With increasing pressure for page views, TV audiences, and sales, news media often finds itself adding some salt and pepper to the bland news. However, the lives that make an appearance in these sensationalized news items are much than as they are painted. The Chi TV show on Showtime explores the humanity behind the headlines sensationalizing the South Side of Chicago.
The Chi TV Show Cast
The Chi is entirely filmed in Chicago and follows people of different age groups and social standing as they get entangles with the law and justice system.
The Chi (2018)
Developed By: Elwood Reid
Cast: Jason Mitcehll, Jacob Latimore, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Alex Hibbert, Yolanda Ross, Tiffany Boone
Network: Showtime
Air Date: January 7 2018, 10 PM
The Chi TV Show Plot
The Chi TV Show is a timely coming-of-age story for all ages, centering on a group of residents who become linked by circumstance but bond over the need for connection and redemption.
Brandon (Jason Mitchell) is a dreamer makes his own nearly impossible leap of faith to succeed in life and love with girlfriend Jerrika (Tiffany Boone). Emmett (Jacob Latimore) is the carefree teen thrust into complex responsibilities with guidance from his mother Jada (Yolonda Ross). Ronnie (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine) is the drifter whose struggle for reciprocal love calls into question his every pursuit.
Pre-teen Kevin (Alex Hibbert), an unwitting eyewitness, must step past shattered illusions to return to the normal rites and passages of a childhood interrupted. They’re all under the watchful eye of law enforcement, but Detective Cruz (Armando Riesco), a good neighborhood cop, works every case with justice, not incarceration, as his end goal.
Their collective yearning to make their lives worthwhile and to overcome the roadblocks society has laid out for them, as well as their own personal flaws, drives the storytelling in this arresting, deeply felt series.
The Chi TV Show Trailer
Watch this trailer of The Chi TV Show on Showtime and tell us what you think about this new Drama.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8h-Hp0uRu4
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