching Kellee in a way that made her feel uncomfortable didn’t result in his, though the show knows it should have, since he was later removed for inappropriately touching a member of the show’s production team.
included alliances without any contestants questioning the morality of strategizing. It was what needed to be done. Anyone can be a traitor, even the person you poured your heart out to. In turn, the show will need to innovate on those terms to stay interesting. The value of the first season ofcame in part from its ability to return the audience to that naïve state of early strategy shows — when questions of morality, and intense emotions, are still interesting and viable.
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