Since the moment Cheer tumbled onto Netflix in January, everyone’s become obsessed with the cheerleading documentary series. Simone Biles wants to join the Navarro cheer squad, Ellen DeGeneres had the crew perform their 2019 nationals routine on her show, and the entire cast has joined their friend Gabi as certified cheer-lebrities on social media. Seriously,…
The man is pure sunshine. Just check his Instagram. His backstory is enough to make anyone’s heart melt. He is a consistent role model for every single person on the team, whether he was on the mat that day or not. But the thing about Jerry that stood out the most was his spectacular “mat…
Cheer on Netflix is everything I look for in a show: emotional, compelling, addicting, and so well-made. The six-episode documentary series (from the team behind another favorite, Last Chance U) takes you inside the world of competitive cheerleading at Navarro College, a small junior college in Corsicana, Texas. Perhaps you’re telling yourself that you aren’t…
I was 30 minutes into the Netflix movie Christmas Inheritance when I reached a breaking point. Before this, mind you, I’d watched no less than four other holiday movies of the same variety with my mother—and enjoyed them all. From Netflix’s The Princess Switch to Lifetime’s The Christmas Contract, these films were just the cheesy,…
In the early days of HBO’s wildly popular series, Game of Thrones, fans gleefully despised the Lannister twins, Jaime and Cersei. They were rich, they were ruthless, and even more despicable—they were having sex. They even pushed a little boy out a window to cover up their secret. Villains! Jaime has since adopted a more…