Just as Die Hard was hardly the first great '80s action movie yet became the template for countless enclosed-space-thrillers, Netflix's Last Chance U was far from the first football docuseries yet now it feels like every week sees the arrival of a new, very minor wrinkle on that formula.
It's a formula that goes something like: 40 percent tough-but-loving coach with an appetite for colorful obscenities and an ooey-gooey emotional center; 40 percent players including (but not limited to) the established superstar battling injuries and the out-of-nowhere scrub who becomes a star; and 20 percent portrait of an inevitably struggling community that may or may not live or die for the team.
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