The Circle

The ultimate social media game of strategy is back,

where players can pretend to be any identity they want to try to win.

With more twists and turns than ever before,

can they survive to the end,

or will they be blocked and replaced by someone new?

With $100,000 on the line,

honey, nothing is off-limits.

This is The Circle.

Yeah, you heard me.

Just like an ex sliding into your DMs after you got your life together,

we've been gone for a while, but now we're back.

And at the end, The Circle will give away 100 grand

to one lucky person who lands at the top in the ultimate popularity game.

Time to meet our first player.

Ooh-wee! Yittadee!

Circle, I'm here!

Let's go!

My fortress! My kitchen!

Oh, my mama would love this.

-Oh, my apple! -

Very feng shui home. Oh!

Let's go!

We out here!

Guys, is everyone else's phone on silent or...

- -You know?

My name is Calvin. I'm 30 years old, and I'm a private chef.

I'm also a trainee firefighter.

So on my days off, I will be saving cats from trees.

What's not to love?

When it comes to women?

Oh. My charm works 99.9% of the time.

The secret is eye contact and confidence. If you're confident, ladies will love you.

So, going into The Circle, I'm gonna be 100% genuine.

I'm very, very competitive.

There's 100 grand here. It's a competition.

So if I have to manipulate a few people to win the game, then so be it.

Befriend all the guys,

and flirt with all the women.

I have the looks, I have the brain, and, being a chef,

I would be stirring the pot.

I will definitely crank up that heat. I'm gonna sprinkle a little salt, bae.

And it's mine. The Circle is mine.

Before you crank the heat or stir any pots,

you gotta set your Circle profile.

Circle, take me to my private albums.

Ooh-wee!

Circle, if you go to the bottom right...

This will be my profile picture. This is my sister's wedding.

I look very clean. I think people would warm to this photo.

Circle, set this as my profile photo.

I'm sure the ladies will like that.

Put my age as 30 years old.

I'm going in as me. I'm gonna be a hundred percent honest.

Occupation, let's go as private chef, 'cause that's what I am.

I think that would be a great way to flirt with the ladies,

'cause, I mean, who doesn't love food? Let's call it. Who doesn't love food?

Hometown, we'll put Miami, Florida.

About Me. You know, if I'm just myself,

then I think people will warm to me just off of my... my energy,

and hopefully, everyone respects me for who I am.

Now that Calvin is safely inside,

The Circle is letting the next player enter the building,

'cause we can't have these people ever see or hear one another.

Oh my gosh. Oh my God!

Honey, this is so southern!

Oh my God!

How cute!

How romantic!

Oh, honey, yes! Oh!

Now we talking business!

Oh!

This is nice!

Oh!

Everything's suede and velvet!

Honey, I feel like Elvis!

Oh, Lord have mercy!

This is so exciting! Oh my God! There's a little Circle thing! I love it!

My name is Michelle, and I am from Pacolet, South Carolina.

Don't let the age fool you.

I have the mind of a 20-year-old.

People from the south are just generally wonderful people.

We can be sweet to your face and say "Hey, how you doing, hun?"

And whenever they walk off, we're like,

"Did you see how big her ass has done got?"

That's awful, isn't it?

I'm going into The Circle as myself,

'cause I don't believe I could be anybody else but myself.

My strategy is I'm going to be The Circle Mom.

I'm gonna win everybody over,

but if I don't like what I hear and what I see, then they gotta go.

When Mom is mad, that's it.

I'm gonna be in The Circle, little old me from South Carolina.

They're gonna love me, I tell you.

How could they not? Y'all do, right?

Circle, take me to Loving Life.

Oh, my heart's just flyin'.

Let's open the photo on the left.

See, that looks like me.

I'm smiling and happy,

and everybody's a sucker for cute little doggies, so...

It shows that I'm a mom, you know?

I could've had a better hair day, but that's okay.

