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By Mike Redmond | News | April 23, 2026
The Traitors has been a breakout hit for Peacock, thanks in no small part to Alan Cumming clearly having a ball vamping his way through every episode, so it didn’t take long for other streamers to ask, “Why aren’t we doing something like that?”
Enter Parker Posey, who will be lending her dry wit to Hulu’s newest reality series The Mob:
“The Mob” is a high-stakes reality competition series that sends a group of celebrities to a lavish Italian villa where they will shake down, hustle and whack their way to win up to $250,000 in cash prizes. Every episode, they will tackle mob movie-inspired jobs to survive. But every mob family needs a don, and whoever they choose will have absolute power — deciding who makes money, who stays, and who ultimately gets whacked. In a game where power demands absolute loyalty, can the don stay in control, or will the family rise up and overthrow them?
If that sounds a whole lot like The Traitors, that’s because it’s literally from the same producers. It’s even got a cast full of random reality stars and at least two legitimate actors, who thankfully aren’t Michael Rapaport. Seriously, nobody put that man on TV again. I’m begging you.
Via THR:
The cast includes Willam Belli (RuPaul’s Drag Race), Demi Engemann (The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives), Maria Georgas (The Bachelor season 28), Joe Gorga (The Real Housewives of New Jersey), Harry Jowsey (Let’s Marry Harry), Chelsea Lazkani (Selling Sunset), Debi Mazar (Younger), Bella Palk (Love Overboard), Shane Parton (the as yet unaired season 22 of The Bachelorette), rapper Romeo, Dancing With the Stars judge Bruno Tonioli and former Sopranos regular Aida Turturro.
Can The Mob muscle in on the same magic as The Traitors, or will it sleep with the fishes? Judging by a trailer that’s full of even worse puns than that, yeah, I dunno. You really need someone saying “MURDER” with a Scottish accent. It papers over a lot. Don’t ask me how.
