Cheer on Netflix. WTAF?

[vivacian]

I'm in awe of the kids' athleticism, but the rest? Monica? Texas? I have no words.

[IHaveBrilloHair]

I'd forgotten all about this but I loved it so I'm watching again.

[soulfuleyes]

Old thread, sorry but Monica never went near any of them when they were injured, so telling , they might as well have been robots. She doesn't give a shit about them really, only how they serve her. Her initial feeling was, oh shit the programme.

[StreetwiseHercules]

It amazes me they have any time for study or any actual life, such is the education system’s seeming obsession with sports, cheer, glee clubs, whatever.

So weird.

[pollywobble]

@GreytExpectations people who have been abused often have a greater ability to cut off from physical pain too

[RandomMess]

If they weren't on the college team benefitting from the scholarship most would had still been on top level All Star teams which are just as brutal in terms of danger and commitment 🤷🏽‍♀️ objectively its a fairly insane sport...

[GreytExpectations]

Funny how many of them were quite vulnerable adults.

I think you are looking for something that isn't there. A lot of people who come from broken households or abuse find comfort in organised sports and activities. It gives them a family, community and structure that they lacked in their childhood. It's quite disrespectful what you are suggesting.

[MozzchopsThirty]

It's on my planner!

I need a good month off work with everything I have to watch

[IHaveBrilloHair]

Yes!

[MozzchopsThirty]

I thought this was a fiction series
Is it actually a documentary??

[IHaveBrilloHair]

I'm interested in the schooling too.

[TheChosenTwo]

I watched it over a few nights and was horrified and fascinated in equal measure.
It was disturbing seeing the codependency of some of those relationships and I couldn’t believe the pressure those young people put those bodies under.
Monica struck me as a very cold hearted and ruthless businesswoman. She gets the job done but at what cost?
When that guy had that back injury she kept pushing him - back injuries shouldn’t be dismissed and she was not only risking his health but that of the girls he was physically supporting up in the air. And those girls with bust ribs/shoulders etc, it’s a brutal sport along with many others.
I suppose to be ‘the best’ a certain level of self sacrifice has to be expected but that was a step too far for me!
They didn’t say (or possibly I just missed) how much schooling they were doing through the days and how many hours a day they were training for, I’d be interested to hear if anyone knows.

[bugbhaer]

Funny how many of them were quite vulnerable adults.

[GreytExpectations]

If someone is seriously injured does the college pay the hospital bill?

Why would they? These are adults making the decision to take those risks.

[GreytExpectations]

A lot of you are overreacting. They are not kids they are all over 18, as that's the age you go to college in America, so they are adults who are choosing to do this sport and stay on the team. It's hard work and dangerous, just like any other sport.

[Werking]

On the other hand ... I do judge them for not seeming to allow her much if any downtime.

[Werking]

Gabby seemed remarkably down-to-earth and generously-spirited towards her teammates for a child YouTube star with apparently pushy parents. I thought she cane across really well. Maybe her parents aren’t so bad and have raised her with manners and humility.

[covetingthepreciousthings]

I couldn't decide how I felt about Monica, on the one hand I thought it was well handled with the revenge porn, but with the injuries, I thought she came across cold. I also think she obviously wants kids who have had bad upbringings, as like another poster said, they would be less likely to have parents turning up to question injuries etc.

Felt very sorry for Morgan and Lexi. Also for La'Darius, I could understand why he would get frustrated with his partner, and his upbringing sounded horrendous too.

I just hope they all go on to have some success in what they do.

No idea why Morgan's dad didn't get done for leaving them like that?!

Also Gabbi's parents were awful, and I felt sorry for her too, being pushed into all that.

[peppinanna]

After seeing La'Darius upbringing it does change my perception of him and I got emotional when his brother was watching him perform 😭

[Werking]

I thought she handled those things impressively.

But there was a bit that chilled me. It was when Morgan told her she’d been advised by the trainer to go the ER to have her ribs “popped back in” or something, and Monica looked steely and said “cute” and went back to looking at her screen. She didn’t express any concern , instead radiated frostiness as if she’d been betrayed by both Morgan and the trainer.

[IHaveBrilloHair]

Yes, I did see that, but I wondered how she would feel if it it was her own kids.
It's easy to be supportive when they are making money for you, and making you look good.
I'm just not sure about her.

[PleaseHelpM3]

There's footage of Monica driving and chatting about homophobia. She says something like, "These are my boys, and I'm not backing down." I think that's probably quite a controversial stance in Corsicana and I thought good for her.

There's also a storyline around revenge porn which I thought she handled fantastically.

Not everyone's cup of tea but to me she seems like one of life's good guys.

[RandomMess]

To compete as a UK club I believe you need insurance (certainly we pay membership fees that include life insurance) and I would expect it is standard for all sports scholarships in the US to include medical insurance cover, American football is pretty dangerous too even with the body armour???

In one episode they switch flyers in a stunt group with the purpose of weeding out who is the point of failure, no one needs to be told who it is once that is done even if a participant doesn't want to admit it. The stunt group has to work as a team, only person out of the 3-5 members can make it fail... always easiest to blame the flyer through

[thenightsky]

They don't seem to get properly checked out medically when they bang their heads badly. Unless that chap making them touch their noses and then sit down for a day is medically trained. If someone is seriously injured does the college pay the hospital bill?

I'm only on ep 2, so perhaps my questions will be answered later on.

[IHaveBrilloHair]

I'm not trying to excuse La'Darius as such, but he clearly felt, (wrongly imo), that his partner was letting him down.
If she fails him, he fails, and then what?
With Monica never taking a break from pushing its perhaps unhealthy all round.
Without the team, Monica is nothing too, so she has to keep them under control, and much easier with kids who haven't had a good upbringing...

[IHaveBrilloHair]

Does anyone think that although La'Darius' behaviour was wrong, it maybe comes from a place of having nothing else but this?
It makes me wonder about Monica, and how healthy it is.
Did she talk about her own kids and what sports they were involved in?
She did mention in the talk about Texas that it is generally conservative and believes in marriage between men and women that the boys in particular felt this was their only place for acceptance.

I'd have liked to see more about the academics too, as in that sense, only one of them made it