Every single player from The Circle season 2, ranked
By Lacy Baugher
The Circle season 2 player: Deleesa/Trevor
There’s no doubt that Deleesa Carrasquillo is a great The Circle player. But how you feel about the game she’s chosen to play will likely depend on how much the scope of her lies bothers you. (And as someone who loved the goofy BFFs forever vibe of the series’ first season, there’s a lot about her gameplay that I wish were different.
Catfishing as a single dad version of her husband Trevor, Deleesha immediately built bonds with everyone and garnered sympathy and respect for her single-parent struggles. Granted, she has certainly put in the work. She showed up with a binder full of information about stuff guys like, she constantly monitored her tone in conversations, and she repeatedly pulled herself out of things she decreed to be girl fights because a real guy wouldn’t take part in them.
I mean, compare that to Jack’s atrocious knowledge of pretty much anything feminine – i.e. that “rose” in his profile picture is an Aperol Spritz, his terrible makeup challenge – and it’s clear that Deleesa at least respects her competitors enough to take her role as Trevor seriously. And she’s a smart, intuitive player – one of the few people who has pinged that there’s something “off” about River (i.e. that he is really an older man named Lee),
But she’s also lied – a lot. And it’s the lying, specifically her decision to encourage Chloe’s clearly very real affection in order to protect herself in the game – well. All may be fair in the name of playing for $100,000 but that doesn’t make it not icky. At some point, leading her on in this way feels cruel. Chloe’s hardly the only woman in the Circle that Trevor flirted with – but she is the only one that he promised something that seemed like a real future to, and it’s hard to see how that doesn’t genuinely hurt Chloe in the end.