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I hate the fact that tiff gets one kill and all of a sudden shes the head bitch in charge over everything and has the nerve to threaten bakaris life. I hope she knows if trig wasnt there bakari would smoke her dumbass. Then after that dumbass shit burying nuck in her backyard she decides to host emmett and keishas wedding at her house. Her dumbass is asking for trouble and shes letting the lil money and power alicia left her boost her ego into doing dumb shit. This show didnt know what to do with tiff so they decided to give her the same storyline as alicia, but it just doesn’t suit her. Shes too much of a bird brain to be alicia. Tiff is not gonna intimidate any of them niggas on the street not one bit. And how is trig this pussy whipped and aint even got the pussy yet😂man they really tanked his character smh

Honestly, they can go ahead and cancel the wedding. Why did Keisha wan’t to get married so badly if her and Emmett don’t have the funds to do so? First their engagement party was at Tiff’s. Now their wedding will be.. This wedding finna be a plot device and everyone will find out Tiff killed Nuck. Which is stupid, because why have a wedding at your house and you just buried a body in your backyard.

Let me know if I’m overthinking things yall:

Keisha joking “we both know Nuck isn’t the marrying type” combined with her obsession when Nuck went missing points towards some self-imposed lingering feelings. She’s willing to be blatantly blind to the life that Nuck lives because he’s her BD is a denial you put on when you have feelings for someone….She’s ready to jump the broom with Emmett but still feels like “he doesn’t know where he’s going”? They, but especially Keisha needs to see a therapist because there seems to be some suppressed feelings for Nuck. In addition to dating Nuck when she was pretty much underage, dont forget she was also secretly dating her track coach. Keisha seems to have a thing for older guys in positions of power and doesn’t seem to fully respect Emmett in terms of him being the man. It seems more like she tolerates him while trying to lord over him, which is a stance she’s never taken with her other BD. Thoughts?

dawg who is writing this bs wtf happened?????

Why she crying and acting shocked that Nuck was killed. Like this dude is a murderer and gang leader, with no intention to stop. She’s crying like he’s someone who didn’t deserve to die.

like I’m not even a “the chi” hater but this last season, and hell season 7 too have been horrible. they’re playing in our faces so bad with season 8. anyways, what do yall predict is going to happen ?

Why does Tiff all of sudden now mob boss level 100 😂 and why are people just doing what she says ? She about to get Bakari and Trig sent to prison or killed for something she did

Also why is everyone scared to Keisha anything? Nuck was scum lol who cares if she’s mad, because she’s a hypocrite. She let Nuck around the family but not Bakari. These writers are just doing shit bro to very clearly set up a spin off

Tiff weird ass is working my nerves and Bakari working em harder cause why tf is he letting literally everybody boss him around ????? Why not just gtfo with his sister and be done with it.

And why tiff bean head ass think she Alicia now???? off one kill… like cmon now. They need to gon head and wrap this shit up immediately. How is there 3 episodes left when ts is all over the place like this? Making zero sense.

I don’t understand why tiff has this level of power over people all of a sudden, bakari just letting her tell him what to do, put bodies on him like tiff finna be out here running niggas down to protect herself. I don’t why the show making her seem so big and bad when she doesn’t give that attitude at all. Them tryna make her like Alicia is so dumb imo

Thoughts?

Nick literally terrorized as bad as Douda; he killed TWO pastors, one of which was your little brother's best friend's dad. He literally was part of trafficking while you got kidnapped

Keisha is mourning him more than when her own man was in the hospital fighting for his life after being shot.

The writing on this show, I know we're going to complain, but the 'secrets' are literally nonexistent unless it's making someone justifiably dumb

This whole Roselyn Perry storyline makes little sense to me. Why did Roselyn even need to frame Shad and Trig? If her goal was Alicia, she could’ve just shot Alicia and kept it moving. The whole setup felt extra for no real reason.

And how did she even know who Shad was with? How did she know enough to bribe that specific woman? The show keeps skipping over important details and just expects us to accept the outcome.

Then Trig.This man is embarrassing at this point.

First he’s helping Tiff lure Nuck, now he’s helping Tiff frame Bakari? Fresh out of jail and already involved in more criminal mess. Then he’s standing there talking about, “So you’re the new Alicia?” Dawg what are YOU doing? 😂

And this whole “mob” situation is hilarious because what is the actual business? Tiff’s legal weed? That’s the product? That’s the empire? Tiff telling Bakari, “You’re gonna be next,” had me crying. Like what is this show now? Everybody suddenly talks like they’re in a low budget mafia movie.

