Monica Aldama Reveals How ‘Cheer’ Season 2 Handles Canceled Competitions Amid COVID-19
usmagazine.comNot quite how she imagined it would go. Monica Aldama returned for season 2 of Cheer only for production to get shut down by the coronavirus pandemic.“It’s nine episodes, so I do know it’s longer,” the Full Out author, 49, exclusively told Us Weekly of the upcoming season, which premieres on Netflix Wednesday, January 12. “It covers, I think, the first part up to where we get our season canceled and then picks back up with now — we’re coming back in a COVID year, which was so hard with all the COVID rules and stuff.”She added: “It should be an exciting season 2.
Definitely, you’ll get to see, obviously, your favorites from season 1, and you will definitely fall in love with some new people too.”The coach and her Navarro College Bulldogs Cheer Team from Texas won over fans who binged season 1 of the Netflix series in January 2020.
She reflected on the show’s popularity and why a second season once seemed like a long shot.“I knew that was a possibility, but I also thought when it came out that they might not do another season just because it was so good.
How do you top it?” she told Us. “Everything happened so fast, and I think they were caught off guard too. We were all just scrambling because it just blew up so fast.
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