So I tried to stay off Netflix but I failed and finished a series (10 episodes) within a day. I honestly do not know how I did that…
My Synopsis:
Spinning out is a series centered around a girl named Kat and her family, her mom and her sister Serena. They are a family of figure skaters and they excel at it.
It takes us through her training journey starting from after she had a fall at Sectionals that cracked her skull open. We soon find out about her mother’s mental illness – bipolar. We also find out that Kat also is bipolar.
Spinning out is a story that encompasses true love, one-sided love, familial love, friendships and betrayal and also touches on the bias against people of colour.
10/10 Recommend!
Even is a tear jerker at the end of the series!
Actors are great and the figure skating scenes are beautiful.
– Rebecca
Storyline *Spoiler Alert*:
So Kat wants to continue skating but her mother suddenly stops sponsoring her and puts all her time, money and attention on her sister after Kat’s fall. She has a fall out with her mother and moves out of the house into the resort’s staff room because she is friends with the manager of the bar.
She and Marcus (manager of the bar) go out on date after she takes her first step into letting people into her life. She was also supposed to go to London with her boyfriend after she failed a test required for her to coach, but she decided to stay and become Justin’s (the male lead) partner. Justin had tried to get her to agree but she said no, and he got himself another partner. But his partner was a “handful” and Kat got Justin’s mother (Mandy) on her side to help her convince Justin’s father to let her be Justin’s partner.
After standing Marcus up a few times, he gets tired of waiting. Some where along the way, Justin and Kat fall in love and they skate well. Marcus also gives up his spot in medical school to do what he loves – Skiing.
There are friendship fights in between with Kat and Jenn (her best friend), random mother maniac episodes, and other scenes in between but I am focusing on Kat’s main events from my memory.
Kat then suddenly feels the pressure to skate well. She stops taking her bipolar medicine and this builds up fast. She has so much energy that she puts into up-ing the difficulty of her sectionals routine. After sectionals she starts to act not herself, there is a scene where she is so hyper and finally it all bursts when she throws a huge party and gets into a fight. It ends up with her in the bath tub repeating the same words over and over, Justin being let out of jail and Marcus stuck in jail over the weekend.
She manages to get herself together and her mom tried to hide her illness from the others. But Dasha’s announcement of her not being Kat’s coach anymore was what caused Kat to tell the truth. She came out to everyone involved and came clean about her illness.
The last episode she is at Nationals. She finally knows she loves Justin and they reconcile. Her sister is a wreck because she thought a doctor who slept with her loved her. Her best friend doesn’t believe that he slept with her and is just lying. Her mother had to come clean to Mitch (Serena’s coach and her boyfriend) that she cheated on her.
Basically anything that could go wrong went wrong. It ends of with her mother and sister asking her to skate. Her sister says that they need it, “something good”.
Reflections:
It really showed me family. I mean they are a messy family but they stuck through it. They all flared at each other, but at the end of the day they had their backs.
I was also crying balls during the last few episodes because Kat had to come clean. And also relationships were patched up. It goes to show the truth does go a long way. And, so does sincerity.
I also realised that Netflix cancelled the series after just one season. I would have loved another season. But it ending here gives it an open ending. Not sure how they would patch that up. But, I would like to think that Kat and Justin crushed their routine and won first place! Serena and Carol (Kat’s mom) may not get their happy ending just yet. But, I can imagine an epilogue where they are doing fine, with Serena being on the ice and Carol watching her from the sidelines.
They may not be in relationships in my fantasy ending. But who needs guys, am I right? In the end they have each other and they are family.
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