Circle, make this my profile picture.

I love it!

So, uh, About Me.

Okay, "I am a wife and mother to four children."

"Crazy face emoji."

Um, "I love doing open mic night comedy, fishing, and enjoy outdoor life."

I definitely want to give them that mother figure

and let them understand

that I am somebody they can talk to and that they can trust.

I'm gonna be me.

We got a private chef and a dog mom,

but if there's one thing we always need to make a Circle party complete, it's...

Hey! Ow!

Ow! Hey!

Ooh, this bed is comfortable!

...someone dancin' on the bed, holdin' a bottle of champagne.

"Ain't nothing like the real thing." And I am the real thing.

Yes!

Mmm!

I am ready for my close-up.

My name is Keisha, but you can call me Crazy Kai.

I'm from Nashville, Tennessee.

I am definitely a southern belle.

Yes, ma'am. No, sir.

I would describe myself as honest, super-smart, and a little devious.

I will throw somebody under the bus and ask God for forgiveness afterwards.

My dad did used to be an FBI agent,

so, of course, he knows exactly where we are right now.

He told me, "Make sure to always read between the lines."

I have a hell of a high bullshit radar.

My strategy in The Circle is going to be CCCF,

and that stands for compliments, comedy, and commonalities.

Let's find something in common.

"I noticed that I saw daisies in the back of your profile. I love daisies."

With a sprinkle of fantasy on top to get everybody on my side,

I'll be anything you want me to be.

So there is no one or nothing

that is gonna stop me from getting that $100,000.

Okay. Whoo!

It's time to get down and dirty.

Circle, take me to my photo albums.

Ooh!

She cute on here. Ha!

Okay, we don't wanna seem intimidating. That is not what I'm going for.

Circle, can you please open up my Selfies album?

You know what? Circle,

can you open up the picture at the top with my two bun buns?

Yes. Okay.

She's cute. She's got a smile, got the bun buns.

You can't be scared of somebody with bun buns.

Especially not when you call it bun buns.

Eyebrows on fleek. Eyelashes gone, ooh, to the gods.

Circle, I want to make this my profile picture.

Okay, it's here now. Okay.

So far, nothin' but the truth.

I hope this next player might not stick to the straight and narrow though.

I never thought I could wrap my personality into an apartment.

The only thing I would have different

is I would just have a man right there, shirtless, sitting waiting on me.

His name would be Enrique.

Hi, my name is Matthew. I'm 29 years old.

I'm a health and fitness consultant. I'm born and raised Long Island, baby.

My social media, as a health and fitness consultant,

it's a lot of shirtless selfies.

People, for the most part, think I am vain and shallow.

People are more likely to trust people with a less intense look,

so that is the reason I'm catfishing as my best friend Ashley.

When we were in chemistry class together,

she pulled out a box of graham crackers and chocolate,

and she started making s'mores,

and from that moment on, we have just been attached at the gay hip.

People's first impression of Ashley are, "I can trust her."

She's delicate. She's less intense. She is soft.

You see her, and wanna pick her up and slap her with love. You just...

She's wonderful.

Being Ashley, I'll be the guys' best friend

and the girls' confidants.

Confidence? Confidants? Did I say that right?

Ashley, to me, is a soul mate, because we know each other so well.

I'm gonna sell the package, and they're gonna buy it.

I will probably miss being able to flirt as me,

but we'll make up for it in other ways.

I'll make a little Play-Doh boyfriend and pretend to flirt with him!

Winning is not only an option.

It is the option.

I want to win so badly, it eats me.

All right, let's work on this bio.

We gotta be really, really smart here about this.

I wanna make sure people get a full spectrum of Ashley,

AKA, obviously me, and our personality right off the bat.

Circle, "Long Island Girl,

comma,

from the bagels to the pizza,

but truly believe

home is the company you keep."

"I have a fear of ostriches..."

Totally true.

"...and a love for the beach."