Four reasons why the Circle is essential quarantine TV viewing

Hello readers, I'm currently split between writing stuff and seeing if I can pitch it to bigger places. This is a pitch I'm sending elsewhere but hopefully it's interesting enough on its own to put on a blog. 

The show, which is currently airing its Brazil season, involves contestants in various rooms of an apartment who are in isolation for three weeks and only talk to each other through social media. Before the virus caused such massive shifts to our world, the American version of this show was already among the buzziest things on television. Now that the quarantine has gone into effect, this is surreptitiously one of the most prescient mirrors into our present-day state.

-The show is a mirror for our situations but shows us the best of what we could be

The contestants are quarantined but that's not getting them down. The characters dance for no one but themselves (in one of the most bizarre and best sequences of the show), keep themselves happy and busy, make incredible friendships, and occasionally fall for one another (or who they think those other people are)

-It's so clever, that it can easily be considered the next step in evolution for reality TV

The contestants don't just live there doing nothing but have "Big Brother/Survivor" style strategy. The twists are that conversations happen in a combination of single or group conversations and all-in chats. Additionally, catfishing is allowed and encouraged. With no physical space, contestants can't know who's talking to whom or if contestants are who they say they are

-The show is all about authenticity and loyalty (or the perception of those two things)

The show is a fascinating social experiment, because it is so relevant to the way that we present ourselves in a society in which we are freer than ever to play around with our identity in online spaces. And in the past three or four weeks, that's even more the case!

-The show is one of the few feel-good moments we can experience as Americans

If you're feeling that the Americans are bungling things up and haven't been doing anything right for a while, these American contestants are great at supporting one another and communicating. The Brazilians currently playing this game are more judgmental, less communicative, and bad at distinguishing relationships. True, it's a sampling of only 15 people from each country, but do the best of us not exist in those people?