Lashay Anderson, Amelia Brooks and Ashling O’Shea play Clara, Grace and Rumi, three Bannerman School cheerleaders who revive the anonymous justice society once fronted by the girls from Get Even. Set eight months after the original DGM exposed the Head’s killings, the trio find their encrypted forum still pinging with pleas from pupils too scared to speak aloud. Their first case lands when someone calling themselves “the Reaper” leaks humiliating videos of teachers and students, then ups the ante by locking the school during a charity dance-off.
The eight-parter was shot in and around Bolton Town Hall and on the same school set used for series one, keeping the northern grammar atmosphere intact. Episodes run 24-28 minutes, the brisk length allowing the writers to drop a new cliff-hanger every Friday on BBC iPlayer before the box-set landed on Valentine’s Day 2022. Holly Phillips adapted the scripts from Gretchen McNeil’s Don’t Get Mad spin-off Get Dirty but swapped American prom queen politics for British squad rivalries and a single whodunnit arc.
BBC Children’s commissioned the series as a co-production with Netflix and Boat Rocker Studios, banking on the first run’s 1.2 million iPlayer requests inside a month. No second-series green-light followed, leaving the identity of the masked figure revealed in episode eight as the narrative full stop for now.
Production Details
BBC iPlayer / 1 Season / 8 Episodes / 2022 - Present
Created by: Holly Phillips
Showrunner(s): Alison Davis, Chapman Maddox
Producer(s): Dominic MacDonald
Main Cast
Lashay Anderson as Clara Harris
Amelia Brooks as Grace Ellington
Ashling O’Shea as Rumi Joshi
Elliott Wooster as Sam
Ramanique Ahluwalia as Jess
Renee Bailey as Leila
Asha Banks as Brooke
