Hellcats Finale Review: Farewell Hellcats, It Was Nice Knowing You!
It’s that time of year again; when season finales air and networks announce their new fall schedules. Sadly for Hellcats fans, today just wasn’t our day.
The freshman series aired their first and only finale, as well as dropping the bomb that the Tom Welling-produced show will not return next year.
As disappointing as this news is, we still have a new episode to discuss. So wipe your tears and let’s get to it.
With hopes of a second season, Hellcats didn’t get the proper ending viewers hoped for. Somethings were left in the air and some people were seriously missed.
It was nice to finally have some cheerleading back on a cheerleading based show. Once again, the cast displayed amazing talent with their Nationals routine.
It would have been benefitting to see more of this throughout the season. The tumbling was insane, the stunts were flawless, and it even got Vanessa back on the mat. Maybe having more scenes like this could have helped the show.
Let’s please take a second to recognize the ridiculousness of Nasty Kathy locking Lewis in the hotel bathroom. Most CW shows do some unrealistic things, but this was just absurd. You are in college! Locking someone in a room is the most immature and stupid thing ever. I couldn’t help but laugh and wonder if that was actually happening.
Savannah and her family have really come full circle since the first episode. She definitely made the right choice in staying with her sister. Family first. I was pumped for her stepping down to let Alice become captain. She needs it more than Savannah does, and honestly, I think she is the better person for the position. There was a pretty big hole in the story. No way that Savanna’s father is sending postcards or letters when he is on the run. And even if he was, why send them to Charlotte instead of Savannah? Wasn’t she supposed to be the strong one?
A highlight of "I'm Sick Y’all” was the scenes between real life sisters Aly and AJ Michalka. The girls definitely delivered the best acting of the cast. It’s a shame that there won’t be any new episodes, because the father storyline finally took an interesting turn.
The problem with not knowing you are about to get canceled is leaving the finale open ended. Marti’s father being alive, Vanessa getting fired, Alice becoming captain. These are all things that would have played out interestingly next year. Even with these arcs wide open, there were some things I took issue with. Such as....where was Julian and Red?? The two couples with actual chemistry had no screen time together, in fact Julian & Red had no screen time at all. Even if you didn’t know this was the ending, the writers should have taken the time to include at least one scene of Julian and Marti. They had become the spotlight of the series over the past few episodes. What about Red? There definitely would have been some verbal smackdown between him and Emily when he found out about Vanessa’s firing. At least we can enjoy the idea that all of the couples, Dan/Savannah and Alice/Lewis included, were still going strong.
Although I thoroughly enjoy the cheerleading aspect, the couples should have made it into the finale. Much more so than Lewis being locked in a bathroom or the pre-Nationals dinner.
On a side note. The other squads joining the Hellcats on stage was an instant reminder of the Season 3 cheerleading classic episode of One Tree Hill, wasn’t it?
All in all, the finale was solid. Sure it lacked some things, but it had set the stage for a sophomore season that I firmly believe would have found it’s stride. I look forward to seeing Aly Michalka, Robbie Jones, Ashley Tisdale, Matt Barr, and most definitely Heather Hemmens in new projects. Maybe even one of the new CW shows!
What do you think, TV Fanatics? Was the CW wrong in canceling Hellcats? Will you miss the squad or agree that it just wasn’t working? Sound off and let us know what you thought of the season series finale of Hellcats.
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Marti: If you needed me, I would drop everything. I know we don't know each other very well but you're my sister and that means something to me.
May 24th, 2012 6:34 AM
I know its pretty far from Hellcats finishing, but this was a pretty amazing show. Sure it was about Cheer leading, but the morals behind the show, the relationships in the show, nearly everything in that show made a mark on someone watching it. I don't know about the rest of you who watched it, but i felt a real connection with the show and I want to see a second season of Hellcats. Who knows? Maybe the ratings will be much more higher because of the lack of a 'final' finale. So much was left to the imagination that people WANT to see what happens, what WILL happen.....
I think that Hellcats should be brought back, if not now atleast at one point. I sure do miss the show and would give anything to see it come back to life.
Come on CW, BRING HELLCATS BACK!!!
