The Fortune Hotel viewers have threatened to stop watching after the latest episode dropped on another cliff hanger.
For the uninitiated, the ITV gameshow sees 10 couples try to lie, cheat and deceive their way to winning £250,000.
Upon arrival at the luxurious hotel in the Caribbean, each pair is given a suitcase, eight of which are empty, one containing an early check-out card, and one with the jackpot cash prize.
However, following various challenges, the contestants try and swap or steal cases to guess which one has the all-important money, while the lucky pair in hold of it must convince the others that theirs isn’t worth taking.
So far the series, which has been compared to Claudia Winkleman’s The Traitors, has brought us some pretty dramatic exits, and fans are not only begging for more, but begging ITV to drop the episodes on its streaming service.
After a huge twist on Wednesday introduced by host Stephen Mangan, the couples decided whether to keep or swap their cases with another pair, with some making the tough choice based on deliberations and guesses, and others on a simple ‘rock, paper, scissors’ game.
The final moments saw partners Gary and Lesley (who, unbeknownst to the others, did have the early checkout card) decide to swap their case with Aysha and Samm, who admitted he’d be ‘p**sed’ if handed the doomed case.
However, when it came to their turn to swap, married pair Aysha and Samm had all the power to take out another couple, with the latter admitting there was ‘no room for emotions’ in the all-important decision.
But instead of swapping back with Gary and Lesley, the couple suggested they might hand the case – assuming it to be the unlucky one – to the strongest pairing in the competition, playing a tactical game to win their way forward.
‘Everyone’s here to win, so we can’t go soft,’ Aysha warned in the final moments, as the show ended on a cliff hanger and left fans fuming.
Viewers were fuming at the episode ending without a big reveal, with @_a1ien writing: ‘Naw I’m actually no gonna continue watching #TheFortuneHotel if they don’t show the entire program and cut it off like that wtf.’
Simon_Hadley said: ‘I can’t believe #thefortunehotel has finished like that tonight. How am I going to contain myself for 23 hours???’
‘Omg @ITV, why do you do this to us! I can’t believe im so invested in a briefcase,’ @wiganlass2k15 added.
‘Nerve wracking’ @adderladders added, while @iPhonie said: ‘Aaahhhh loving #TheFortuneHotel! A mix of Traitors, meets Deal or No Deal meets White Lotus But damn the end of that ep has me STRESSED!’
‘Really getting into #thefortunehotel starting to get really good just wish I could watch the rest on #ITVHUB now,’ @PaulJohnArnold1 said.
It wasn’t until Thursday that we found out that Gary and Lesley had been dumped from the game, as the challenges and deception continued and the suitcases continued to be swapped around.
And as the players turned even more tactical, viewers branded it ‘incredible television’, predicting the second half of the season would ‘go off the scale’.
Fan account SuperTV wrote: ‘Oh okay, that was INCREDIBLE TELEVISION The second half of this series is going to go off the scale omfg.’
They added: ‘#TheFortuneHotel was a slow burner as expected but the game play going on in episode 4 is incredible television.’
This comes after unlucky players Abbie and Tracey opened up about their experience on the show after a very dramatic exit.
The mother-daughter duo told Metro.co.uk: ‘It was an amazing experience, however, it had its moments where it was very stressful, like, you didn’t know what was coming next, and that was constantly on your mind.’
Recalling the tense scenes in the Lady Luck Bar, Tracey went on: ‘It was so intense, my mouth was drier than it’s ever been in my entire life, and if you’d looked down and seen my legs, my legs were shaking!’
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The Fortune Hotel airs every Monday-Thursday at 9pm on ITV1, ITVX, STV and STV Player from May 13.
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