Before Netflix released CHEER, my only knowledge of cheerleading was from the copious amounts of Bring It On films and my high school’s short-lived cheerleading team. But thanks to Navarro College’s intense cheerleading program in Texas, I’ve learned that cheerleading is absolutely nuts and doesn’t even involve pom-poms anymore.
If you’ve started watching CHEER you know that these beautiful people are fit as hell, and not just the little women who get tossed up in the air like pizza dough, but also the beefy people who have to actually hold up the multi-level human pyramids.
Never again will I think that cheerleading is only Hayden Pannettiere talking down to her nemesis about how her boyfriend got a hotel room for both of them after the school dance (a quality scene in Bring It On: All or Nothing) ? it’s mentally and physically exhausting and is straight up respectable.
