One of my favourite documentary series from last year is back! We have a second season of America’s Sweethearts, Netflix’s documentary about the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. I wrote a whole post about last year’s series – and I think you really need to watch that one to get the most out of season two, and I say that as someone who is only two episodes into the new season. So do go and read my post from last year and then go and watch it. As I said last year so many people I know watched it who aren’t into sport but also people who are really into sport but not into dance – the first series was just a really good documentary. I’m not sure how series two can live up to that, but I’m excited to see it try! Oh and in case you’re wondering – the original subreddit still hasn’t come to terms with the fact the change to the series compared to the CMT one…
Have a great Sunday.
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Well done, Verity. Like many non-Americans, I would have given cheerleading, and cheerleaders little attention or respect, based on naive ideas of pom-pom waving and “rah rah rah, cis boom bah” cheers, as in corny American films.
But then a niece of mine became a cheerleader in Australia, where I live, and she demonstrated quite convincingly the extreme balletic and gymnastic athleticism of modern cheerleading.
I am, as you seem to be, convinced that cheerleading deserves to be taken as seriously as, for example, Olympic-level gymnastics and synchronised swimming, and varieties of ice-skating, and chorus-line dancing, and corps de ballet routines.
(I might draw the line at boot-scooting, line-dancing, as a gymnastic art form. But good traditional ballroom dancing is another worthy visual spectacle …)