--- title: "Finding Her Edge" year: 2026 kind: "series" canonical: "https://film.one/tv/finding-her-edge" fi1m_id: "finding-her-edge" imdb_id: "tt35495058" tmdb_id: 281401 wikidata_id: "Q137456023" fi1m_score: 52 critics_reviews: 2 published: "2026-09-24T20:09:26.028822+00:00" updated: "2026-09-24T20:10:11.176951+00:00" region: "US" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Finding Her Edge (2026) MPA TV-PG · Drama ## Identity Finding Her Edge - **Canonical:** https://film.one/tv/finding-her-edge - **Type:** Series - **Fi1m ID:** finding-her-edge - **IMDb ID:** tt35495058 - **TMDB ID:** 281401 - **Wikidata ID:** Q137456023 - **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35495058/, https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/281401, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137456023 **Fi1m score: 52** · Critics: 2 of 6 reviews so far *In a sentence:* Eight episodes of pleasant people gliding gracefully towards a conclusion you reached in the first one > Jennifer Iacopelli’s novel becomes eight gentle episodes about a skating family, a rink and the boy who came back. It is easy company and the Russo sisters are worth the time; the skating is chopped into pieces and nothing is allowed to stay wrong. ## Synopsis Adriana Russo (Madelyn Keys) is at the centre of an eight-episode drama adapted from Jennifer Iacopelli’s novel and built around ice dancing. She shares a surname, and most of the screen, with Maria Russo (Alice Malakhov), Elise Russo (Alexandra Beaton) and Will Russo (Harmon Walsh). Brayden Elliot (Cale Ambrozic) and Freddie O’Connell (Olly Atkins) are next in the billing, and the tagline, “It’s a thin line between love and skate”, tells you what kind of story to expect. Camille St-Denis (Meredith Forlenza), Charlie Monroe (Niko Ceci), Riley Monroe (Millie Davis) and Katya Belikova (Nicole Volossetski) complete the main cast. The first season runs to eight episodes, was first shown on 22 January 2026, and carries a 12 certificate. ## Review *Finding Her Edge* is an eight-part adaptation of Jennifer Iacopelli’s novel about a family of ice dancers, and its intentions are plain from the tagline: “It’s a thin line between love and skate.” It wants to be a warm, low-stakes teenage romance with sequins, the sort of thing you watch under a blanket with half your attention. On those terms it is a modest success. Watched with your whole attention it comes apart fairly quickly, because there is not much underneath. Madelyn Keys plays Adriana as a girl who has been told she is talented so often she has stopped hearing it, and she is good at the small, sulky reactions the part asks for. Cale Ambrozic’s Brayden is the steady one, and the scenes where the two of them argue about a lift or a piece of music are the most alive thing in the series. They look at each other like people who have spent years within arm’s reach, which is what skating partners are, and the writing trusts that. Olly Atkins has the harder job as Freddie, the boy who came back, and for several episodes he is given a great deal of significant looking and little else to do. The family is where the series is best. Alice Malakhov and Alexandra Beaton play Maria and Elise as sisters who love Adriana and are tired of her in roughly equal measure, and the three of them bicker with a rhythm that sounds like a real kitchen. Harmon Walsh’s Will hovers at the edge of these scenes and is likeable in them. We were bored for the first three episodes and mildly cross about it, and it was the sisters who eventually got us past that: their scenes are quiet, the camera stays back, and nobody says anything important. They are what the series should have been built around, and they are more or less on their own. The skating is the puzzle. Ice dancing is the point of the whole enterprise, and yet the series cuts away from it as if embarrassed. A programme arrives as a few seconds of wide shot, then faces, then a reaction in the stands, then the score, so we rarely see a lift begin and end in the same frame. When the camera does hold wide the doubling shows, and when it moves in close the actors are doing the arms and not much else. The rink is lit a cool, clean blue that photographs well and never changes, whether it is a Tuesday practice or a final. Whoever cut these sequences did not trust them, and the series is left with a sport it keeps promising and keeps hiding. The larger problem is that nothing is allowed to stay wrong. A row in the first ten minutes of an episode is mended by the last, a secret is out within an hour of being kept, and the rink’s troubles rise and fall on a schedule you could set a watch by. Eight episodes is a long time to spend with people who resolve everything before bed. Charlie and Riley Monroe (Niko Ceci and Millie Davis) and Katya Belikova (Nicole