Netflix's Flat "The Circle" | The New Yorker
Save this story for later. Last January, when the reality-competition series âThe Circleâ premièred, on Netflix, I watched a couple of episodes before deciding to drop it. The showâs premise felt thin and watery: in an apartment building in Salford, in Greater Manchester, U.K., a group of Americans engaged in the kind of rites familiar to viewers of âSurvivor,â âBig Brother,â and other âLord of the Fliesâ-style reality mainstays. Competing for a hundred-thousand-dollar prize, the contestants flirted and fought, forged and broke alliances, and pl...
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