Autumn Bailey is the new kid at school. She and her mother left New York after the death of her father. She is befriended by Kara who shares a hatred of cheerleaders. Kara recruits her for the school newspaper to go undercover in the cheerleading squad. In addition to mean girls drama, there is more to uncover.

This is a Lifetime TV drama. It's a rather bland mystery drama with various issues. I don't mind the mean girl drama but it's not the most original. The mystery part has its own issue. It needs to be better written. First, Autumn should be the obvious rat of the newbies. She's the new kid at school and they first noticed her when she's talking to the nemesis Kara. The girls are functional actors. The twist is not the most ingenous but it's acceptable. This is flawed but there are worst on Lifetime.

Autumn is a new student in a new school that...yes, has daddy issues and yes...is somehow talented enough to become a top cheerleader with little to no effort. However, she's also working undercover, as the cheer team needs taken down a peg and the high school newspaper feels like the folk to do the job. It turns out that all of the cheerleaders take laxatives to stay skinny and then there's also a mystery maniac stalking all of them. So while the nod to the slasher made me happy, I really wanted more out of this. But hey - it's a cheerleader movie made in 2019, not something playing a drive-in in 1975. Could Autumn's new boyfriend be a killer? Why are girls so mean to one another? And how does dance translate so well to cheering? I have so many questions, which means that I have to keep watching movies like this to increase my knowledge base.

A shallow soap opera for a targeted teenage high school audience. The kids want to pull a fast one on the absentee mom and similar to the old Disney story line, trouble ensues. Is this a mystery worth solving. Not at all.

I give it a boring 4 out of 10 IMDB rating.