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Hit Netflix Series 'Cheer' is Misleading Viewers... Here's How:

Hit Netflix Series 'Cheer' is Misleading Viewers... Here's How:
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Navarro and TVCC aren't just rivals---they're the only competitors in their division.

Netflix's hit show Cheer is back not just for its second season, but for what appears to be its second scandal. Just after navigating the sexual abuse scandal around one of its subjects, Jerry Harris, the docuseries is making headlines again for misleading its viewers.


Cheer follows the stories of student athletes at Navarro College near Dallas, Texas. Season two introduced the beloved team's new rivals, the cheerleaders from Trinity Valley Community College. This team isn't just Navarro's fiercest competitor at the National Cheerleaders Association's Collegiate National Championship---it turns out, they're Navarro's only competitor.

Navarro coach, Monica Aldama, explained that this is because competing teams are divided into "intermediate" and "advanced" groups based on the level of tricks they do. For example, an intermediate team would not be allowed to perform a human pyramid taller than two people. Navarro and TVCC are the only teams that qualify as "advanced."

Aldama claims,

"We're two of the best teams out there. It doesn't matter that we're in a junior college division. Nobody wants to compete against us. [...] I think the reason they did that is people were trying things that they really had no business doing, trying to do these harder skills to compete, but they didn't have necessarily the talent to do it. Anyways, it opened up these intermediate divisions, so teams started dropping down to these intermediate divisions. Our division kept shrinking and shrinking."

Aldama claims Navarro's ultimate goal isn't even to beat TVCC---it's to get the highest score of any team, period. That way, they can virtually beat every team at the competition, despite not directly competing against them.

Cheer is now streaming on Netflix.

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Ryan Adamczeski

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Ryan is the Digital Director of The Advocate Channel, and a graduate of New York University Tisch's Department of Dramatic Writing, with a focus in television writing and comedy. She is also a member of GALECA, the LGBTQ+ society of entertainment critics.

Ryan is the Digital Director of The Advocate Channel, and a graduate of New York University Tisch's Department of Dramatic Writing, with a focus in television writing and comedy. She is also a member of GALECA, the LGBTQ+ society of entertainment critics.