The secrets that make The Circle the best reality show on television On paper, There are few things more excruciatingly boring than watching someone else scroll through their social media timeline. The posts all blur together, flicked past too quickly to retain meaning, creating a disorienting barrage of half-read information. No matter how much time you may spend on social media, or enjoy using your own account on a certain platform, another person’s point-of-view will always feel irrelevant – driven by different interests, different connections and a different life. For these reasons,
The Circle – the Channel 4 reality show where players compete to be the most popular person on a fake social media platform – should be a mind-numbing disaster, rather than an obsessive breakout hit bought by Netflix and adapted into three different languages. Contestants can enter the show as themselves, catfish as someone they think would be more popular, or just bend the truth