Led by producer-director Greg Whiteley, the team behind Netflix's Last Chance U is tremendously good at what they do. That doesn't mean that every season of Last Chance U has been tremendous.
As with any unstructured, fly-on-the-wall piece of unscripted storytelling, the Last Chance U crew is at the mercy of whatever junior college football team they're following in a given season.
Will the team have a compelling arc? Will players and their personalities evolve in compelling ways? Will a grand narrative emerge, and will it be dramatically satisfying?
But after five seasons, I feel comfortable that whatever the story ends up being, the Last Chance U team will tell it as well as it can be told, which is a hugely reassuring sensation to have.
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