Netflix "Cheer!" is what "Clash of the Corps" Should Have Been
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Many of us (not too fondly) remember the one-season, short-lived series on "Fuse TV" called "Clash of the Corps"
Clash of the Corps followed the 2016 Blue Devils & 2016 Cadets on their tour to the DCI World Championships
The series felt very flat to most of us - did a terrible job opening up our activity to a broader audience by making the viewers care about the participants or understand WHAT drum corps was about
Instead we got corny slow-motion video set to bizza
"Cheer" ties back into Drum Corps and band. I get a newsletter called "BIG," by Matt Stoller, about the economics and politics of monopolies. Today's newsletter was about Varsity Brands, the monopoly behind cheerleading competitions. (They're also owned by Bain Capital, BTW.) In one of the episodes of the show, "cheerleaders complain that they can't watch cheerleading on TV anymore, because Varsity streams its competitions over its for-pay app Varsity TV, moving ESPN out of the picture."
