Dare Me

Name: Dare Me
Genre: Drama, Sports
Released: December 29, 2019
Rating: 73

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USA | USA Network HDTV (East) | USA Network HDTV | Release Date: December 29, 2019

Summary: The friendship between Addy Hanlon and Beth Cassidy (Herizen Guardiola and Marlo Kelly) is tested with the arrival of new cheerleading coach Colette French (Willa Fitzgerald) in the drama based on Megan Abbott’s novel of the same name.

Genre(s): Drama, Sports

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S1:E10. Shock & Awe
Air Date: March 8, 2020
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S1:E9. Fog Of War
Air Date: March 1, 2020
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S1:E8. Containment
Air Date: February 23, 2020

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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

Dec 27, 2019

Season 1 Review: When it comes to its suspense, Dare Me exercises immense control. It withholds just long enough to simmer the tension and then lunges forth. Read full review

IndieWire Steve Greene

Jan 2, 2020

Season 1 Review: When the main source of drama is unclear intentions or mixed signals, “Dare Me” wears its hazy, dreamlike exterior well. As the season progresses and those nightmares become a little more literal, the cuts between hallucinations and reality become slightly less effective. But when that disorienting, who-to-believe framework gets reflected from multiple angles, “Dare Me” truly delivers. Read full review

Jen Chaney

Jan 3, 2020

Season 1 Review: A smart and soapy noir work about the tensions between teenage girls, as well as an adult coach who still behaves like a teenage girl. Read full review

Alan Sepinwall

Dec 27, 2019

Season 1 Review: What there is of a plot ... unfolds very, very slowly, suggesting the show would have done better with either a shorter season or as a miniseries. ... Still, great atmosphere and lived-in performances (especially from Kelly and Guardiola) carry this show a hell of a way farther down the field than a lot of recent dramatic slogs with similarly unbalanced story-to-episode ratios. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Dec 29, 2019

Season 1 Review: Dare Me features a tantalizing blend of guilty-pleasure trashiness, smart genre deconstruction and unfiltered, darkly comic adrenaline. ... Think Wild Things, only less exploitative. Or just think a classed-up neo-noir, veering into Hitchcock. Read full review

Mike Hale

Dec 27, 2019

Season 1 Review: Having foreshadowed the mystery to come, the show spends much of the season presenting us with suspects for a crime that hasn’t happened yet, and that isn’t always an exciting process ... The show generally succeeds, though, in approximating the dreamlike quality of the book. Read full review

Amy Amatangelo

Dec 28, 2019

Season 1 Review: Dare Me’s take on today’s current adolescents doesn’t at all jibe with the teenagers I know. Read full review

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JennetP

Jan 21, 2020

Having not read the book, I can't evaluate the series' fidelity to it. On its own, however, "Dare Me" is definitely not for people who like a little naturalism with their melodrama. The series take place in a parallel universe where no adult notices when a new cheerleading coach smokes inHaving not read the book, I can't evaluate the series' fidelity to it. On its own, however, "Dare Me" is definitely not for people who like a little naturalism with their melodrama. The series take place in a parallel universe where no adult notices when a new cheerleading coach smokes in her office or throws daily alcohol-soaked house parties for her squad. This adult oblivion allows the coach to openly enjoy the high-school humpery she missed as a teenager and allows the teenagers to run similarly wild, which makes the coach and the cheerleaders peers in one sense, even though the squad remains an absolute monarchy with coach as queen. This tension between the coach's age-inappropriate behavior and her absolute rule sets up disaster, as does the seething resentment of the queen she deposed, squad captain and top girl Beth.

I have to pause and say I quite like Marlo Kelly as Beth, a more subtle sociopath than most TV mean girls.

Anyway, having seen 4 episodes, I'm still watching but just barely. I'm curious to see how much of this weird parallel universe turns out to be imaginary, and I'm also enjoying Beth's deviousness, though it's a guilty pleasure because she's a bully, and we're not supposed to side with bullies any more, even when they're the most interesting people onscreen. Are mild curiosity and Beth enough to get me through the series? Depends what else clamors for my attention over the next month or so.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

73

Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: December 29, 2019
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  S1:E10. Shock & Awe
  Air Date: March 8, 2020
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  S1:E9. Fog Of War
  Air Date: March 1, 2020
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  S1:E8. Containment
  Air Date: February 23, 2020
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  S1:E7. Scorched Earth
  Air Date: February 16, 2020
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  S1:E6. Parallel Trenches
  Air Date: January 26, 2020
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  S1:E6. Code Red
  Air Date: February 9, 2020
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  S1:E5. Rapprochement
  Air Date: January 19, 2020
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  S1:E5. Parallel Trenches
  Air Date: January 26, 2020
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  S1:E4. Coup D'état
  Air Date: December 29, 2019
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  S1:E4. Surrender At Discretion
  Air Date: January 12, 2020
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  S1:E4. Rapprochement
  Air Date: January 19, 2020
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  S1:E3. Season 1 First Look
  Air Date: December 26, 2019
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  S1:E3. Surrender At Discretion
  Air Date: January 12, 2020
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  S1:E3. Mutually Assured Destruction
  Air Date: January 5, 2020
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  S1:E2. Mututally Assured Destruction
  Air Date: January 5, 2020
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  S1:E2. Mutually Assured Destruction
  Air Date: January 5, 2020
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  S1:E1. First Look
  Air Date: December 8, 2019
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  S1:E1. Coup D'état
  Air Date: December 29, 2019