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| Netflix | Season Premiere Date: March 10, 2021 |
Summary:
The documentary series expands to junior college basketball with the 2019-2020 season of the East Los Angeles College Huskies.
Genre(s):
Sports, Documentary
Season 1 Episodes
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S1:E8. Episode 08
Air Date: March 10, 2021
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S1:E7. Episode 07
Air Date: March 10, 2021
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S1:E6. Episode 06
Air Date: March 10, 2021
Mar 10, 2021
Last Chance U may have found its ideal coach. ... This scrappy coach was blessed with a bumper crop of talent, each with their own Last Chance U-ready narrative. ... Watching Mosley clearly anguish over his loss, I found myself wishing, for the very first time in a year, for the true return of sports.
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Mar 11, 2021
Last Chance U: Basketball would have been an excellent sports docuseries under any circumstances, but what makes it extraordinary is the fact that it was filmed during the 2019–2020 season, which means that certain real-life events collide with the Huskies’ story. ... The coronavirus pandemic eventually affects the team as well, leading to one of the more visceral and moving attempts on television so far to capture the loss and uncertainty that immediately set in as the epidemic began.
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Mar 4, 2021
IndieWire
Mar 12, 2021
Mar 9, 2021
It's one of 2021's early standouts for all of the reasons you expect and a few you don't see coming. ... Without helmets or masks, it's a sport where emotions are on full display and it's also a sport that allows closer camera access, especially for a team that doesn't play in a cavernous arena packed with fans. Add in that basketball teams simply play more games and that means that Last Chance U: Basketball has more and more intimate sports action than its predecessors, delivered with the usual propulsive sense of in-game momentum.
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The Guardian
Mar 10, 2021
Mosley is the embodiment of a teacher’s noble purpose. It is here that the intimacy and intensity of basketball – with nowhere to hide on that small court, or in a tightly woven squad of 16 players – brings this season of Last Chance U to an emotional pitch that the show has not always been able to hit.
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Seasons & Episodes
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Season 2
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Season 2 Overview
Air Date: December 13, 2022
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Season 2 Overview
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Season 1
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: March 10, 2021
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S1:E8. Episode 08
Air Date: March 10, 2021
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S1:E7. Episode 07
Air Date: March 10, 2021
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S1:E6. Episode 06
Air Date: March 10, 2021
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S1:E5. Episode 05
Air Date: March 10, 2021
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S1:E4. Episode 04
Air Date: March 10, 2021
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S1:E3. Episode 03
Air Date: March 10, 2021
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S1:E2. Episode 02
Air Date: March 10, 2021
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S1:E1. Episode 01
Air Date: March 10, 2021
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Season 1 Overview