The Circle

The easiest way I can describe The Circle is a Social Media reality show. I have watched my fair share of reality shows they are usually cooking competition shows or Survivor or other shows like that. I am not a die hard fan of them, but I do watch them.

When I first heard what The circle was I thought what a lot of you may be thinking, it's just a group of people using Facebook. If that's what you are thinking then you are both right and wrong. The contestants use a custom social media platform. When they come into the game they can only post 1 photo and a short bio. Once they have their profile updated they can browse the other players profiles  and start chatting with them in a group chat or private chats. Once they get to know each other a little they rank all of the other players, and the 2 who are ranked highest are influencers who can eliminate 1 player.

One great thing about this show is that when someone gets eliminated they get to go and visit one of the other players face to face, and see if they are who they said they are or if they are a catfish. I personally can't get over how much I enjoyed this show, and I am hoping for another season of it from Netflix.

October Faction

When I first saw the preview for October Faction I was thinking this was another show targeted at the teenage audience, then i realized the TV-MA rating. When I saw that I decided to give it a try, and I was not disappointed.

The series is based on a comic series created by Steve Niles, and published by IDW Publishing. I personally have never heard of it before the Netflix series. That being said I have not heard of a lot of comic books outside of Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse comics.

At the time of this review there is only 1 season with 10 episodes. This series follows the Allen family, parents Fred and Deloris, and twin teenagers Viv and Geoff. The basic plot of the show is the parents are essentially secret agent monster hunters who take some time off when a family member passes away. The globetrotting family return to Fred and Deloris's home town to settle the affairs.

The primary "bag guy" in this season is a Warlock that was accidentally awakened. Her primary target is the Allen family because of events that happened in the past that will be made clear in later episodes. There are a lot of great parts to this series, but it is difficult to talk about without massive spoilers.

If you are a fan of Supernatural or other similar shows I have no doubt you will enjoy this series, and I am looking forward to another season in the future.