The Hollywood Reporter confirms that here will not be a second season of Dare Me.

The series delved into the cutthroat world of competitive high school cheerleading. It followed the fraught relationship between two best friends after a new coach arrived to bring their team to prominence. While the girls’ friendship is put to the test, their young lives are changed forever when a shocking crime rocks their quiet suburban world.

Dare Me was based on the novel of the same name by Megan Abbott, who also served as writer and executive producer on the series. 

Dare Me starred Willa Fitzgerald, Herizen Guardiola, Marlo Kelly, Rob Heaps, and Paul Fitzgerald. 

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The creative team behind the adaptation, author Megan Abbott and Gina Fattore talked to Variety about the series, which debuted on USA this week. 

The story explores the themes of friendship, sexuality, competition, murder, and power through the world of high school cheerleading.

Fattore told Variety: “I have told coming-of-age stories on so many shows; it’s really my favorite kind of show. I looked at the book in that way and saw instantly the chance to make the first season really a classic coming-of-age story about a relationship with an older person that changes your life. Sometimes that’s a romantic relationship, but sometimes it’s not, and in this case it’s a mentor relationship. That territory felt perfectly applicable to TV.”

But a lot has changed, especially in terms of young people talk about sexuality. 

“It was a much more binary world in 2012, and now one of the most exciting things about this moment is all of those binaries that were false to begin with are being dismantled. That was something that we really wanted to explore,” Fattore said.

“It is great to be able to not have to put on a label on it — because it allows for the subtlety and the complexity and for things to go places,” Abbott added.

Dare Me premiered December 29 on USA.

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The Hollywood Reporter confirms that here will not be a second season of Dare Me.

The series delved into the cutthroat world of competitive high school cheerleading. It followed the fraught relationship between two best friends after a new coach arrived to bring their team to prominence. While the girls’ friendship is put to the test, their young lives are changed forever when a shocking crime rocks their quiet suburban world.

Dare Me was based on the novel of the same name by Megan Abbott, who also served as writer and executive producer on the series. 

Dare Me starred Willa Fitzgerald, Herizen Guardiola, Marlo Kelly, Rob Heaps, and Paul Fitzgerald. 

The post USA Network Cancels “Dare Me” appeared first on Entertainment For Us.

The creative team behind the adaptation, author Megan Abbott and Gina Fattore talked to Variety about the series, which debuted on USA this week. 

The story explores the themes of friendship, sexuality, competition, murder, and power through the world of high school cheerleading.

Fattore told Variety: “I have told coming-of-age stories on so many shows; it’s really my favorite kind of show. I looked at the book in that way and saw instantly the chance to make the first season really a classic coming-of-age story about a relationship with an older person that changes your life. Sometimes that’s a romantic relationship, but sometimes it’s not, and in this case it’s a mentor relationship. That territory felt perfectly applicable to TV.”

But a lot has changed, especially in terms of young people talk about sexuality. 

“It was a much more binary world in 2012, and now one of the most exciting things about this moment is all of those binaries that were false to begin with are being dismantled. That was something that we really wanted to explore,” Fattore said.

“It is great to be able to not have to put on a label on it — because it allows for the subtlety and the complexity and for things to go places,” Abbott added.

Dare Me premiered December 29 on USA.

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