Volossetski) are there to be the competition, and the series is too polite to let any of them be properly unpleasant. Against the standard of its genre it is middling. *The Cutting Edge*, from 1992, took the same two ingredients, a rink and a pair who cannot stand each other, and got a whole film out of them in under two hours by letting its people be rude. *Spinning Out* went the other way and let its skaters be miserable. *Finding Her Edge* wants the sweetness of the one and the seriousness of the other and settles for being nice. It is a 12, and a soft one; there is nothing here to trouble a twelve-year-old and not much to keep an adult from checking their phone. Put it on while you do something else and it will pass eight pleasant evenings. Watch it properly and you will find yourself waiting for the sisters, who turn up, and for the skating, which mostly does not. *Fi1m score 52, published 24 September 2026.* ## Straight answers **Is Finding Her Edge worth watching?** *Finding Her Edge* is worth watching only as something to have on while you do something else, and we scored it 52. The Russo sisters are good company and Madelyn Keys and Cale Ambrozic argue well about lifts and music, but every quarrel is mended by the end of its episode and the skating is cut into scraps. Eight episodes is a long time to spend waiting for both. **How long is Finding Her Edge, and what is it rated?** *Finding Her Edge* is rated TV-PG by the MPA in the US. It is a drama series. **Where can I watch Finding Her Edge in the US?** *Finding Her Edge* is streaming on Netflix in the US. Availability is checked daily; the links above go straight to each service. **How violent or frightening is Finding Her Edge, and is it suitable for children?** *Finding Her Edge* is a 12 certificate and a soft one, with nothing violent or frightening in it. It is a gentle teenage romance about a family of ice dancers, and the worst anyone suffers is a sulk, a mislaid secret or a row that is over before bedtime. A twelve-year-old will be untroubled; an adult may find it hard to stay off their phone. **Is Finding Her Edge based on a true story or a book?** *Finding Her Edge* is based on Jennifer Iacopelli's novel of the same name, not on a true story. The eight episodes keep the book's shape, a skating family, a rink and the boy who came back, and you need no knowledge of the source to follow it. The series is pleasant rather than probing, so readers of the novel should not expect it to dig any deeper than the page did. ### Reviews we read (2) - **The Hollywood Reporter**, Angie Han (45/100, inferred): Han finds the series mildly diverting but bland and rarely engrossing, making it better as background viewing than as an attention-demanding drama. She singles out the ice-dancing sequences as its most distinctive element, while criticizing its uneven performances and character inconsistencies. [Read](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/finding-her-edge-review-netflix-1236481026/) - **Collider**, Isabella Soares (6/10): Soares finds the series cozy, entertaining YA fluff, though it falls short in its ice-dancing sequences. She praises the Russo sisters’ character development and the chemistry between Madelyn Keys and Cale Ambrozic. [Read](https://collider.com/finding-her-edge-review-netflix/) ## Details - **Novel:** Jennifer Iacopelli - **Cast:** Madelyn Keys as Adriana Russo; Alice Malakhov as Maria Russo; Alexandra Beaton as Elise Russo; Harmon Walsh as Will Russo; Cale Ambrozic as Brayden Elliot; Olly Atkins as Freddie O'Connell; Meredith Forlenza as Camille St-Denis; Niko Ceci as Charlie Monroe - **Certificate (MPA):** TV-PG - **Release (the US):** 22 January 2026 - **Genres:** Drama - **Trailer:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppZ3qgtFOME ## Where to watch in the US - Netflix: streaming *Checked 2026-09-24.* Also available in: AE, AR, AT, AU, AZ, BE, BG, BR, CA, CH, CL, CO, CZ, DE, DK, EC, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HK, HR, HU, ID, IE, IL, IN, IS, IT, JP, KR, LT, MX, MY, NL, NO, NZ, PA, PE, PH, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SG, SI, SK, TH, TR, UA, US, VN, ZA. Add `?region=XX` to this URL for another country. ## If you liked this - *The Cutting Edge* (1992): The rink romance done in ninety minutes, with people rude enough to be interesting. - *I, Tonya* (2017): Skating as blood sport; Margot Robbie makes the ice look genuinely dangerous. - *Spinning Out* (2020): A pairs skater, a family and real trouble; the darker series this one avoids being. - *Yuri!!! on Ice* (2016): Japanese animation that takes the sport seriously and shows every programme whole. - *Ice Princess* (2005): Gentle teenage skating comfort with a mother-daughter row worth the price. --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/tv/finding-her-edge