Season 3 of the Emmy-winning competition series The Traitors premiered Thursday, and RuPaul's Drag Race star Bob the Drag Queen has quickly become the queen of Alan Cumming's Scottish castle.
The Drag Race star is no stranger to games, having won season 8 of the MTV drag competition. But he just might be underestimated by this all-star celebrity cast.
Hosted by Cumming, The Traitors boasts stars from across the spectrum of reality television, including Big Brother's Danielle Reyes, Real Housewives of New York's Dorinda Medley, The Bachelor's Gabby Windley, and Selling Sunset's Chrishell Stause.
The game is simple: 20 reality TV stars entered the house as equals but three are secretly chosen as "Traitors" by Cumming. The rest are "Faithfuls," whose objective is to successfully identify and vote out the Traitors. It's the job of the Traitors to stay undetected while they murder off the Faithful one by one, either by killing them in the night or turning the faithful against one another so they vote more Faithful players out. Each side can win by eliminating all of their opposition.
Spoilers ahead...
Bob, the third drag queen to appear in the franchise after Peppermint and Melinda Verga, was chosen as one of three Traitors. *cue the maniacal laughter*.
Bob the Drag Queen is quite the personality and made no attempt to fly under the radar in the three-episode premiere, calling people out left and right while simultaneously leading the Traitor's control room to murder players who would cause the most confusion. His chaos tactics worked slyly until episode 3 when Dylan Efron (yes, Zac Efron's brother) began to catch on to his game play.
This led to a delicious confrontation at the first roundtable of the series. Efron calls out Bob, and Bob swiftly pokes holes in every one of his arguments and then dubs Efron's drag name as Miss Guided, effectively swatting his name away from the discussion.
Efron then tried to calm the situation and shrug off responsibility, saying, "I may be Miss Guided, but we're all looking in the wrong direction."
So Bob lives another day. But the game play didn't end there. After the roundtable sent a Faithful home, Bob approached Efron to cover his tracks. "You're probably not used to people like me," he tells Efron. The moment feels like it's referencing Bob's friend Peppermint's appearance in the last season, who was quickly targeted by the cast because of her boisterous personality. It feels like a plea for understanding from Efron — but the suspicion isn't completely off her back, and Cumming's latest twist just might throw a wrench in his plan of winning.
Bob said it best. "Alan Cumming is sick, twisted, and needs to be psychiatrically evaluated." Bob laughs, "So should I."
New episodes of The Traitors premiere Thursdays on Peacock. Listen to theTraitors Only recap podcast here.