2008 Woodie Awards
Critic's Corner: No cheers for 'Cheerleader Nation'
Kim Hunigan
Issue date: 4/6/06 Section: Culture
With Flavor Flav's "Flavor of Love" coming to a fantastic end, I knew finding a replacement would be very difficult.
I was flipping through the channels, and there is one sport on television that I can watch, day or night, rain or shine, and that is cheerleading. I watch competitions every time I see them on television, no matter what else is on.
So, to my delight, Lifetime started a show called "Cheerleader Nation." I knew this show would take Flav's place, without the gold teeth and random clocks, of course.
But I was sadly mistaken. It is a show about a cheerleading squad called Dunbar from Lexington, Ky. They are on a mission to win, once again, the national championships for cheerleading. It is a documentary about these high school girls' lives and the challenges they face on the way to the top … and their crazy mothers.
You would think a show claiming this squad is trying to perfect their routine and win the gold would be about just that, but it probably has about seven minutes total of actual competition cheerleading and them preparing for this huge event.
The rest of it is about gossip and what one girl said, and how this girl's boyfriend hates her best friend, etc. It is a show for 10-year-olds, which is strange because it comes on at 10 p.m., when the audience who should be watching this show would probably be asleep.
The girls on this show are spoiled little brats who need to get popped in the mouth one good time. They yell at their mothers, and stay out all night with no explanation except that, "They had stuff to do." Are you serious? Everyone is just so rude to one another on this show. It almost makes me as mad as the show "My Super Sweet 16," which is also full of girls who make you want to throw something at your television.
You may also find yourself slowly pulling your hair out from hearing the word "like." I think they also have contests to see how many times they can say "like" in one sentence. For example, "I like totally didn't like know that like your boyfriend like didn't like me and like stuff." And the whole show is full of this wonderful vocabulary.
I was flipping through the channels, and there is one sport on television that I can watch, day or night, rain or shine, and that is cheerleading. I watch competitions every time I see them on television, no matter what else is on.
So, to my delight, Lifetime started a show called "Cheerleader Nation." I knew this show would take Flav's place, without the gold teeth and random clocks, of course.
But I was sadly mistaken. It is a show about a cheerleading squad called Dunbar from Lexington, Ky. They are on a mission to win, once again, the national championships for cheerleading. It is a documentary about these high school girls' lives and the challenges they face on the way to the top … and their crazy mothers.
You would think a show claiming this squad is trying to perfect their routine and win the gold would be about just that, but it probably has about seven minutes total of actual competition cheerleading and them preparing for this huge event.
The rest of it is about gossip and what one girl said, and how this girl's boyfriend hates her best friend, etc. It is a show for 10-year-olds, which is strange because it comes on at 10 p.m., when the audience who should be watching this show would probably be asleep.
The girls on this show are spoiled little brats who need to get popped in the mouth one good time. They yell at their mothers, and stay out all night with no explanation except that, "They had stuff to do." Are you serious? Everyone is just so rude to one another on this show. It almost makes me as mad as the show "My Super Sweet 16," which is also full of girls who make you want to throw something at your television.
You may also find yourself slowly pulling your hair out from hearing the word "like." I think they also have contests to see how many times they can say "like" in one sentence. For example, "I like totally didn't like know that like your boyfriend like didn't like me and like stuff." And the whole show is full of this wonderful vocabulary.
