Cheer: How The Netflix Show Compares To 2016 Series Cheer Squad
When Cheer released on Netflix in January 2020, the streaming platform exposed the world to competitive cheerleading with their breakout hit, and it's time to explain how the series compares with a similar predecessor, Cheer Squad. Cheer follows the Navarro College Bulldogs cheer squad as they prepare for the annual National Cheerleading Championship (NCA) in Daytona Beach, Florida. However, this was not the first reality series to follow a competitive cheer team on its journey to a championship. Four years earlier, ABC Spark and Freeform debuted Cheer Squad, which followed the Canadian elite team, the Great White Sharks, as they prepared to compete at the World Cheerleading Championship.
Cheer Squad was a lot like Cheer is today, in that the entire build-up of the season culminated in a performance at a championship competition where the squad held previous titles. In the show's solo season, the Great White Sharks were coming off back-to-back gold medals from the 2014 and 2015 World Championships. They are hoping for a «threepeat,» much like the Bulldogs were working towards a repeat of their 2018 NCA win in Cheer season one.
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The squad featured on the series was under the direction of coach Ali Moffatt, who, like Navarro cheer coach Monica Aldama, is a tough but loving mother figure. Just like Monica, Ali sometimes has to make difficult decisions in order to do what's best for her team, so that her squad has the best chance at another championship title. The Great White cheerleaders spend so much time practicing and performing together that they consider each other family, just like the Bulldogs do.
One of the main things that made Cheer
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