The Traitors was supposed to be set on a ship. On its premiere in the Netherlands in 2021, under its original filming title of De Verraders, creator Marc Pos said he was originally keen on the idea of stranding his contestants at sea as a nod to one of the country’s most infamous national stories. The Batavia was a 17th-century Dutch East India Company flagship that wrecked on a coral reef off Western Australia in 1629, leading to one of the most infamous tales of mutiny in Dutch history books. Upon marooning, the ship’s under-merchant, Jeronimus Cornelisz – who in…

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