‘Finding Her Edge’ - Netflix’s YA Ice-Skating Drama

[Sylvia]

Jan. 6, 2025 in the Skating Books thread in GSD:

Well, it looks like classic novel retellings + skating dramas are definitely becoming a thing. This one's based on Jane Austen's Persuasion.

Netflix, Canada’s Family Channel are Finding Her Edge in teen figure skating drama adaptation

Family Channel in Canada has commissioned a live-action teen drama adapted from Jennifer Iacopelli’s novel Finding Her Edge, with Netflix taking the rights to the rest of the world.

www.c21media.net

In a TV Alerts thread:

There’s also going to be a fictional series about an ice dancer called Finding Her Edge.
[Trailer:] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppZ3qgtFOME

Today (January 22, 2026) - Finding Her Edge’ Everything You Need to Know About Netflix’s New YA Ice-Skating Drama:

'Finding Her Edge' Everything You Need to Know About Netflix's New YA Ice-Skating Drama

Netflix has just released its new teen ice-skating series, based on Jennifer Iacopelli's book. Headlined by Madelyn Keys and Cale Ambrozic, the series

www.whats-on-netflix.com

Comments from those who've watched/plan to watch?

ETA:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2014387854600818773

ETA 2 - Mariposa School of Skating (Barrie, Ontario) posted this earlier today:

Mariposa School of Skating on Instagram: "We’re excited to share that Mariposa skaters were featured in the brand-new Netflix series Finding Her Edge. Several of our athletes had the incredible opportunity to work behind the scenes as body doubles,

152 likes, 1 comments - skatemariposa on January 22, 2026: "We’re excited to share that Mariposa skaters were featured in the brand-new Netflix series Finding Her Edge. Several of our athletes had the incredible opportunity to work behind the scenes as body doubles, and you’ll also spot...

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[Miezekatze]

I saw the first episode, well it’s a Young Adult romance, so

I didn’t find it that bad, it’s rather entertaining fluff and the skating stuff is not THAT unrealistic. I think it’s pretty entertaining to watch leading up to the Olympics, but like similar shows Netflix has done before I also can’t imagine it does well enough to get a 2nd season.

What is typical for that kind of show is that the skating is always on some adult competition level, so you see people doing mediocre spins with slow medicre basics and double jumps, but of course with that content they are Olympic champions…I wonder if it’s impossible to hire some skating body doubles that at least can do triples (like recent ex-competitive skaters?) or whether they can do that but the filming makes it impossible to make the skating look a bit more realistic competitive? (yeah and the "fall leading to the dramatic injury scene" in episode 1 was pretty ridiculous)

What I found amusing about episode one is that you see the described level of skating, but then that Johnny Weir-esque single skater character brags to a media person about doing a quad axel

Two things that could be better, I don’t really find the actress of the main character to be particularily charismatic (maybe she’ll grow on me) and the „bad boy“ ice dancer actually seems pretty nice, so I’m not really sure what is supposed to make him the „bad boy“.

 

[cygnus]

A close friend was the steadycam operator for the show. He says it was a great cast and crew to work with, one of his best. And he has worked on a LOT of movies and series. ( Next up is Star Trek Academy). He knows nothing about skating, though, and couldn't name any of the body double skaters.

 

[Sylvia]

Nadiia Bashynska just posted this (includes 14 photos from the set):

Nadiia Bashynska on Instagram: "Finding Her Edge ⛸️ What an incredible opportunity to have met and worked with such beautiful humans. Everyone from crew and cast absolutely blew my mind with their dedication and passion for this show. Friends that h

256 likes, 14 comments - nadiia_bashynska on January 23, 2026: "Finding Her Edge ⛸️ What an incredible opportunity to have met and worked with such beautiful humans. Everyone from crew and cast absolutely blew my mind with their dedication and passion for this show. Friends that have been made...

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[Badams]

I watched this entire show today because it's cold out and January. I liked it . I will probably watch it again. It's a good winter time sucker.

 

[TanithandBenFan]

It drives me crazy when they refer to programs as “routines.”

 

[Sylvia]

@TanithandBenFan this popped up on my Instagram timeline just now : https://www.instagram.com/reel/DT1RLuED1gY/

ETA - this GSD thread was about what he (Brennan Martin) said in March 2025: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...r-says-toronto-skating-rinks-are-dumb.112704/

 

[marshallpond]

Started watching it, but can't suspend reality that the bitchy sister is aiming for Worlds with double jumps and mediocre spins. And the middle child of the Russos - I can't figure out in the first episode if she's a pair skater or ice dancer; just that she skated with a partner before.

Also, the whole team of one skating rink, comprising singles and ice dancers, lives in one house. Other than the Israeli skaters training in NJ, I have not heard of skaters that train together in one rink ("Team Russo") living together in one gigantic house.

Then they had what I thought was a demo or tryout but with judges so not sure if it was a competition, and one of the performers was Alexei Morita doing a hydroblade. Alexei only wears hockey skates on all his Instagram posts, even when he skates on wild ice/frozen lakes, but he's a Canadian with 1.4M followers on Instagram so they had to include him.

I will see if it is something I can stomach to finish. I watched 3 episodes last night but thought finishing the Korean drama with 9-tailed fox goddess was more interesting to watch than Finding Her Edge

 

[TanithandBenFan]

I finished the show last night, and what always bothers me most about these shows is how cheesy/amateurish the skating comes across. They should employ actual skaters to be the leads and not just the doubles. It's not like the actors are knocking it out of the park with their acting skills. I'd rather take my chances with some real ice dancers, and then at least the skating scenes would be more dynamic and we'd have less dance studio scenes with cheese choreography that would never be done on ice.

It would also be nice if they didn't try to dumb down the sport. The book didn't have Worlds "qualifiers." Of course, the book had its own issues - a dance team competing in both junior and senior levels in the same Nationals lol - but the show made it even worse with these dumb qualifiers complete with a red carpet.

 

[marbri]

The mistake you all are making is thinking this is actually a show about figure skating when it's really just a show for those who love love triangles where the female lead has to choose between boy next door or the bad boy. Skating is just the background to give them something to build the formula around.

 

[Miezekatze]

I‘m enjoying it (seen 4 and a half episodes now). I had a bad start to the week and it has the perfect ingredients for taking your mind of things.

I'd totally be choosing Braydon though...the boy next door looks like the guy in the Lord of the Rings movie and does nothing but looking around wistfully, not attractive

It's a bit over the top how all the characters are either super over bitchy or super overtly nice, but well.

And brilliant how you qualify for Worlds by placing 2nd at Regionals (?)

I'm looking forward to watching Heated Rivalry afterwards though , which can only be absolutely magnificent in comparison, but I still think Finding her Edge is a totally ok show for its genre.