![]() All-Cheering All the Time: Chyna does this during a scene in "ParticipANTs", but Lexi encourages her to keep cheering, to the point that she could lose her voice and not be able to audition for the school musical.Farm 2" features this number of Olive clones. She did a full body giftwrapping of herself! She made a helicopter out of ballooons that worked. Achievements in Ignorance: Paisley, sometimes to Reality Warper levels.And, to a lesser degree, Chyna's song in "managemANT".This could also be applied to Fletcher with Chyna, but not as much.Abhorrent Admirer: Angus to Olive is one of the rare male cases of this.These tropes are exceptional, exceptional! On December 26, 2013, McClain confirmed on Twitter that the series' third season would be its last the series finale aired March 21, 2014. Hashimoto, of the Hashimoto Soda Company in Season 3. Its presence in the Disney Channel Live-Action Universe is due to a Tears of Blood poster appearing in the background and the appearance of Mr. Like many Disney Channel sitcoms, it serves as a vehicle for their new singing star, China Anne McClain. ![]() ![]() The series follows three best friends, Chyna Parks ( China Anne McClain), Olive Doyle ( Sierra McCormick) and Fletcher Quimby ( Jake Short), who are part of the Advanced Natural Talents program, or A.N.T., which allows gifted middle schoolers to go to High School immediately. Farm is a 2011 series airing on the Disney Channel. And that's largely due to the incredible people on show, which is why we're highlighting the cast and their Instagrams below, so you can keep up with the crew long after you're done binging.A.N.T. In a crowded TV landscape filled with a lot of noise, Cheer unsurprisingly yells the loudest, but remarkably says so much and with the most heart. (No spoilers here, so you’ll have to watch to see how they fare. I’ve yet to find a person who wasn’t moved by the 2019 Navarro Dawgs team and their quest for a national title. But, I swear on my love for Jerry that I have not let my state champion cheerleading titles or personal nostalgia cloud my journalistic skepticism and objectivity. And watching Morgan do her baskets was somewhat of a Proustian madeleine for me. I should disclose that I was former cheerleader. It’s that intersection of their lives on and off the mat, and relationships with each other that make every moment enthralling. All while your heart is broken and circumstance has crushed your spirit. And in an emotionally overwhelming way, the same parallel is drawn in their own lives. The routine on the mat demands that they do everything perfectly and feign happiness while doing it (with broken ribs, no sleep, torn ACLs, sprained ankles, you name it). In fact, some of them have pasts so bleak, it’s hard to believe they’re able to propel themselves forward - and I mean that just as much figuratively as I do literally. ![]() And though their paths converge on the mat, the roads that lead them there were wildly divergent. If you haven’t already watched Cheer, Netflix’s riveting six-part docuseries about Navarro College’s cheer squad and their ACL-tearing quest for the school’s 14 th national cheerleading title, I have but one question for you: WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? (And, yes, I’m yelling that!) You might think it's about competitive cheerleading, and, sure, that’s the premise, but at its core, it’s about identity and circumstance and family and trauma and success and failure and resilience and so much more.īut if you have already started binging the addictive series, you know that although Cheer revolves around the Navarro team and Coach Monica Aldama - their fearless (and occasionally fearsome) leader - it also gives us glimpse into the lives of five cheerleaders: La’Darius Marshall, Morgan Simianer, Jerry Harris, Gabi Butler, and Lexi Brumback.ĭirector Greg Whitely (of Last Chance U fame) brilliantly highlights how their desire for consistency and acceptance hurdles their dark pasts and current pressures.
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