Parting Shot

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HOW REAL DO YOU WANT TO BE? ▸ What is it like when reality stars and regular people mix together? Alan Cumming’s show The Traitors–the “campiest” thing he’s ever done–explores “people blatantly lying. And you see how well they do it or how badly they do it, how much it affects them and hurts them.” Plus: Which contestant was trying to get “banished or murdered” and was “such a brat”?

HOST ▸ H. Alan Scott, culture writer, comedian

IN THEIR WORDS ▸ “I appear like some weird sort of sadomasochist eccentric Scottish laird in ridiculous costumes and make them do these crazy tasks.”