I’m Not Cheering for Hellcats

The other new show to the CW is Hellcats. The show is about a brooding young woman, Marti (Alyson Michalka) trying to get her college degree so she can get out of town (and get away from her mother) and go to law school. But at the beginning of the semester, she loses her scholarship due to budget cuts. She picks on Savannah (Ashley Tisdale), the cheerleader captain before finding out that there is a cheerleading scholarship.

I think that the show moved too fast in its first two episodes, so I'm not sure where they have to go besides character development. And we have already learned a lot about the two main characters already, their family problems and school problems. In the first episode the main character had already made the squad, and was teaching them to cheer like the movie Bring It On.

They were also competing in their first competition in the second episode. And much like the Glee premise, they must win nationals or they will have their funding cut. There's also a jealous teammate, because Marti (takes her spot after an injury, introduces a new way to cheer and her ex-boyfriend also seems to have a crush on her. There's a mother that leans too much on her daughter, and it seems as if the parental roles have been reversed, which I believe some people may be able to relate.

I wonder if the future of the show has been considered. No one has mentioned their class status (freshman, sophomore, etc.), but it has been mentioned they are 21, and often hang in a college bar and have drinks. When I turned 21 I was going into my senior year.

I only watched the first two episodes because nothing else was on, and CW was smart enough to start their season early. I'm not even sure if this show is worth space in my DVR. But maybe I'm too old for the target demographic.