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[This story contains spoilers from the series finale of The Chi, “The Last Dance.”]
Social media is still processing The Chi finale. For the most part, the feedback has been consistently good. Who can argue with an ending where Emmett and Kiesha, whom we first met hooking up as teenagers (with Kiesha getting caught under the bed by Emmett’s mama Jada), have a beautiful wedding in the backyard of the home Jada shared with Emmett’s father Darnell?
“It’s been surreal. I’m just watching it every week, watching how the fans have so much emotional connection to the show,” Jacob Latimore, who was 19 when he started playing Emmett and is turning 30 in August, tells The Hollywood Reporter. “The last day of filming was a big emotional day for all of us. The tears are still going as we watch it with the fans, and I think the fans are even feeling the goodbye, too.”
Birgundi Baker, who plays Kiesha, understands how people feel like they’ve grown up with their charachters. “I get people all the time [saying], ‘I watched you grow up on TV!’ That’s really the experience we’ve had with Emmett and Kiesha,” she tells THR. “They went from a boy and a girl to a woman and a man. They are parents, they have businesses and real feelings. We’ve watched their whole life unfold and come together, and unfold again so many times. We’ve watched their whole life happen on this show.”
