We might have been the last people on Earth to start watching streaming TV, but we are fully committed now. We are on board.
More or less in order: Prison Break, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Queen’s Gambit, Ozark, Afterlife, and a few more that we just sampled and may revisit again someday. Some pretty good stuff in there, but everyone knows about all of those shows already.
I want to mention a show we’re watching now that we really like and that you may not know about: Last Chance U (Basketball).
Last Chance U started a few years ago and focused on football programs at community colleges around the country, the kind of places where players go when they had bad grades in high school, or tried a year of college and it didn’t work out for some reason. Key point: nobody wants to be there, they want to be somewhere else better but need to start there.
Last year they did a basketball version for the first time, about East L.A. College. We found all the coaches and players likable (some presented a bit more of a challenge in this area) and easy to pull for. It’s a view of young men, and of college sports, that you never ever see unless you know someone personally in one of these programs.
Eight episodes, around 50 minutes each, on Netflix. Worth checking out. Here’s the official trailer.
Tomorrow: another show we like called The Kominsky Method.