With On Patrol: Live in reruns this holiday weekend, NBC Peacock subscribers might be looking for some other content to watch on the streaming service with family and friends, especially if rainy weather comes through.

One possibility is the reality show called The Traitors.

The 10-episode game is silly, seems fake and manipulated, heavily edited, possibly rigged, populated by superficial phonies, and so forth, but it is very engaging and addictive.

Thus, The Traitors is binge-worthy fun, assuming you are interested in pure escapism.

As NPR previously asserted, the series is “goofy, hyperdramatic, suspenseful and pretty entertaining.”

As an aside, the production values appear top notch.

And the wardrobe budget must have been massive, since the contestants constantly show up in different outfits, even during the confessional cutaways.

The Traitors has a premise similar to Survivor, except that the scheming contestants are incrementally “banished” from a Scottish castle rather than voted off an island.

In the season finale, the remaining “faithful” can split the grand prize that maxes out at $250,000 depending on successful completion of missions (i.e., challenges), one of which involves being buried alive.

There is one major footnote in the rules: If one or more of the secret plotters, the so-called traitors, survive, the traitors pocket all the cash.

In each episode, the traitors also eliminate one contestant through rhetorical “murder” — although in keeping with the castle concept, the term really should be execute.

As such, a lot of intrigue, betrayal, backstabbing, and flawed decision-making occurs as the competitors try to figure out who among them are the traitors.

In an over-the-top manner, The Traitors is hosted by Scottish actor Alan Cumming, who has admitted he’s playing a character.

The Traitors is based on a Dutch series called De Verraders.

A British version is apparently filmed at the same castle.

Update: Season 1 of The Traitors U.K. is now available on Peacock.

The American version was supposedly a hit for Peacock. Thus, a season 2 is on the way with some tweaks planned for the rules.

According to Stephen Lambert, the CEO of show producer Studio Lambert, “We hugely enjoyed making the US version of this hit format with NBC and giving Peacock’s audience a highly bingeable murder mystery game full of intrigue and dramatic twists. This is the game which shows how people judge each other, often leaping to false conclusions, in a way that’s revealing and entertaining, and we’re excited to be making a second season with Alan as together we build on the success of the first,”

In the meantime, Peacock is airing an Australian version, which is a bit less glitzy than the American edition, but it is more cleverly edited (although one particular contestant’s backstory is mentioned at least 3 times).

And instead of reality “stars,” the gamers seem to be more like ordinary people, but possessing of strategic skills, at least to some degree.

Admittedly, the breakfast reveal in both the U.S. and Aussie versions gets a little tedious, as does all the hugging and crying among people who just met.

Some viewers might find the Australian uptalk tendency a bit much.

In the end, the dentists who make porcelain veneers might be the real winners.

Additional update: After watching all three versions, it turns out that the U.K. rendition is the superior product.

The players, who are mostly everyday people (although obviously vetted for characteristics the producers find desirable) are a lot more crafty and savvy that their counterparts in the U.S. and Australia, and the host seems more interactive and less scripted.

A footnote to that is that at least one of the leading contenders for the prize makes a massive blunder.

Again, the common thread in all three series of the hugging and crying among contestants who just met each other a few days previous appears very strange.

In the end, the audience will likely be more pleased with how season 1 turned out, in contrast perhaps to the American and especially the Australian finales.

The Traitors U.K. also gives the audience more of a peek into how the game is organized. For one thing, the cast doesn’t stay overnight in the castle (unlike the impression left by the American version). Instead, they are individually jeeped out to separate hotels.

Update: Season 2 of the U.S. version was okay (too much dependence of reality show “stars” to round out the cast), Season 2 of the U.K. version was really good, Season 2 of the Australian version was a significant upgrade over the first season, especially with a unique rules change for the finale. The first season of the New Zealand version started off weak, but it did end very strong.