Although the show might at first seem like another prime-time teen drama, it’s about more than warring cheerleaders with cheeky one-liners and absentee parents. Though to be clear, there are plenty of those to go around too. Dare Me is also about tons of small town drama within and outside of the squad and involving not only the girls themselves, but also the coach, her crumbling marriage, and the lives of the other adults in town.
There’s also a murder mystery at the heart of it all that has only come out in small peaks so far this season. Thanks to a couple of shots of a blood-drenched carpet and a pair of regulation white cheer sneakers nearby that too many people seem to share, the victim and culprit are still very much a mystery.