Kim Daily
The Litigator
WHERE THEY STANDEP 2
The first casualty of the season, murdered overnight before her basketball-coach cover ever paid off.
SEASON JOURNEY
total pts
Breakfast Without Kim
The season's first empty chair belongs to Kim, murdered overnight before her basketball-coach cover ever paid off.
Breakfast opened on an empty chair: Kim Daily, the Houston lawyer who entered the castle posing as a college basketball coach, was the season's first murder. At the Round Table the group never found its footing. Victor drew fire for grabbing a shield and for sweating through every accusation, answering with an instantly iconic "I'm a sweaty boy!" that turned heat into sympathy. The real damage came from Kriste, who seized on Madeline's offhand remark about feeling bad for Kim and framed it as good as a confession. The votes split 13 for Madeline, 7 for Victor, 1 for Kriste. Madeline was banished, and revealed as a Faithful. The cast burned its first vote on an innocent. The episode ended mid-cliffhanger, with Katie and Xavier still hunting the death warrants that decide who becomes the third Traitor and who becomes a casket.
Her coffin floats away at the first murder
Picked off first for being too sharp
DRAFT PROFILE
Number 3 of 22 on our preseason board, in tier A alongside 3 other players.
That is a bet on how many points Kim is worth to a fantasy roster, which is not the same bet as who wins. Points come from missions, shields, surviving the Round Table and calling a Traitor correctly, so a loud player who gets banished in episode six can outscore a quiet one who reaches the end.
Ranked before the premiere, from the cast announcement and nothing else. Nobody involved has seen a frame of the season.
BEFORE THEY PLAYEDWanted the cloak
Kim asked for the cloak before filming. That is appetite, not an assignment: casting decides, and plenty who campaign for it spend the season Faithful. What it does tell you is that Kim arrived willing to lie, which is the harder half to fake, and that a Faithful Kim is a player whose instincts point the wrong way at every Round Table.
What they told the cameras before filming, not a spoiler and not a prediction. Casting decides who wears the cloak.
IN THE CASTLE
A shared age, home state or trade is the first shortcut a Round Table reaches for.
- One of two players aged 37, in a cast running from 23 to 65.
Abbey Benjamin - One of two players from Texas.
Ben McDonnell - One of two lawyers in the castle.
Michael Foote - Sixteen of the twenty-two said before filming that they wanted the cloak. These are the other fifteen.
Arisa ThomasBen McDonnell
Clyde Moser
Jay Vinnedge
Joe Vanella
Katie Fites
Kriste Lewis
Logan SmithMichael Foote
Niyyah Hayes
Shane Beatty
Sherry Kuehl
Tomica Adams
Victor Vollbrechthausen
Xavier Scruggs
Counted from the twenty-two announced players, not from anything that has happened. The season has not started.
FUN FACTS
Kim is a Houston lawyer who walked into the castle running a cover story that she was a college basketball coach.
BackstoryEP 1
IN THE NEWS
Latest articles & podcasts featuring Kim
BIO
A lawyer from Houston, and blunt about the gap between what she shows and what she is doing. "I'm charming on the outside and cross-examining the hell out of you on the inside." Her other pitch is one word said twice: "Adaptability is my strength. Adaptability is my skill." One of two lawyers in the cast, which is a problem for both of them: the profession is the first thing a paranoid group holds against you.
🎯 FANTASY TAKE
A Round Table is a cross-examination with worse rules, and that is the day job. Top-tier deduction projection. The offsetting fact is structural: everyone knows what a lawyer is, so the job itself is the accusation, and this cast contains two of them.
STRATEGY
Expect them to prosecute someone early and to be prosecuted for it later.
Kim Daily
The Litigator
"A lawyer from Houston, and blunt about the gap between what she shows and what she is doing. "I'm charming on the outside and cross-examining the hell out of you on the inside." Her other pitch is one word said twice: "Adaptability is my strength. Adaptability is my skill." One of two lawyers in the cast, which is a problem for both of them: the profession is the first thing a paranoid group holds against you."
PLAYER INFO
WHERE THEY STANDEP 2
The first casualty of the season, murdered overnight before her basketball-coach cover ever paid off.
SEASON JOURNEY
total pts
Breakfast Without Kim
The season's first empty chair belongs to Kim, murdered overnight before her basketball-coach cover ever paid off.
Breakfast opened on an empty chair: Kim Daily, the Houston lawyer who entered the castle posing as a college basketball coach, was the season's first murder. At the Round Table the group never found its footing. Victor drew fire for grabbing a shield and for sweating through every accusation, answering with an instantly iconic "I'm a sweaty boy!" that turned heat into sympathy. The real damage came from Kriste, who seized on Madeline's offhand remark about feeling bad for Kim and framed it as good as a confession. The votes split 13 for Madeline, 7 for Victor, 1 for Kriste. Madeline was banished, and revealed as a Faithful. The cast burned its first vote on an innocent. The episode ended mid-cliffhanger, with Katie and Xavier still hunting the death warrants that decide who becomes the third Traitor and who becomes a casket.
Her coffin floats away at the first murder
Picked off first for being too sharp
DRAFT PROFILE
Number 3 of 22 on our preseason board, in tier A alongside 3 other players.
That is a bet on how many points Kim is worth to a fantasy roster, which is not the same bet as who wins. Points come from missions, shields, surviving the Round Table and calling a Traitor correctly, so a loud player who gets banished in episode six can outscore a quiet one who reaches the end.
Ranked before the premiere, from the cast announcement and nothing else. Nobody involved has seen a frame of the season.
BEFORE THEY PLAYEDWanted the cloak
Kim asked for the cloak before filming. That is appetite, not an assignment: casting decides, and plenty who campaign for it spend the season Faithful. What it does tell you is that Kim arrived willing to lie, which is the harder half to fake, and that a Faithful Kim is a player whose instincts point the wrong way at every Round Table.
What they told the cameras before filming, not a spoiler and not a prediction. Casting decides who wears the cloak.
IN THE CASTLE
A shared age, home state or trade is the first shortcut a Round Table reaches for.
- One of two players aged 37, in a cast running from 23 to 65.Abbey Benjamin
- One of two players from Texas.Ben McDonnell
- One of two lawyers in the castle.Michael Foote
- Sixteen of the twenty-two said before filming that they wanted the cloak. These are the other fifteen.Arisa ThomasBen McDonnellClyde MoserJay VinnedgeJoe VanellaKatie FitesKriste LewisLogan SmithMichael FooteNiyyah HayesShane BeattySherry KuehlTomica AdamsVictor VollbrechthausenXavier Scruggs
Counted from the twenty-two announced players, not from anything that has happened. The season has not started.
FUN FACTS
Kim is a Houston lawyer who walked into the castle running a cover story that she was a college basketball coach.
BackstoryEP 1
IN THE NEWS
Latest articles & podcasts featuring Kim
RATINGS
STRENGTHS
WEAKNESSES
🎯 FANTASY TAKE
A Round Table is a cross-examination with worse rules, and that is the day job. Top-tier deduction projection. The offsetting fact is structural: everyone knows what a lawyer is, so the job itself is the accusation, and this cast contains two of them.
STRATEGY
Expect them to prosecute someone early and to be prosecuted for it later.