When Female Athletes Take the Spotlight on TV
This story contains spoilers through Episode 3 of USA’s Dare Me and through Season 1 of Netflix’s Spinning Out.
“There’s something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls,” observes one such teenage girl in the opening minutes of the USA drama Dare Me. It’s a grim statement, the type that belongs in a ruminative noir. But Dare Me isn’t about hard-boiled detectives; it’s about high-school cheerleaders.
Films such as , , and have made room for about the ambitions of teen athletes in female-fronted sports. But TV rarely tells such narratives, preferring instead to feature these characters when they’re male-centric sports. As much attention as cheerleading may appear to get, a drama about gymnasts, ended in 2012.
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