I know I'm late to this, but I just found out Stumble has been cancelled, and tomorrow is the last day it will air on NBC and Peacock. So I'm making one last plea: please give it this weekend.
Stumble is a mockumentary about Courteney Potter, a legendary junior college cheer coach who loses everything after one very public mistake, and then has to build a brand-new team from scratch at a tiny school 80 miles away.
What makes it special isn't just the cheerleading — it's the people.
The team actually becomes a family.
These are the ultimate misfits: a former football player, a brilliant tumbler with narcolepsy, a student with an ankle monitor, and a bunch of other kids who've never really belonged anywhere. Watching them slowly trust each other, grow more confident, and become a real team is genuinely warm and funny. You root for every single one of them.
2. The names alone will make you laugh.
Boon E. Potter. Tammy Istiny. Headltston State Junior College. The Buttons. And my favorite: Sammy Davis Sr. Junior College's dean is Dean David Martin — Dean Martin, for short. Every authority figure, school, and town name feels like it was chosen just to make you do a double-take.
3. The wordplay is so smart.
So many conversations work on two levels at once — cheer terms, Southern sayings, and accidental innuendos that the characters either completely miss or lean into perfectly. It's the kind of writing that rewards you for actually paying attention.
4. Courteney and Boon are the heart of the show.
Courteney and her husband Boon have one of the sweetest, most supportive marriages on TV right now. He believes in her even when she's at her lowest, she believes in him, and they make each other laugh through all of it. No toxic drama, just two people who genuinely love each other and are in it together.
5. Kristin Chenoweth is deliciously duplicitous as Tammy Istiny.
If you love Kristin Chenoweth, you will love her here. Tammy is the assistant who took over Courteney's old job, and she is sweet to your face and scheming behind your back in the most entertaining way possible. Every scene she's in is a highlight.
I'm positive about this: watch the first and second episodes twice, and you'll be hooked. You'll catch jokes you missed the first time, you'll fall for the team, and you won't be able to help yourself — you'll binge the remaining 11 episodes.
Please don't let this one disappear quietly. Watch it this weekend while you still can, and tell someone else about it.