I have seen more recent depictions of tidally locked planets that have thick enough atmospheres that winds suffice to do enough cooling & heating to sustain the system.
Aren't many of those planets gas giants though? Which won't be able to harbor life.
Wouldn't there be a layer somewhere deep where water is liquid? It'd be boiling up in clouds to eventually freeze (which I guess would be a looong way up) or sink and turn to steam? Freeze?