Beth finds an opened bottle of pills and a note on the kitchen table, and runs to frantically knock on her mom's bedroom door and call for her- while it initially seems as though her mom is committing suicide, it's quickly revealed that her mom invited Beth's estranged, remarried father over for sex. Bait-and-Switch: In the first episode, Beth comes home and her mother seemingly isn't around.Ate His Gun: Sarge Will killed himself by putting his gun in his mouth and pulling the trigger.Armor-Piercing Response: Addy's answer when Beth demands to know what it is about Coach that has caused Addy to choose her over Beth: 'She isn't you.'.Armored Closet Gay: 'Containment' reveals the origins of the tension between Addy and Beth - some time before the events of the series, Addy kissed Beth, but withdrew after realizing that her mother would not approve, and has been freezing Beth out ever since to try and avoid a repeat of the incident.She's even delighted when Brianna starts gunning for Addy's part of the routine. Ambition Is Evil: Defied in 'Code Red', where Coach French openly encourages her girls to compete to replace RiRi when she gets injured.Even when she is with a boy, she tells him she isn't interested in his genitals. Ambiguously Gay: Beth seems way more interested in best friend Addy than in any boy.And Beth rules that clique with an iron fist.

Alpha Bitch: Since SGHS' football team is not very distinguished, the cheerleading squad seems to be the most powerful clique.

Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: In 'Scorched Earth', Tacy and her friends steal beer and get drunk enough that she ends up having to get Bert to bail her out.

Affair? Blame the Bastard: Beth blames her half-sister Tacy for her own broken home, believing that if Tacy hadn't been born, Tacy's mom would have remained a sidepiece rather than becoming Beth's stepmom.

Because in the book Beth and Coach French are both dark-haired, and the picture only shows Beth's head and cheer jacket, not her face, Matt French is fooled into believing it's Coach in the picture. This is a much-simplified version of what happens in the book: Beth herself seduces Sarge Will, as part of her competition with RiRi, and has Tacy take a picture.

Adaptation Distillation: In the first episode, Beth takes a picture of Coach French and Sarge Will obviously naked in his car.

Caught in the middle is Addy Hanlon, Beth's best friend, who sees in Collette her ticket to glory.

This brings her into conflict with former Captain Beth Cassidy, who is used to running the quad her way and resents French's efforts to fix things. In the small town of Sutton Grove, new cheerleading coach Collette French has arrived to help whip the local high school's cheerleading squad into shape. Then it went too far.'ĭare Me is a miniseries airing on USA Network, based on the book of the same name.

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