The Circle

TV Show • 2020 • Reality  

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Synopsis

Status and strategy collide in this social experiment and competition show where online players flirt, befriend and catfish their way toward $100,000.
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Does the dog die?
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Does a pet die?
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Is an animal sad?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Abuse
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Anonymous
Talk of.
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quinnalec
a large portion of the game is tricking others about their identities, but it’s not malicious
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Is someone stalked?
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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There is a lot of drinking.
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Animal
Are animals abused?
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Does a cat die?
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Does an animal die?
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Is there a dead animal?
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Does a horse die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there bugs?
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Are there snakes?
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Does a dragon die?
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Assault
Is someone sexually assaulted?
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Is someone tortured?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Does a head get squashed?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is there a hanging?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Carlos
There are scenes where participants shave their faces in the bathroom. But there is no cutting in at least the first season.
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there amputation?
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Does someone break a bone?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Children
Does a kid die?
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Family
Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Does a parent die?
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Participant talks about how her mother died when she’s was very young
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Does someone cheat?
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Anonymous
They are mislead.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Fear
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Shaii
there are a lot of alerts that can sometimes make you jump a little if you aren’t fully listening to the narrator (she gives little hints that an alert is going to come up.)
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Is someone possessed?
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Anonymous
Nothing sexual, no nudity.
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Are there ghosts?
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Are there clowns?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Is there audio gore?
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Medical
Are needles/syringes used?
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Is electro-therapy used?
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Does someone have cancer?
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Mental Health
Does someone die by suicide?
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Does someone self harm?
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Anonymous
But talk of.
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Anonymous
Talk of.
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Talk of.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Shaii
no anxiety attacks, but there is serveral moments where participants mention that they are shaking and their voices are shaky.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
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Shaii
few moments in the introductions that could be seen as that, there is also a clip later in the series that is pretty sudden where the lit up circle on the apartment building flashes different bright colors for about 5 or 10 seconds
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Pregnancy
Does someone miscarry?
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Is there childbirth?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Are there abortions?
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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Are there fat jokes?
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Carlos
Not with malice.

Many contestants are what the show calls catfishes; they're pretending to be someone they're not. Some pretend to be a different gender than they are, so these catfishes are misgendered by other contestants.

For example, a man uses photos of his girlfriend (with her permission) and actively pretends to be a cis woman.

Contestants speculate about who they think is a catfish, and some have made comments like "she might not even be a woman, she could be a man."
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Is there hate speech?
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Does the black guy die first?
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Sex
Are there incestuous relationships?
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Anonymous
Only kissing shown.
A lot of sexual talk.
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Does a plane crash?
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Violence
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Does someone drown?
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Is there gun violence?
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