Much as the sports world likes to put emphasis on X factors and MVPs, it’s rarely one individual that makes a disproportionate difference on a team. Especially in a sport like football, with so many moving parts and a constantly changing mechanism of fragile psyches, complex plays, and a bevy of coaching staff members, it’s hard for a single person to rise so far above their peers. Even in the cases when a transformational talent suits up, rarely does a concentrated narrative around a sole player benefit any sort of story around the team itself.
In its third season, the Netflix docuseries “Last Chance U” reinforces that idea alongside another one that it’s explored in plenty of games on the field and countless hours of life decisions off of it: No one’s life story can be told the same way. The series has bolstered that philosophy...
In its third season, the Netflix docuseries “Last Chance U” reinforces that idea alongside another one that it’s explored in plenty of games on the field and countless hours of life decisions off of it: No one’s life story can be told the same way. The series has bolstered that philosophy...
- 7/20/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
If our headline seems like a strange takeaway from an interview with a football coach-turned reality TV star, just watch a few episodes of “Last Chance U” Season 3. And then watch a few more, because Greg Whiteley’s Netflix docuseries is (still) really good, and Icc’s Jason Brown is quite the character.
A few of the non-pigskin-related recurring topics on this just-released run of “Last Chance U” revolve around the Independence Community College head football coach’s luxury possessions, like his beach house back in California and the former Compton quarterback’s numerous Cadillac cars. Now mired in the Middle of Nowhere, Kansas, Brown doesn’t have much more to talk about than some X’s and O’s and those earthly items.
There certainly isn’t any food or recreation there to speak of.
Also Read: 'Last Chance U' Breakout Brittany Wagner on How She Ever...
A few of the non-pigskin-related recurring topics on this just-released run of “Last Chance U” revolve around the Independence Community College head football coach’s luxury possessions, like his beach house back in California and the former Compton quarterback’s numerous Cadillac cars. Now mired in the Middle of Nowhere, Kansas, Brown doesn’t have much more to talk about than some X’s and O’s and those earthly items.
There certainly isn’t any food or recreation there to speak of.
Also Read: 'Last Chance U' Breakout Brittany Wagner on How She Ever...
- 7/20/2018
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
And we’re back in the game.
Netflix dropped the first trailer for the upcoming third season of its sports docuseries “Last Chance U” Tuesday, giving viewers a look at the new rising junior college football program they will be following, the Independence Pirates. And these guys, are uh, well they are a little down on their luck compared to the star players we watched during the show’s first two seasons at East Mississippi Community College.
According to this season’s logline, the quaint town of Independence, Kansas, is the new setting, as the underdog Pirates of Independence Community College have a chance to finally stand tall after more than a decade of losses — or so believes their bigger-than-life head coach, Jason Brown. A sharp-tongued, yet compassionate son of Compton, California, Brown aims to get the Pirates their first conference title in over 30 years, and doesn’t care if...
Netflix dropped the first trailer for the upcoming third season of its sports docuseries “Last Chance U” Tuesday, giving viewers a look at the new rising junior college football program they will be following, the Independence Pirates. And these guys, are uh, well they are a little down on their luck compared to the star players we watched during the show’s first two seasons at East Mississippi Community College.
According to this season’s logline, the quaint town of Independence, Kansas, is the new setting, as the underdog Pirates of Independence Community College have a chance to finally stand tall after more than a decade of losses — or so believes their bigger-than-life head coach, Jason Brown. A sharp-tongued, yet compassionate son of Compton, California, Brown aims to get the Pirates their first conference title in over 30 years, and doesn’t care if...
- 6/19/2018
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
After two seasons spent alongside football players in East Mississippi, “Last Chance U” is heading to Kansas. In Season 3, the Netflix documentary series will find a new home amongst the Independence Community College Pirates.
Netflix has released the first look for the new “Last Chance U” season, showing that even with the venue change, the show will still balance the lives of the team’s players in the classroom, on the field, and in their time spent away from those two places.
The series’ first two seasons focused on the East Mississippi Community College Lions and coach Buddy Stephens, who entered both years of being subjects as one of the dominant squads in junior collegiate athletics. This new stint with the Pirates introduces Jason Brown, an incoming ex-NFLer tasked with turning around a perennially underachieving program.
As with past seasons, the team is a mixture of players looking to get...
Netflix has released the first look for the new “Last Chance U” season, showing that even with the venue change, the show will still balance the lives of the team’s players in the classroom, on the field, and in their time spent away from those two places.
The series’ first two seasons focused on the East Mississippi Community College Lions and coach Buddy Stephens, who entered both years of being subjects as one of the dominant squads in junior collegiate athletics. This new stint with the Pirates introduces Jason Brown, an incoming ex-NFLer tasked with turning around a perennially underachieving program.
As with past seasons, the team is a mixture of players looking to get...
- 6/19/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
“Last Chance U,” like any other show worth a sophomore season, carefully approaches both past and present. The East Mississippi Community College Lions, the football team profiled in the first season of the Netflix documentary series, are back again, but this new round of stories lives in the shadow of those that came before. 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.
The show’s second season, tracking Emcc’s 2016 season, has the added layer of self-awareness. As a town shy of 1,000 people, director Greg Whiteley’s Netflix series has now created an identity for Scooba, Mississippi, one that not all its citizens are particularly happy with. Football players are never just football players, especially at any level above Pop Warner. But...
The show’s second season, tracking Emcc’s 2016 season, has the added layer of self-awareness. As a town shy of 1,000 people, director Greg Whiteley’s Netflix series has now created an identity for Scooba, Mississippi, one that not all its citizens are particularly happy with. Football players are never just football players, especially at any level above Pop Warner. But...
- 7/21/2017
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Are you ready to take another chance? Netflix has announced the season two of its Last Chance U TV show will be released on Friday, July 21, 2017. A sports docu-series from director Greg Whiteley, Last Chance U gives a behind-the-scenes look at the junior college football program under Coach Buddy Stephens, at East Mississippi Community College (Emcc). Read More…...
- 6/13/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Concussions have been a heated topic in the football world lately, something that many coaches try to avoid, so it was no surprise that it was the first thing brought up during the TCA panel for the Netflix docuseries Last Chance U. “It’s something that we have to address everyday,” said Buddy Stephens, coach of the East Mississippi Community College Lions. “You have to constantly monitor the players and the hits that they take to the head. It’s hard to get a lot of these…...
- 7/27/2016
- Deadline TV
With three-straight national titles and consistent pipeline of talent to Division I programs, few junior college football programs are as successful but less-known than East Mississippi Community College. Now the town of Scooba, Mississippi (with a population of 730) and the team are the subject of an in-depth, six-part docu-series, titled Last Chance U, that debuts on Netflix on July 29th.
Following the Lions and controversial Coach Buddy Stephens as they strive for their fourth National Championship in 2015, audiences will meet the men underneath the helmets as they struggle to do...
Following the Lions and controversial Coach Buddy Stephens as they strive for their fourth National Championship in 2015, audiences will meet the men underneath the helmets as they struggle to do...
- 7/5/2016
- Rollingstone.com
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