We don’t do this.” - where heartbreak and other forms of injury seem like the inevitable cost for all. It’s a ruthless world - at her first practice, Colette grabs hold of one of the girls’ ever-so-slightly doughy midsections and says, coldly, “Fix this. Colette has been recruited by Beth’s estranged father Bert (Paul Fitzgerald) to turn the squad into champs, and she’ll upset anyone in her path - Beth most of all - to achieve that goal. Local hellion Beth (Marlo Kelly) is entrenched as the squad’s “top girl,” with backing from loyal (and mostly kinder) best friend Addy (Herizen Guardiola). We’re in a small Midwestern town where the cheerleaders have long been more successful than the football players they support. That feeling is palpable throughout Dare Me. Cain had been a teenage girl, he’d have written this.” More than once, I’ve read an Abbott book and thought, “If James M. Her other recent books include You Will Know Me, about teen gymnasts training for Olympic glory, and Give Me Your Hand, about scientists exploring cures for an extreme form of PMS both settings inevitably lead to bloodshed, as happens in Dare Me. Abbott’s specialty has long been recreating the grimy, hopeless, and traditionally male experience of noir in unapologetically female contexts. The scene is less interested in revealing something about the enigmatic Colette than it is in winking at the influences of Megan Abbott, who adapted her own novel for television. Midway through Dare Me, a new USA drama set in the world of high school cheerleading, we see local cheer coach Colette French (Willa Fitzgerald) watching the classic Forties film noir Double Indemnity, based on the novel by James M.

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