Last Chance U offers a compelling look, not just at collegiate athletics, but at the lives of the young men for whom life has been a struggle. There's no question that each of the incredibly talented students highlighted in the first two seasons, playing for vaunted juco powerhouse East Mississippi Community College (EMCC), have faced obstacles to success that most of us have never even considered. The show offers an insight into those struggles, the institutional injustices that aggravate them, the people willing to take advantage of them for the sake of their own success, and most importantly, the people who actually care for these young men, many of whom have no understanding of what it means to have others care.
Whether or not you enjoy sports or football, you can't help but feel for these kids. I cheered for their every success and mourned for their losses, the personal losses, not the ones on the field. If you cannot see how this show is an indictment of the American educational system, you are just not paying close enough attention.