Sure, technically it got a season plus 9 episodes, but it was supposed to be more seasons, and then 13 episodes, then down to 9, so they couldnât even do the sort of finish they were planning with the 13 episodes. So I count it. These days it would probably have been a couple of 10 odd episode seasons, as most of season 1 was building up the premise, expanding it and starting to build up the larger lore, and then got cancelled, just as it was starting to get in the swing of it.
Thankfully one of the writers did post online what the overarching mystery plot was. It was about life and death being pre-destined, and the side of âgoodâ who had this system in place, and ârebelâ spirits/angels/whatever trying to interrupt this system, as they thought people deserved more free will/no strict life and dead etc and were doing their thing with the main character, and had done with previous people, to disrupt the system. And the angels/spirits/whatever who were trying to keep the system in place and working back against them. And there was stuff being introduced about the main characters family that they werenât aware of. They never said how the show would exactly plan out, and what the end goal was, if there was one, about how it would end, whether one side would âwinâ, or if the ârebelsâ would win part way through and then see how that played out. But it was a fun premise and look at the idea of âGod/Maker/Higher Beings have a plan for everyone and they die when they should, and there is such a thing as a soul/spirit that moves on toâŚ.something after deathâ and whether that Plan is a good thing for humans (like a lot of religious people say, you know âoh, that child died of cancer because it was in Gods Plan for usâ).
Hellcats. About a pre-law woman whose mother screws up her student finance paperwork so finds herself short of money and finds out that being a college cheerleader comes with a full scholarship. Thanks to a background as a gymnast, and uh, funky dancing, sheâs able to get on the team and itâs about her trying to fit in and work out the life of a cheerleader and screwed up family and school. There was an interesting episode about one of the main cheerleaders who almost gets kicked out of school for plagiarism, and it turns out it was for a biology class about evolution, and the girl had been raised in a very strict, very devout Christian (think WASP though, not Southern type, hence why she was allowed to be a cheerleader), and had originally gone to a Christian College, and had a crisis of faith or something, so transferred to a secular college, had a falling out with family over it, and so the fallout of such a upbringing. Maybe not brilliantly done, and definitely came down on her getting another student to write the essay as wrong, but gave it as somewhat sympathetic slant about her upbringing and how itâs affected her as a young adult, suddenly out of the control of her parents and the strict religious schooling, and her struggles with missing her family, because she still loved them and didnât want to fall out with them, while still believing, just wanting to grow as a person and expanding her horizons and mind with new viewpoints. Food for thought.