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After an eight-season run, The Chi now heads into its series finale after spotlighting the many heartaches, tragedies, joys and triumphs of a tight-knit Chicago South Side community.
What audiences have found in the Showtime/Paramount + streaming series is a tapestry of people who live on the vast South Side of the city of Chicago, a section of that is home for a great majority of the city’s Black population. In The Chi, like in real life, the people who live in these communities run the gamut from working-class citizens to well-off small-business owners and dedicated church-going people to members of the LGBTQ community, as well as the most hardcore violent gangsters.
Many of this community’s neighbors and family members, however, are connected by the commonly known theory of “six degrees of separation.” Their social economic backgrounds may be different, but viewers can be sure they will all cross paths either during a family member’s summer barbecue, reunion with school classmates, a community social gatherings, or, of course, a funeral or wedding.
The Chi’s creator and executive producer Lena Waithe recently spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about her vision for the streaming series when she first started developing storylines.
