There was a shocking end to the third season of The
Chi. After rescuing Keisha from her abductor,
Ronnie was rewarded with a bullet to his head, a delayed payback from murdering
Coogie back in the first season. That
original season was about how the lives of four black men at different stages
of their development on the south side of Chicago intersected. Now half of them are dead.
Now there are just Emmett and Kevin left on the show. But their lives have intertwines with plenty
of other Chicagoans in the ensuing seasons to pick up the slack of those that
were lost. Kevin, along with his two
best friends Jake and Papa, have grown from boys to almost men. Jake has two surrogate fathers in his life
now, his real life brother who showed up after his other brother died and Douda,
a gangsta turned politician, granted what is really the difference? Emmett finally married his baby momma, except
before that happened, he hooked up with his business partner who is now dating
his father. That is some Jerry Springer
shirt right there.
The third season starts off with a montage set to one of the
greatest song ever put on wax. Well, it
is part montage, part promo because all of it turns out to be scenes of what is
to come this season as the montage culminates with something very huge happening
followed by a “One Month Earlier” title card.
Unfortunately what follows is a very clunky Black Lives Matter plot and a
lot of heavy hand scenes that seems like they were added because the writers
felt obligated to include it since it was such a big story in the lives of black
people in between seasons. Personally, I
would much rather spend time watching Papa record his new podcast.
The Chi airs Sundays at 9:00 on Showtime.
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