Then Bakari says, “I always have a choice,” and immediately proceeds to admit to a murder he didn’t commit because he “owes Tiff.”

Man… what Tfff? 😭

Also, what is up with Fatima coming back and Trig? That whole thing feels random as hell. Also Shad a bitch.

Another thing: is Smokey’s the only place to work in Chicago? Everybody just ends up there. Esquire is already hired again. The show really treats Smokey’s like the central employment office.

And then Emmett’s worker being Kyla Pratt’s sister? So let me get this straight... Kyla Pratt’s character, Emmett’s nanny, and Emmett’s employee are all sisters? 😭

Again, Chicago must only have about 12 people in it because everybody is magically connected.

And where was Darnell’s girlfriend living before she met him? I get that they want to create this situation where Darnell is grieving Jada, but come on. He and his girlfriend are just lounging around Emmett’s house like they don’t have anywhere else to be.

Nothing feels natural. Characters are randomly connected, people make decisions that make no sense, and the show keeps creating dramatic situations without doing the work to make them believable.

I feel like the dialog this season been wonky. Sounds like a lecture video, a promo, or forced life lessons rather than characters talking. Examples below

1. "It's the Chi anything could happen" sounds like it was written for a promo trailer

2. The sex talk with Em and his son was mad awkward as the viewer. Are they assuming people watching with their children? Not saying teaching about consent is bad but the execution was cringe.

3. The anti cell phone agenda this season. Similar to above the message is good but execution is cringe. Nobody talks like a fortune cookie 🥠 in real life.

Idk I just feel like for the last season the script could be better. I don't recall the dialog ever being this noticeably bad.

I think this conversation has happened enough on this sub that it’s basically become part of watching The Chi.
My biggest takeaway is that progression isn’t always progress.

The early seasons felt like a show about people trying to survive inside systems. Families, gangs, politics, schools, neighborhoods, everything felt connected without feeling forced. Characters made decisions because of the world they lived in, and that world responded with believable consequences.

The 63rd Street Mob is probably the best example of what changed. Early on, there was actual sophistication. It wasn’t just who got shot next. There was territory, money, influence, buying up blocks, long term strategy, and building power. It felt like an organization.

Later, it increasingly became the Douda show. Instead of watching a criminal ecosystem, we watched one man become the answer to almost every conflict. The world actually became smaller.

Trig/Victor is another example. He started as one of the show’s most compelling redemption arcs. A former gang leader trying to become a community leader and politician. Over time, that arc felt overshadowed by his relationships and later storylines, including the councilman and Tiff subplot. Whether people liked those stories isn’t really my point. It felt like the character stopped driving the story and started serving it.

The same thing happened across the board. Some relationships felt more symbolic than organic. Some female empowerment arcs felt like they relied on diminishing the men around them instead of simply writing stronger women. Kevin, Jake, and Papa originally felt like three believable kids growing up in the same environment from different perspectives. By the end, and eventually with Bakari, they often felt more like vehicles for whatever issue or shocking moment the episode wanted to explore than kids naturally growing into adults.

The world itself also shrank. Chicago stopped feeling like Chicago. Everyone somehow stayed connected, almost like the show became more loyal to keeping familiar actors around than letting characters naturally leave each other’s orbit. Then Smokey’s became the center of everything. Business, politics, redemption, relationships, community meetings, conflict. It started feeling like every storyline had to pass through the same restaurant.

Then there were the stakes. Whatever anyone thinks about policing in real life, from a storytelling standpoint, when murders, shootings, and major crimes rarely lead to meaningful investigations or consequences, the world loses its internal logic. Once that happens, it’s hard to stay invested because actions stop carrying weight.

Ironically, I don’t think the show’s biggest problem is any one theme. Representation, empowerment, politics, policing, none of those are inherently bad subjects. The early seasons proved they could be woven into a compelling story.

The shift happened when the themes started feeling more important than the narrative payoff. If the point a show is trying to make becomes more important than telling the best possible story, you don’t just weaken the story. You weaken the point too. The strongest messages are the ones audiences discover through believable characters and earned consequences, not because the narrative keeps pointing them in one direction.

For me, that’s what changed. I never stopped believing in the cast. I just stopped believing in the world they were living in. That’s a shame, because the early seasons were some of the best television Showtime put out.

Bro really just chillin selling clothes lol