Alert! Netflix Announces ‘The Circle’ Season 3 Premiere Date

ALERT—! Netflix has a doozy of a message for every single fan of The Circle: Season 3 of the hit reality show will kick off on Netflix on September 8. That’s really soon—and we cannot wait.

The big Circle Season 3 announcement came as part of Netflix’s Summer 2021 TCA session. As with previous seasons, The Circle Season 3 will unfold across four weeks. The first batch of episodes will premiere on Wednesday, September 8. Then the next few episodes will premiere a week later on September 15, and then another batch will drop on September 22. And finally, the grand finale will go down on September 29. Get ready to spend the month of September with your new fave contestants and catfish.

If you’re a newbie to The Circle and still reading this article, here’s how The Circle works: people are dropped into their own apartments, separated from the rest of the cast, where they’re only able to communicate via chatrooms and DMs. Some are genuine, some are catfish, some are somewhere in between—and they’re all vying to be the most popular player in the game. It’s a game show, sure, but it’s also a wild social experiment that shows how genuine connections can be formed between total strangers.

Now, for every Circle superfan, this is a major moment because it totally confirms Netflix’s commitment to the Circle franchise. Two seasons in one year? We are stunned! This is a big deal because the show’s UK counterpart, the OG Circle, was shockingly canceled earlier this year. We still don’t know what that means in the long run, and we’re still waiting for Netflix to add the UK seasons. But at least for now, the US spinoff is alive and chatting and gearing up for a whole new season.

The Circle returns to Netflix with Season 3 on September 8.

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