The Circle (Channel 4), this week-long celebrity special will be a bewildering, almost hallucinatory tour of contemporary popular culture.
It’s a bit like those catch-up tapes they make for cabinet ministers so they don’t get caught out not knowing who was blown up in EastEnders last week. (Does that happen in EastEnders?
It’s been a while. ) The format’s premise is that a group of strangers volunteer to be imprisoned in a block of flats, only able to communicate with each other through The Circle, an invented local social media platform.
Through pictures and words they try to ascertain whether the other occupants of the block are really who they say they are, or if they are “catfishing”, lying about their identities.
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