Charlie-walk around the neighborhood, through the alleys behind the middle school, past the county offices block and into some obscure side streets.
Day: August 3, 2016
Last Chance U.
Confession: As a genre, sports movies are not my favorite thing. But tonight we did the first two episodes of this six-part Netflix documentary. Run, don’t walk to your TV or computer and get online with this one, whether or not you give a rip about football. The thing follows the humans — players, coaches, and all the rest — involved in the football program of East Mississippi Community College (aka Last Chance U.) in the tiny (population 761) town of Scooba, Mississippi. One of the best documentaries of any kind I’ve seen for a long time …