Yet this is what most of the Faithful always do. Spend half the time checking out each other’s body language and reactions to events, looking for tells. But of course scrutinise anyone and you’ll find suspicious behaviour. And if you have an ally scrutinising that person too, and agreeing with you, then soon you have proper demonisation taking place, a groupthink identifying of another. The social media metaphor is strong in this show, in round tables – like poor innocent Niko who may well be on his way out in the next episodes – once a bad apple is identified, they are swiftly cancelled. But it’s also horribly revealing about how humans work in general. Rounding suddenly on someone who is weak, who’s behaviour isn’t correct, who may be a wrong ‘un in the group.
