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  • 2010
  • TV-14
  • The CW
  • 2010
  • TV-14
  • The CW
Hellcats

Summary Hellcats is a show about sacrifice and competitive sports. When Marti Perkins (Aly Michalka) loses her scholarship to Lancer University in Memphis, Tennessee her dreams of college and escaping her alcoholic mother (Gail O'Grady) for a better life as a lawyer could be over before they start. Luckily, Lancer's legendary competitive cheer s...

Created By: Kevin Murphy

  • 2010
  • TV-14
  • The CW
  • 2010
  • TV-14
  • The CW

Hellcats

Season 1 Premiere: Sep 8, 2010
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 22 Critic Reviews
51
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 35 User Ratings
7.1
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Summary Hellcats is a show about sacrifice and competitive sports. When Marti Perkins (Aly Michalka) loses her scholarship to Lancer University in Memphis, Tennessee her dreams of college and escaping her alcoholic mother (Gail O'Grady) for a better life as a lawyer could be over before they start. Luckily, Lancer's legendary competitive cheer s...

Created By: Kevin Murphy

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 22 Critic Reviews
51
32% Positive
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41% Mixed
9 Reviews
27% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 22 Critic Reviews
51
32% Positive
7 Reviews
41% Mixed
9 Reviews
27% Negative
6 Reviews

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80
Despite this silly and derivative setup, the pilot is actually a lot of fun. The performances are uniformly good and there are moments of promising depth to balance all the peppy hair-swinging, abs-flexing dance numbers.
By Mary McNamara FULL REVIEW
70
For all its formulaic predictability, though, this show has an acerbic self-awareness that may defuse the cynicism you may bring to it.
By Maureen Ryan FULL REVIEW
60
It takes us to the South and to a class-conscious frame of mind and then introduces a web of complicated relationships that the eye recognizes as cross-racial but the dialogue does not. For now, it seems that this is a tale of collegiate self-discovery and hand-spring liberation that just happens to be set in the post-racial America I keep hearing about it.
By Troy Patterson FULL REVIEW
60
Played partly tongue in cheek, the show's premiere isn't quite unabashedly trashy enough to completely qualify as a guilty pleasure, but one can see it developing into that.
By Brian Lowry FULL REVIEW
40
With all due respect to cheerleaders, and, um, hellcats, I'm a dog person myself. So when I say I didn't actually hate Hellcats, it means something. If nothing else, I'm in awe of the athleticism.
By Ellen Gray FULL REVIEW
30
Mostly I winced: at the irritatingly arch dialogue; at the hoochielicious every-other-scene dance routines; at Michalka's acting range, which seems to have just two settings--smug and self-righteous.
By Glenn Garvin FULL REVIEW
10
Hellcats is basically a soft-porn music video for teenagers.
By Alessandra Stanley FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 35 User Ratings
7.1
63% Positive
22 Ratings
26% Mixed
9 Ratings
11% Negative
4 Ratings

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Generally Favorable Based on 35 User Ratings
7.1
63% Positive
22 Ratings
26% Mixed
9 Ratings
11% Negative
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Production Company:
  • Bonanza Productions
  • Tom Welling Productions
  • Warner Bros. Television
  • CBS Television Studios
Initial Release Date: Sep 8, 2010
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-14
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Awards

People's Choice Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
• 1 Nomination
TV Guide Awards
• 1 Nomination

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