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I just binge watched traitor season two, all three episodes now I want to see more so when will they telecast new episodes?

Disclaimer: I’ve just started watching Traitors Season 1 and I’m currently on Episode 7. Please, please don’t give me any spoilers beyond this point!
There’s something about Elnaz’s behaviour that has been bothering me, and I’m curious whether other people noticed the same thing.
Before she was targeted, she repeatedly seemed to have this very strong opinion that this is a game of dhoka, people are supposed to deceive each other, throw each other under the bus, and do whatever they need to survive. And honestly, I agreed with that logic because… well, that literally IS the game.
But then, when Apurva told her that Purab was going to vote against her, her reaction was basically that she felt really hurt that people were backstabbing her and throwing her under the bus.
And I found that contrast quite disturbing.
Because if betrayal is an inherent part of the game when you’re doing it to someone else, shouldn’t it also be an inherent part of the game when someone does it to you?
Obviously, I understand that emotions change when you’re personally affected. It’s very easy to preach strategy when you’re not the one being targeted. But it made me think about how often people have one moral framework for their own actions and another for everyone else’s.
When I deceive someone: “It’s strategy. It’s a game.”
When someone deceives me: “How could they betray me?”
I know this is reality TV and we’re also seeing an edited version of events, so I’m not claiming to know Elnaz’s actual personality. I’m just talking about the behaviour we’re being shown.
It also made me wonder whether this is something we naturally do as humans, we’re much more forgiving of our own actions because we know our intentions, but we judge other people’s actions by their consequences.
What do you guys think? Did anyone else notice this contradiction, or am I reading too much into it?
Again: I’m only on Episode 7, so PLEASE keep the discussion completely spoiler-free beyond this point.

I work full-time in brand and marketing (12+ years in). The job is good, but it’s one income stream, and I have things I want to build toward that one salary won’t get me there fast enough.

So I’m asking people who are actually doing this, not the “start dropshipping bro” crowd:

What side hustle are you running alongside a full-time job, and what does it realistically pay you a month?

Some context so the advice is useful:

•	I can put in 10–15 hours a week, mostly mornings and weekends    
•	Skills: brand strategy, content writing, social media management, campaign planning, client servicing    
•	Already doing: some freelance work and building two Instagram ccounts + a YouTube channel. Creator income is slow and I know it compounds later, but I want something that pays sooner too.    
•	Not looking for passive income fantasies. Hard work isn’t the issue. I just don’t want to spend six months on something that was never going to work.

Specifically curious about: freelance retainers vs one-off projects, consulting for small businesses, teaching/cohort stuff, productised services, or anything I haven’t thought of.

If it worked for you — how long before the first rupee, and what would you do differently?

I sat through the whole season. Every episode. And then, in a move I stand by, I fast-forwarded the finale just to see who won and closed the tab.

Here’s my problem with Shreya winning. The whole premise of the show was that you’re handed a tag and the point is to break it — to prove you’re more than the label the show stuck on you. Shreya apologised a few times along the way, sure. But she walked out of that finale as exactly the same person who walked in. Nothing shifted. The tag she was given at the start was accurate at the start and it was still accurate at the end. She never let go of it. She just outlasted everyone.

So if the show’s own logic is “own it and evolve,” I don’t understand how you hand the trophy to the one person who did neither.

Anyway, the actual point of this post: I work in brand and content, and about halfway through the season I realised I was spending hours on something with no return. So I stopped watching it as a viewer and started watching it as a case study — specifically how the show and its contestants play the YouTube algorithm. That turned into a content piece I’ve now published, and honestly it justified every hour I lost to this.

Which is my genuine takeaway. If you’re going to sink a season into a reality show, at least mine it for something. The finale gave me nothing. The season gave me a content piece.

Curious if anyone else thought the ending didn’t match the show’s own rules, or if I’m alone on this.

I’m an only child, and I think that’s the part nobody warns you about.

My mom has always been the active one. She’s the person who doesn’t sit still, who takes it personally when her body can’t do something it used to do. If she can’t finish a workout, it’s not “my body is tired today,” it’s a failure. It becomes an ego thing. So she pushes. And pushes. And then every other day, something hurts.

And here’s the ugly part I’ve never said out loud: when I see her in pain, my first feeling isn’t sympathy. It’s anger. Why did you do this? Don’t you know I’m the one who has to watch this? Don’t you know what it does to me?

Then about four seconds later, the guilt arrives. Because who gets angry at their mother for being in pain? She’s not doing it to hurt me. She’s doing it because she’s scared of getting older, and moving is how she proves to herself she still has time. I know that. I know that and I still snap at her.

I think the anger is just fear wearing a costume. Every ache is a preview of something I’m not ready for. And being the only child means there’s no one to split it with — no sibling to call at 11pm and say “is she okay, am I overreacting, are we doing enough.” It’s just me, holding all of it, trying to be the calm one in the room while quietly panicking.

The thing I can’t figure out is how to be present without being her manager. How to comfort her without lecturing her. How to accept that I cannot make my parents permanently happy and permanently safe, no matter how hard I try — and that trying to is probably making me a worse daughter, not a better one.

If you’ve been through this: how did you make peace with watching someone you love decide their own limits? I’d really like to know.

My husband gifted me an Apple Pencil and I was thrilled. Genuinely. Then reality set in.

Here’s my actual usage, no exaggeration:

**• Canva** — moving elements around, rough layouts. This is the only “real” use.
**• Scrolling** — yes, I use a $129 stylus to scroll Instagram. I’m aware.
**• Writing prompts into AI tools** — handwriting into the text box because typing on glass is worse.

That’s it. That’s the list.

. I work in brand marketing, so I’m around decks, reports, and content calendars all day, but somehow none of that has migrated to the Pencil. It just sits there looking like a productivity tool.

If you use yours for actual work — what’s the thing that finally made it stick? Not looking for “learn to draw.” Looking for the boring workflow win.