The Chi

From season 3 onwards it becomes a different show, and it lacks the realism and the emotional and social range that it had in the begining. One of the main cast leaving the show was inevitable due to the circumstances that no one really saw coming. My review is biased because as much as the show has changed and some of the plotlines that open don't always seem to come to a satisfying close, for me it doesn't matter how drama driven the show has become, I have grown to care so much about these characters and what they are going through. I might need to suspend certain elements of realism to follow the show and some its questionable writing choices, but I love these characters. I like seeing Shaad try and put his life together after being in prison, and seeing him try to have that same positive impact on other young men in the area like Bakari. I care so much about the kids and they have from the begining been one of the most high points of this show. I am looking forward to watching the sixth and final season. I really want to see if the writers allow space to see these kids get help with processing the traumas that they have had to endure in a way that is effective, we've seen Kevin go to therapy only a few times in the first season and so much has happened since then. I want to see the show end on an overall positive note.

Season 3 has got to be the slowest downhill fall ever for this series. I'm so bored with it smh. Started off good with the first two seasons now it's stuck in neutral.

The moment you start watching "the Wire" pops in ones head. Which is a huge praise. The raw, real feeling of the world, characters, complexity and interconnectedness. Great show, cool. However... With season 3 it begins to lose the spirit. But nothing like season 4. Abysmal. Crucial characters puf!...disappear, huge storylines fade off, melodrama turned up to 11 filling everything and we get these little pop farts of storylines instead of (a)strong ones.

Season 4 might as well not have been filmed. It was a waste of time. Big idea, big story plot point, big issues. All just...left and unresolved, pushed aside to favour stupid ever revolving love drama that gets SO SO tiring and boring constantly repeating same old thing over and over again.

Just stop... You have ruined it. If season 4 is the jump off for season 5 and the same talentless hack of showrunner remains, spare yourself the ridicule of filming more of this pathetic insultingly dull product you call a tv show.

I was excited to watch this show over the first maybe 3 episodes. A lot of street interaction, gangs, a window into their South Side of Chicago tough lives. The past two seasons though, kinda suck. If I wanted to see boyfriend / girlfriend in the ghetto stories, I would be watching BET - or Lifetime.

Kissie-kissie - nice-nice.

Story line has become way too simplistic and unrealistic. Please !! Get this ship back on course !!!

I read the reviews of the people saying Season 3 was terrible compared to 1 and 2 snd had to see for myself. Sorry for doubting you. Reasons why? (1) Did we really need LaLa Anthony and Kandi Burress added to the cast? (2) Kidnapping plot was ridiculous (3) Too much ancillary plots no one cared about

Hope it can recover.