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- 2016
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- Netflix
- 2016
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Summary Greg Whiteley's docuseries focuses on East Mississippi Community College as it begins a new season with a 24-game winning streak.
- 2016
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2016
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Last Chance U
5 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: Jul 29, 2016
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7.7
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Summary Greg Whiteley's docuseries focuses on East Mississippi Community College as it begins a new season with a 24-game winning streak.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
79
100% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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It’s a rollicking entertainment. There are ticking-clock countdowns to big games, on-the-field implosions, a devotional rap video, a grudge match. Pinkard shines, throughout, a walking exemplar of the possibilities of higher education, talking with raw honesty about her struggles, doing her damnedest to teach her kids about the possibilities of life off the field, opportunities they never learned about. ... It’s stunningly well-made.
What Last Chance U shows time and again is how capturing all of these intertwined fates takes more than just a cursory glance at a clip reel. It’s about showing that no one person is bigger than the team, but that doesn’t mean each of them don’t deserve the chance to tell their story.
This sequel keeps the established skeleton of a fall slate of games, brings back some beloved characters and checks in on departed favorites. The subject may be sports, but this is as TV as TV gets.
Several episodes become an exploration of gentrification and what happens to an urban space when the people who have lived there for generations can no longer afford to stay. In this respect, it's a more provocative and timely season.
How do you balance the game that you’ve played and loved since a child with the obligation to become an adult? That’s the question that hums through Last Chance U, and the show is cleverly structured in the way that it devotes the final act of at least the two episodes I’ve seen to that week’s game.
It may not have a Coach Taylor, but Last Chance U is the kind of compassionate human drama worth cheering. [21/28 July 2017, p.109]
Whitely succeeds in the basic goal of Last Chance U, which is to make you care about the success or failure of a JUCO football team in Mississippi. ... Maybe the next four episodes will offer more Scooba, more variations on the redemptive "last chance" theme and perhaps an introduction to a jock willing and able to read "The Most Dangerous Game."
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 51 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 51 User Ratings
7.7
80% Positive
41 Ratings
41 Ratings
8% Mixed
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12% Negative
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Production Company:
- Conde Nast Entertainment
- Endgame Pictures
- Boardwalk Pictures
- The RWC
Initial Release Date: Jul 29, 2016
Number of seasons: 5 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
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Awards
International Documentary Association
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Sports Emmy Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 1 Nomination
