{"id":15303,"date":"2025-12-15T17:23:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15303"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:26:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:26:44","slug":"tone-and-density","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15303","title":{"rendered":"Tone and density"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some Monday fun, FOTB Alex McMillan has written an entertaining essay on their new Substack about what audiences from different countries expect from reality competitions, and how <em>The Traitors<\/em> might buck the trend a bit in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/undeniablyalex.substack.com\/p\/alternate-realities\"><strong>Alternate Realities<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is curious that whilst <em>The Traitors<\/em> has been clearly a success in many countries, it&#8217;s the UK where it&#8217;s gone absolutely stratospheric in a way I don&#8217;t think it has anywhere else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Monday fun, FOTB Alex McMillan has written an entertaining essay on their new Substack about what audiences from different countries expect from reality competitions, and how The Traitors might buck the trend a bit in the UK. Alternate Realities It is curious that whilst The Traitors has been clearly a success in many countries,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15303\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-3YP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}