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LAST CHANCE U: LANEY Stream on Netflix. On its final football-focused season before shifting to basketball in 2021, “Last Chance U” follows the junior college football program at Laney College in Oakland, Calif. Under the leadership of the coach, John Beam, the team must work to overcome injuries and personal obstacles to defend its 2018 national championship. This season, the show will also examine how Oakland’s changing community — which has seen gentrification — has affected the players who commute and live near campus. As Beam puts it in the trailer for the series, “They have the weight of the world sometimes on their shoulders.”
MAXXX Stream on Hulu. The British actor O-T Fagbenle may be best known in America for his more serious roles in “Handmaid’s Tale” or “The Five.” But this series, which Fagbenle wrote and stars in, shows the actor in a more comedic light. He plays Maxxx, a formerly famous boy band member who tries to make a comeback with the help of his former manager (played by Christopher Meloni) and win back his supermodel ex-girlfriend (Jourdan Dunn). Maxxx instead falls under the watchful eye of an aspiring manager, played by Pippa Bennett-Warner, who works to keep him out of trouble. He also enlists the help of his son, (Alan Asaad), and his superfan cousin, Rose (Helen Monks).
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STOCKTON ON MY MIND 9 p.m. on HBO. In 2016, 26-year-old Michael Tubbs became the first Black mayor for his hometown, Stockton, Calif, and one of the youngest mayors of an American city. Born to a teenage mother and an incarcerated father in the first major U.S. city to declare bankruptcy in the wake of the Great Recession, he went on to graduate from Stanford and intern at Google and the White House. After his win, Tubbs worked to make Stockton somewhat of an incubator city, experimenting with progressive policies aimed at reversing its poverty, violent crime and low literacy rates. This documentary follows Tubbs over three years as he sets these policies into motion, and chronicles personal milestones, like the birth of his son, along the way.
HOW TO ROB A BANK 10 p.m. on Vice TV. There are a whole host of reasons someone might decide to rob a bank. For Sonny Wortzik, in “Dog Day Afternoon,” the motive was money for his boyfriend’s gender reassignment surgery. For the protagonist in “Cherry,” it was to fuel an opioid addiction. But for the crew in “Point Break,” or the career criminal Forrest Tucker, it seemed to be merely an adrenaline-charged stunt. This series exposes the similarly diverse motives real people have had for robbing banks, examining how they did it and why, from a bank manager who starts robbing banks from the inside to a Christian rock singer in need of cash to fund his new career as a professional poker player.
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