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AMC+ and Sundance Now’s Litvinenko and the second season of Netflix’s Last Chance U: Basketball are premiering in the same week, but you can expect that precious few reviews will note that the two shows — one a scripted docudrama and the other an unscripted docuseries — suffer, to different degrees, from a common flaw: If you’re dedicated to actively depicting reality, that can sometimes require accepting, or even embracing, the narrative limitations of reality.
In Last Chance U: Basketball, the return to East Los Angeles College in the aftermath of a year lost to Covid-19 forces coach John Mosley to struggle with finding the soul of a team that needs to replace all of its stars from last season. He bemoans a directionless squad that lacks leadership and cohesion and, for several episodes, that means the season does as well. The...
AMC+ and Sundance Now’s Litvinenko and the second season of Netflix’s Last Chance U: Basketball are premiering in the same week, but you can expect that precious few reviews will note that the two shows — one a scripted docudrama and the other an unscripted docuseries — suffer, to different degrees, from a common flaw: If you’re dedicated to actively depicting reality, that can sometimes require accepting, or even embracing, the narrative limitations of reality.
In Last Chance U: Basketball, the return to East Los Angeles College in the aftermath of a year lost to Covid-19 forces coach John Mosley to struggle with finding the soul of a team that needs to replace all of its stars from last season. He bemoans a directionless squad that lacks leadership and cohesion and, for several episodes, that means the season does as well. The...
- 12/15/2022
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
At this point, it would almost be impossible for “Last Chance U: Basketball” to fail. It’s not that there’s some key formula that any crew can come in and replicate with ease. It’s more that through its football origins, its parallel work on “Cheer,” and at East Los Angeles College for two seasons now, the “Last Chance U: Basketball” crew have identified what it takes to immerse a viewer in a program.
We’ve spoke at length many times about this show’s ability to pick out biographical details, seize on candid moments, and present in-game action with elegance and a level of immediacy just short of strapping a camera to players’ foreheads. All of that is present in “Last Chance U: Basketball” Season 2. It remains one of the best Netflix shows of any genre, and it returns as an immediate entry among the best documentaries of this year.
We’ve spoke at length many times about this show’s ability to pick out biographical details, seize on candid moments, and present in-game action with elegance and a level of immediacy just short of strapping a camera to players’ foreheads. All of that is present in “Last Chance U: Basketball” Season 2. It remains one of the best Netflix shows of any genre, and it returns as an immediate entry among the best documentaries of this year.
- 12/14/2022
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Last Chance U: Basketball is a doc series about s college basketball team directed by Greg Whiteley, Adam Leibowitz and Daniel McDonald.
Sports fans! Here is the second season of the Emmy Award winning series. This time around it is the great sport, basketball, that sets the stage.
Last year we got to enjoy ‘Last Chance U‘, and were given an up and close look at the East Mississippi Community College football team. The Emmy award winning show has now, after an interruption due to the Covid-19 pandemic, completed its second season.
In eight episodes we get an inside look at the East L.A. College basketball team, the Huskies. We follow the players and the coach, and are shown their trajectory, that is by no means an easy ride. It is an intimate take where the protagonists show their vulnerable selves, their insecurities, their victories, their stories of hardship,...
Sports fans! Here is the second season of the Emmy Award winning series. This time around it is the great sport, basketball, that sets the stage.
Last year we got to enjoy ‘Last Chance U‘, and were given an up and close look at the East Mississippi Community College football team. The Emmy award winning show has now, after an interruption due to the Covid-19 pandemic, completed its second season.
In eight episodes we get an inside look at the East L.A. College basketball team, the Huskies. We follow the players and the coach, and are shown their trajectory, that is by no means an easy ride. It is an intimate take where the protagonists show their vulnerable selves, their insecurities, their victories, their stories of hardship,...
- 12/13/2022
- by TV Shows Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid - TV
The critically-acclaimed, Emmy-nominated series returns to East Los Angeles College (Elac) to give viewers another honest, gritty look inside the world of community college basketball. Directed by Greg Whiteley, Adam Leibowitz, and Daniel George McDonald, the series picks up a year after Covid caused an abrupt and emotional end to Elac’s championship run in 2020. Head coach John Mosley is eager to get back on the court with an almost entirely new roster of Huskies, including talented but troubled D1 level athletes looking for a last opportunity to make it. Off the court, players get vulnerable sharing their personal struggles of family instability, mental health, homlessness, and more. Over 8 episodes, viewers will follow the team’s journey as players work to overcome personal demons and fight for their spot on the court.
Last Chance U: Basketball Season 2 premieres December 13 on Netflix.
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Last Chance U: Basketball Season 2 premieres December 13 on Netflix.
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- 11/16/2022
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
East Los Angeles College was a team of destiny in 2020 — and then Covid changed all our fates.
Well, the Elac Huskies and head hoops coach John Mosley are back — and so are Greg Whiteley’s cameras for Season 2 of Netflix sports-documentary series “Last Chance U: Basketball.” The sophomore season for the spinoff of Whiteley’s Juco football docuseries “Last Chance U” will premiere December 13 on the streaming service. Netflix released a trailer on Tuesday; check it out below.
Beyond Mosley, you won’t see a whole lot of familiar faces in the sneak preview. That’s kind of the nature of prestige junior college sports — or at least, it is if all goes according to plan. But before the dreams of a major transfer can take place, the talented players, many of whom lost Division I scholarships for behavioral and/or academic reasons, will attempt to gel enough to win a championship.
Well, the Elac Huskies and head hoops coach John Mosley are back — and so are Greg Whiteley’s cameras for Season 2 of Netflix sports-documentary series “Last Chance U: Basketball.” The sophomore season for the spinoff of Whiteley’s Juco football docuseries “Last Chance U” will premiere December 13 on the streaming service. Netflix released a trailer on Tuesday; check it out below.
Beyond Mosley, you won’t see a whole lot of familiar faces in the sneak preview. That’s kind of the nature of prestige junior college sports — or at least, it is if all goes according to plan. But before the dreams of a major transfer can take place, the talented players, many of whom lost Division I scholarships for behavioral and/or academic reasons, will attempt to gel enough to win a championship.
- 11/15/2022
- by Tony Maglio
- Indiewire
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