May 19th, 2012 11:05 AM
Bring d hellcats back please
May 16th, 2012 12:53 AM
BRING BACK HELLCATS!!!!!!!!!!!! U CANT CALL IT A SEASOON FINALLIE IF THERE ISN'T GOING TO BE A SECOND SEASON THATS BULLSHIT!!! ALSO UR RATINGS CAN'T BE THAT LOW IF SO MANY PEOPLE STILL WANT TO WATCH THE SHOW AND TRY PUTING IT ON AT A REASONABLE TIME THE PEOPLE THAT WATCH IT HAVE SCHOOL THE NEXT MORNING!!! WE WANT HELLCATS!! WE WANT HELLCATS!! WE WNT HELLCATS!!!!!!!!!!!
April 27th, 2012 4:21 PM
Live in Barbados and both my kids loved this show - they got me hooked - bring it back!!!
April 21st, 2012 2:15 AM
I LOVEEE THIS SHOWW>.... BRING IT BACKK!!! I SWEAR everyone will watch it.. this show was so amazing, how could they just drop it. It doesnt make sense. but i miss it. I love cheerleading shows. and this is the only one. MOVIES DONT COUNT. now i really want to know what happens. PLEASE coomee back!
April 14th, 2012 7:53 AM
Seriously, when there is a decent show on the air they always manage to screw up. I know its about mobey but ehat if we as consumers never tried abythibh more than once. A lot of imunemployed pissed off ppl including you. Gossip Girl has had her run cant atomach to wat h anymore and reality Tv is so fake and seriously my own reality is a novel so others os a pet project.
This show hit very broad age group and i think a lot male of viewers too. I think canx this show CW is missing out on a great demographic had they a littke more patience. Good thing Michael Jordan didnt quit when ppl said too. Also it really takes a couple seasons to get out there. Shame on you and Gossip Girl again really?
Like the show Las Vegas. They abandoned the show with SOo many problems and then wonder why ppl get angry or quit their network. At least have enough decency to us as consumer and to the actors to properly close a show.
April 12th, 2012 10:28 AM
I really love Hellcats and I know I sound really sad but I really did get into it, through those three days I cheered, laughed, cried, shouted at my TV and smiled until my jaw hurt. I cant believe that there isn’t going to be a season two, I really how that CW change there mind before all the cast look to old to play there parts.
GO HELLCATS
April 12th, 2012 10:27 AM
Who else is there? Wanda, omg how could I forget Wanda she is so funny I love how she is the mother of the Hellcats and the fact that at the beginning of the Season she was the drink addicted, incapable mother who was obsessed with ribs but she turned into this caring, loving and loveable mum but at the same time she is fun and has sorted her life out. I love Vanessa and Red, but admittedly Vanessa pisses me off at times but I love her and red’s story. And I also fell in love with bad boy Jake, even though he wasn’t in it long, he always seemed to really care about Alice which I loved and when he cried when Alice talked him into confessing and when she went to visit him in prison he seemed so cute and venerable.
April 12th, 2012 10:27 AM
Marti and Dan didn’t really happen because it kind of made me hate Marti a little because Savannah and Dan were so good together. I’m also glad that Marti and Lewis didn’t work because I like Lewis and Alice together because Alice is less of a bitch when she is with him, for example when they entered the competition to win the car and because she knew it was for his dad she went through pain to help him. I love Lewis he is so cute but he is like tough guy cute. Dan is wow I love him to, maybe its because he has an Irish family I’m not sure, but when ever he is on my screen I smile, I just love his character. Marti is amazing and she is so talented and I really what her and Julian to work out but I think there maybe something a little fishy with him.
April 12th, 2012 10:25 AM
No, OMG I cant believe it. I have had a week off school and have spent three solid days watching all of Hellcats season 1 on demand. I have fell in love with the show and then I came on the internet to find out about season 2 and when it starts only to be knocked down from my excitement to find that Hellcats has been cancelled. I mean WHAT how can they cancel Hellcats it amazing. When my family have been out this week, I have snuggled under my blanket on my sofa with pop and snacks for a day of Hellcats but to my disappointment I finished them kind of quick.
I love all the characters, I love the fact that Ashley Tisdale plays a completely different character in hellcats than she does in high school musical. I fell in love with Ashley’s character Savannah Monroe in the first episode when her and Marti had a argument in the office. I love Savannah and Dan together I think they are the cutest couple ever because they are so different the balance each other out. I am really glad that