“When I am playing basketball, everything goes away, everything. Its peaceful out there, it takes my focus of everything I have in life. I think that is why I love it so much. I think that why it’s my therapy.”
Special. That is one way to describe this show. No other way.
The Huskies of East Lost Angeles (ELAC) collage are a team of destiny, full of division 1 prospects with having some demons in their heads.
Coach John Mosley is the glue to the entire show, this show isn’t really about basketball. As Mosley says ‘Everybody’s got a story and everybody’s different. If you really want to help a kid, you have to sit and listen and learn what they are going through and dealing with it’.
His way of training is very expressive from having 8-minute silences to long speeches he always has his little quirks as the players calls it to get their attention. His honest, endearing just makes it a compelling watch.
Each episode profiles a different basketball player as you understand their story and how they ended up to ELAC. However, when they are shooting every single game, the edit is beautiful but makes the audience to feel on the edge.
Unlike the first season, it feels much closer to finding how this team clicks together and struggling to find an identity.
Directors Greg Whiteley, Adam Leibowitz and Daniel George McDonald using three main themes to make this show unique, these are tightly wound authority, astonishing game action but most of all compassionate athlete’s stories. You might not think that the premise for this show is for you, but anyone who loves entertaining and meaningful television cannot fail to be moved by their individual journey.
This show allows people who don’t know much about basketball, to delve deeper into the long and sometimes painful journeys that these young men have to go through, especially because many of them come from disadvantaged background.
There is no question that The Last Chance U’s format has proven successful such as the American Football edition. I am excited to see what other new sports the producers can explore.