'The Chi' Falls Short Of Giving The South Side Its Own 'Wire'
Critic Eric Deggans has been waiting for a show that makes pop culture poetry out of Chicago's mostly black South Side neighborhoods — but The Chi doesn't quite hit the mark.
As a child of Gary, Ind., I've waited years for a TV show or movie to intimately explore Chicago's poor, mostly black South Side neighborhoods — like did for West Baltimore and did for South Central Los Angeles. I so wanted Showtime's , which debuts Sunday, to be that
