When your job entails watching several new shows a week, overlapping themes are inevitable. Still, similarities between shows are rarely as stark as those between the first seasons of Netflix’s “Sp…
), whose own talent blazed too brightly for anyone to ignore. Her younger daughter Serena is a powerful skater who lacks Kat’s artistic touch, a detail that no one will let her forget. Despite their constantly roiling feelings, the three of them are bonded against a world that looks down on them for lacking the money and resources so many others in their elite Idaho ski town do.
But as the season plods towards its uneven finale, “Spinning Out” instead does exactly what its title promises instead of sticking the landing. Each episode runs almost a full hour long, but the stories rarely fill that space as they should. The parallel threads of Carol and Kat’s mental illness quickly collapses into flat clichés. The show’s overtures toward fleshing out minor characters like Kat’s best friend Jenn and coach Dasha wither on the vine under the weight of clunky writing.
As the season unfolds, “Dare Me” portrays the hurt driving so many bored teen girls, and the dangers of those who would exploit them for fun and profit, with almost painful clarity. Unlike “Spinning Out,” “Dare Me” will air weekly on, which is honestly a shame. I’m not often in the business of advocating series dropping all at once, a tactic that’s stretched too many streaming seasons into unbearable drags.
Both shows prove how much material lies in delving into the worlds of teen girls and the competitions that drive them. Both are, to their credit, clearly concerned with not condescending to their teen demographic in the way so many other shows would.
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