Warning: This text incorporates spoilers for The Traitors US season 2 by means of episode 6.
To say Josh Martinez is unimpressed along with his fellow Large Brother champ is an understatement as he didn’t maintain again when it got here to closely criticizing Dan Gheesling’s efficiency on The Traitors US.
Earlier than we get to Josh’s remarks, right here’s a fast recap of Dan’s Traitors look.
Dan, the winner of Large Brother 10, runner-up of season 14, and who many regard as the best franchise contestant ever, got here out of a decade-long retirement to play in season 2 of Peacock’s actuality competitors present. To followers and Dan’s delight, he was chosen to fill the position of Traitor alongside Survivor’s Parvati Shallow and Bravo’s Phaedra Parks. The trio murdered and averted banishment collectively till episode 6, the hour that marked Dan’s demise.
Dan took the identical strategy he had in his two seasons of Large Brother — cling within the background, observe, and strike when he felt the second was proper. Sadly for Dan, that play fashion didn’t match The Traitors‘ rapid-style happenings. The opposite contestants always criticized him for being unvoiced and his perceived lack of involvement led to his finish. He was sniffed out as a Traitor and promptly voted out on the spherical desk.
Nicely, one ex-Large Brother alum who watched Dan’s Traitors tenure was Josh. And when talking with Shannon Tharp about season 2, the Large Brother 19 champion unloaded on the mastermind. Josh stated Dan was among the many names he was most excited to see play however was “dissatisfied” with Dan’s capability within the recreation.
“I believe Dan tried to play Traitors like how he performed Large Brother 10 years in the past,” Josh stated. “With Large Brother, he was capable of coast and sort of float, after which speak a giant recreation within the [diary room].”
“If you’re taking part in a recreation with individuals which are expert in technique, which are on the prime of their recreation —Sandra [Diaz-Twine] — when you’ve gotten individuals like CT [Tamburello] and Johnny [Bananas], I believe that you would be able to’t be a one-trick pony. I believe you’ve received to be far more inventive, and I believe his abilities had been outdated. I’m going to get hate for that. He’s nonetheless one of many greats to play Large Brother. However… all video games have developed [from when Dan played last]. And I believe that it’s good to adapt and get with the instances. I believe he performed the worst recreation, I actually do.”
Josh speculated that the sport could have been “too fast” for Dan. Bear in mind, Dan’s used to having months of playtime to maneuver a social-strategy recreation. However, Traitors is filmed in a matter of weeks.
“It was unhappy to look at,” Josh stated.
Being out of the competitors limelight for therefore lengthy didn’t assist Dan’s grand return. And Josh stated that if Dan had skilled one thing like Large Brother Reindeer Video games, or one other in-and-out present earlier than The Traitors, he would’ve doubtlessly realized issues had modified because the good ol’ days.