![]() ![]() Granted, the most popular contestants are the ones who win, so the “everyone is friends!” premise doesn’t always ring true. ✌ #TheCircleNetflix /KqCUgpUTaH- Gianna Castoria January 2, 2020 Bless those sweet cinnamon roll darlings. ![]() And Netflix viewers seem to have embraced it as genuine.Ĭhris and Shooby are to be saved at all costs. It’s less Big Brother and more The Great British Compliment-Off. Unlikely as it might sound, The Circle differentiates itself from other relationship-focused reality competition shows by emphasizing that, in fact, its contestants really like each other - or at least, they’re really good at pretending they do. Improbable as it might seem, that premise boils down to a subversion of the famous reality TV code: What if everyone was here to make friends? But that’s because you haven’t gotten to the real premise of The Circle. So far, this probably sounds like a setup for typical reality show drama. If contestants become popular enough, they become “influencers” with the power to “block” the least popular players, hence ejecting them from the game - at which point they find out who was real and who was fake. people using fake pictures or even assuming fake identities, to try to game the system and gain more popularity. Naturally, there are several “catfish” among them - i.e. The contestants all reside in a single building (meant to be somewhere generically American but really filmed in England along with all the other different regional variants of the series) where they’re prevented from having any contact with the outside world or each other - except, that is, for the in-house group social media network.Ĭontestants can only communicate virtually through a platform called the Circle, and thus must use their assortment of profile pics to represent themselves to one another. The fake premise we can sum up as: “ Big Brother, but on the internet.” For the duration of the game show, its contestants compete to become a social media platform’s most popular “influencer” to win a $100,000 prize. It’s fitting that The Circle, Netflix’s unassuming new reality competition show, actually has two premises - one real, one fake. ![]()
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