Why ‘nice guy’ Harry must win The Traitors (…after the most gripping hour of telly since the last episode)

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Last night’s episode of The Traitors – as well as being simply the greatest, most gripping hour of telly since the previous night’s funereal shenanigans – was a modern British underdog story. In it, the quiet, permanently overlooked and underestimated Harry, a 22-year-old British Army engineer from Slough and the younger contestants in this year’s line-up, revealed himself to be a dastardly mastermind on the sly. When it came to the roundtable, Harry got his punch in early, systematically unpicking Paul’s gameplan, while his supposed fellow comrade-in-arms sat in horror, helplessly watching his carefully constructed ecosystem of betrayal fall apart in front of him. If social media impact is anything to go by, nice-guy Harry wasn’t anybody’s first pick for MVP of the show – that honour would probably go to Paul himself, or the much-missed Diane.