The Traitors fans point out ‘big plot hole’ in season 3 that has them concerned

2025 is already turning out to be a brilliant year as we’ve got The Traitors back on our TV screens.

The third series of the BBC reality show is just as wildly addictive as we’ve come to expect from it. While one major problem has been fixed, viewers are concerned that another part has become so predictable it could impact the results.

Each episode features the traitors and faithfuls entering the breakfast room in small groups.

It’s at this morning gathering that they discover who has been ‘murdered’ by the traitors overnight, before host Claudia Winkleman enters the room and makes their exit official by taking down their picture.

It’s been pointed out that the last people to enter the room are often faithfuls, and more specifically, the people who were being considered to be ‘murder’ victims. In the two episodes so far this has been the case, and viewers have noted that they did something similar in previous series.

If faithfuls watched previous series intently then they could have the knowledge to figure out the pattern, and therefore have been given a helping hand.

Leanne and Freddie arrived to breakfast last in the second episode (Picture: BBC)

Social media has been flooded with concerned fans, who want to know how this has been allowed to happen.

‘The last people to arrive at breakfast every morning are always the people being debated for murder for dramatic TV effect, this should confirm to everyone that they are faithful but no one seems to have clocked this,’ Sami Rassam wrote on X.

Beth McColl echoed the concerns writing: ‘Sorry if this has been covered but on The Traitors surely if you always pay attention to the final 3 people coming in at breakfast you’ll find most of the faithfuls fairly fast? because those three last people are the players the traitors discussed killing & therefore can’t be it. I might be stupid but is this not a big hole in the format that they’ve repeated every season now.’

‘Massive flaw in The Traitors. Each night they have 3 potential victims lined up. Next morning, 2 of the 3 are always last into breakfast and therefore can be ruled out as traitors by any contestant who has watched the show before,’ Roger Hadwen also shared.

The traitors have so far suvived banishments (Picture: BBC)

However, the entrance timing may not be a clear-cut ‘game-solving clue’. In season one, when contestants would have been completely unaware as they didn’t have previous series to go off, it was often used. However, even back in 2023, there were exceptions to the rule with traitor Amanda coming in last in one episode.

Clearly, production was on it in series two and made sure the traitors’ game wouldn’t be foiled through faithfuls analysing this particular part of the day. On four different occasions, the traitors were in the last batch of arrivals to breakfast.

Series one Ivan Brett noted each time that they came in late in a thread on X, including episode six when eventual winner Harry came in last. He summarised that any one who looked too much at this disproven pattern would be ‘barking up the wrong croissant’.

Although the first two episodes of series three have seen the faithfuls up for murder consideration arrive last, it is still early days and things could be quickly turned on their head by production.

The group are coming up with their own theories (Picture: BBC / Studio Lambert)

Despite the evidence that the traitors don’t always avoid that final walk-in, viewers are still adamant it’s still a bit of a spoiler.

‘Even though it might not be 100% foolproof, it’s still a way better theory & more concrete suggestions of Faithful than anything the players are coming up with now… vibes, heard turns, feelings,’ argued ShanghaiHannah.

If viewer Jay was playing we imagine he’d be making Excel spreadsheets to figure it out, as he asked: ‘Is there something to the late arrival being significant in another way? Without getting into the data, it seems to me that producers often lump the “maybe murdered” into the late group. While not damning, it’s a useful datapoint to know who was on the block the previous evening.’

Could the breakfast provide a big clue for faithfuls? (Picture: BBC)

In tonight’s episode, the breakfast meeting will be a little different as after failing their secret mission of sabotaging a group mission, the traitors – Armani, Linda and Minah – didn’t get to carry out a murder.

This meant each of the faithfuls were able to sleep soundly knowing that they’d bought themselves an extra day in Ardross Castle.

In the last installment, Armani offered Linda and Minah a sort of performance review. Armani encouraged them to be more vocal, and asked them to convince the faithfuls to believe incorrect theories. However, Minah disagreed, and actually thinks Armani is ‘doing too much’.

‘She is very confident, and that confidence is turning into cockiness for her. I don’t like it. If she’s going down I’m not going in the boat with her. So I think she needs to be a bit careful,’ Minah stated.

Minah isn’t the only one with concerns, viewers are convinced that Armani could be heading home at the next banishment.

The Traitors continues tonight (Picture: Cody Burridge/BBC/PA Wire)

If you’re not aware of The Traitors rules, then firstly, where have you been? Secondly, let us catch you up!

The show’s rules are relatively simple but lead to a game of complicated deceit. There are two teams – traitors and faithfuls. The traitors must not be discovered to win, and the faithfuls must try to figure out who they are to win.

Each day every remaining person votes for who should be banished in a round table, and the surviving Traitors get to then secretly murder players too.

Both teams are committed to staying until the final roundtable as a prize pot of £120,000 is up for grabs.

The Traitors continues tonight on BBC One at 9pm

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