Traitors Withdrawal? Here’s Where to Get Your Next Betrayal Fix

The cloaks are off. The round table’s empty. And suddenly everyone on TV seems… far too sincere.

If The Traitors ending has left you with genuine withdrawal symptoms, that nagging sense that something is missing, and that what’s missing is people lying convincingly to each other, you’re not alone. Once you’ve watched trust slowly corrode from the inside, wholesome telly feels oddly unsatisfying.

What you’re craving now is more tertiary. TV where deception isn’t a twist, it’s the point. Where loyalty is conditional. And where doing the group over at the right moment isn’t frowned upon, it’s rewarded.

The good news? The Traitors didn’t come out of nowhere. And if you’re looking to scratch that itch, these three shows are the perfect place to start.

Reality Competition

The Mole, Netflix

If you’ve finished The Traitors and felt a strange sense of déjà vu, there’s a good reason. Long before castles and cloaks, The Mole was already playing the same psychological games. The format first appeared in Europe as De Mol in 1999, before launching in the US in 2001, quietly laying the foundations for betrayal-led reality TV as we know it.

Netflix’s 2024 reboot feels less like a revival and more like a reminder of just how strong that original idea still is. The premise is elegantly cruel: a group works together to build a prize pot, while one person, the Mole, is secretly sabotaging them from within. Every failed challenge, every strange decision, every slip-up forces the same question: was that incompetence… or betrayal?

What makes the 2024 version such a perfect post-Traitors watch is its restraint. There’s no theatre, no grandstanding. Betrayal is quiet, plausible and often only obvious in hindsight, which makes the reveals land all the harder. If your favourite Traitors moments were the slow burns, the lingering looks, the creeping doubt, the conversations that start with “I don’t want to say this, but…” The Mole is exactly what you’re after.

Scripted Drama

Succession, Sky Atlantic/Now

If you’re one of the few people who somehow hasn’t watched Succession yet, this is your cue. Succession isn’t a show about betrayal, it’s a show where betrayal is the default setting. Set inside a powerful media dynasty, it follows a family who confuse proximity with loyalty and affection with obligation.

Every conversation is a negotiation. Every promise has an expiry date. Every alliance is temporary. What makes Succession such a natural companion to The Traitors is the logic behind the backstabbing. Nobody flips impulsively. They do it because the timing is right, the numbers make sense, and waiting one more move would be fatal. If you loved the late-game Traitors moments, the calm, devastating decisions delivered with a straight face and a weak apology, Succession gives you four seasons of that exact energy, sharpened to perfection. It’s tertiary, but corporate. And it’s utterly ruthless.

Social Strategy & Mind Games

The Devil’s Plan, Netflix

This Korean reality series gathers highly intelligent contestants, strategists, lawyers, engineers, professional gamers and drops them into a multi-day competition where long-term thinking matters more than charm or popularity. Here, betrayal isn’t dramatic. It’s optimal. Alliances are formed with end dates in mind. Trust is extended carefully. And when someone turns on the group, it’s rarely personal, just the correct move given the information available.

For anyone who loved the Traitors moments where someone explains, calmly and almost apologetically, why they had to do what they did, The Devil’s Plan is deeply satisfying. It’s colder, quieter, and somehow even more brutal because of it.

All three of these shows, like The Traitors, understand the same fundamental truth: Groups don’t fall apart because of villains. They fall apart because of incentives. People don’t betray because they’re evil. They betray because the game rewards the person who moves first. And when you do, rate them on Recce. Because betrayal always hits harder when you score it out of 100.