Last Chance U
5 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere:
Jul 29, 2016
Metascore
Generally Favorable
79
User score
Generally Favorable
7.7
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
100% Positive
13 Reviews
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Jul 26, 2018
100
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.
Jul 26, 2018
91
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.
Jul 21, 2017
83
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.
Jul 27, 2020
80
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.
Jul 28, 2016
80
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.
Jul 21, 2017
75
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]
Jul 29, 2016
70
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
82% Positive
46 Ratings
46 Ratings
7% Mixed
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Jul 26, 2020
6
To the kid in INDY Part 2 ep 2, Bobby. You could have made it to the NFL, all you had to do was put in a little work and keep your grades decent, but you thought you were better than everyone else and didn't have to work at all. Well, it turns out that you were not better than everyone else, and that your cool guy routine and lazy ass is just like everyone else from your neighborhood. If you had just worked hard and gave a little effort, you could have made the NFL and played on Sundays. Now you have 2 career choices, sell crack or clean the bathrooms. You give lazy talented people a bad name. If there are any kids that look up to you I would tell them to do the exact opposite od what you did.
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
Awards
International Documentary Association
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Sports Emmy Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 1 Nomination
