The second season of the American reality competition streaming series The Circle began on April 14, 2021, on Netflix, and concluded on May 5, 2021.

Like the previous season, players compete against each other to become the most popular, but do not actually meet their competitors.

However, the contestants do not meet face-to-face during the course of the competition, as they each live in their own individual apartment.

They communicate solely using their profiles on a specially-designed social media app that gives them the ability to portray themselves in any way they choose.

A video message is shown to the remaining players to reveal if they were real or fake the day after.

Jack Atkins, Savannah Palacio, and Courtney Revolution starred on Floor Is Lava.

[8] Courtney and DeLeesa St. Agathe starred on Netflix’s Reality Games and were two of the four players representing team "The Circle".

The first eight players are introduced (Bryant, Savannah, Chloe, Courtney, "Trevor"/DeLeesa, "Emily"/Jack, "River"/Lee, Terilisha) and begin to create their profiles.

The Circle Chat is immediately opened, prompting suspicion against "Trevor", a single dad actually being played by his 32-year-old wife, DeLeesa.

Bryant begins a private chat with Courtney and offers to have his back throughout the game.

The players rate each other from one to seven, with Savannah and Terilisha being ranked as the Circle influencers.

The other four contestants begin to worry about potentially being eliminated, so they each start a conversation with an influencer.

New player Lisa joins the game, going undercover as her boss, NSYNC alum Lance Bass.

Savannah inadvertently reveals that Terilisha attempted to block Courtney, resulting in the two forming an alliance.

Terilisha creates a group chat with Chloe and "Emily"/Jack, in which she reveals her suspicions about Savannah.

Terilisha starts a chat with Courtney to let him know that Savannah is causing all of the drama.

The players get Terilisha's video in the newsfeed the next morning where she reveals she knows who "The Joker" is and what they said to Khat and Mitchell.

"Emily"/Jack and "Lance"/Lisa have their videos posted in the newsfeed and the players see they were both catfishing.

The circle chat opens and the players are unaware that "John"/Jack and Lisa are lurking.

No one says if "Emily"/Jack or "Lance"/Lisa visited them after being blocked, leading the players to think people are lying.

"Trevor"/DeLeesa starts to feel bad knowing she is catfishing but continues to flirt.

Mitchell and "Trevor"/DeLeesa form a plan to break up Courtney and "River"/Lee's alliance.