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It's genuinely good I think. I listened to an interview with one of the production team who said they go to great lengths to ensure that none of the production staff are ever on site with the contestants - all the to-camera stuff is done without crew - and to allow things to develop without direct intervention, but that they spend hours and hours before filming to game out all the potential outcomes and how best to set in motion the most entertaining 'story lines'. Obviously picking the traitors is a big part of it. Whether that's all true I don't know, but it always delivers good TV. Grant Mitchell having a paranoid episode was genuinely unnerviing