A lot of this centered on Yu Ling, who formed a "throuple" alliance with Alyssa and Bru that included a ton of suggestive three-way talk amid their strategy sessions.
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Whether it was sex therapist Alyssa and her vulva pillow giving "Carol" (really Carol's son) advice about how to spice up her marriage or the heavy flirt energy Parker was giving John when they met up after she got Blocked, the air was thick with sexual tension. This was maybe the best thing about this season's The Circle: the horny energy was off the charts. In fact, it ended being a remarkably twist-light season, aside from the participation of a certain late '90s pop group that we'll get to shortly. No such unbalanced twists came in season four. That twist was a gag, but that didn't make it any more fair to Michelle. In the span of just a couple day, no only was Michelle eliminated, buit she her identity stripped from her. The rest of the players then had to vote for who they thought the real Michelle was, and with only a day's experience to go on, they chose wrong. The Twists Didn't Unfairly Damage Anyone's GameĮven if you checked out in the middle of the show's lackluster season three, you probably remember the saga of poor Michelle, who survived the first episode's Blocking only to have the blocked pair, sisters Ava & Chanel, get to choose to clone one of the remaining players, and they picked Michelle.
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This feels like a good evolution in the game, one that will allow catfish to roam free and play their own games, whether or not they're found out. But she was an asset to players like Bru, a 25-year-old radio host and TikTok personality, and so he kept her safe over other, more "genuine" players. This is how it went with "Carol" (really Carol's son John), who by the midpoint of the season everybody more or less assumed was not really a 56-year-old woman. But as the game progressed, further catfish were suspected but ultimately allowed to keep playing their game and were either protected or targeted in the game based soley on their social connections. Was there still catfish hunting in season four? Absolutely. The first player eliminated, Paul, was targeted mostly because he was really Parker, Paul's 21-year-old daughter, who turned out to be pretty terrible at portraying a 56-year-old man. The problem, as it presented itself over the show's first three seasons, is that hunting down catfish became the only motivation for voting anyone out, meaning that players who were catfishing had only one route to winning the game: staying completely undetected, as season two champion DeLeesa did when she catfished as her hot husband Trevor. Besides, nothing bonds strangers better than a shared task that ostracizes a third person for a perceived social sin (in this case: being ingenuine). This makes sense since there's so little concrete motivation to target any one player over another that sniffing out catfish and voting them out gives the gama purpose. Catfishing has brought The Circle some of its most memorable characters, and it's also provided the thrust for a ton of game strategy over the seasons. This has always meant that players can - and are often encouraged to - play as "catfish," i.e. Players are isolated in separate little pod suites of an apartment building where they play a game of social strategy, connections, and alliances, all via a social interface known as "The Circle." All communication is done by text messaging - either to the group or in private chats - and the only visual information is conveyed through photos.
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The premise of The Circle is so simple, it can be infuriating to first-time viewers that this is actually a TV show with a (as of this season) $150,000 prize.
Catfish Hunting Was Fun, But it Wasn't the Only Thing That Mattered Season four premiered earlier this month with a mandate to get The Circle back to the kind of fun and addictive reality competition we fell in love with, and lo and behold, it delivered. With the season's final episode dropping today, what was it that brought the show back from the brink? 1. After its first season charmed audiences with its low-fi, social-media-based strategy gameplay, and Season 2 perfected the formula with some engaging characters and a perfectly executed catfishing champion, the show's third season struggled to find a groove and ended up limping across the finish line with an unpopular winner. For a show that's released a marathon four seasons in a little over two years, it shouldn't surprise that The Circle would be suffering from some creative exhaustion as it headed into season four.
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