Last Chance U

Name: Last Chance U
Genre: Documentary

2016–2023NetflixDocumentary

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Junior college football players with one season left to be recruited, and a marching-band cue for a theme.

Last Chance U opens with a main title sequence of 27 seconds.

At 27 seconds, it opens well under the 37-second median for documentary sequences in this catalogue.

It arrived on Netflix in 2016, when Mystery Science Theater 3000, Arrested Development and Top Boy were also on the network.

1 sequence321st most looked up of 760 in the 2010sIMDb ↗

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The opening titles

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Posted by the music publisher who supplied the cue, with the sequence attached.

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