S1:E1 Pilot
Original Air Date: Jan 7, 2018
A fateful event sends shockwaves through a community on the South Side of Chicago and connects the lives of Brandon, Ronnie, Emmett and Kevin in wholly unexpected ways. Series premiere.
Sneak Peek: Brandon's Eulogy for Coogie
S1:E1 Preview Scene (2:13)
"We start off riding through the city with Coogie (Jahking Guillory), a playful 16-year-old with a wild mane of hair, on a canary yellow bicycle with a banana seat... we see Chicago through his eyes. We’ve already seen in the news what the city is, at least on corners like this one. What it can be — the vibrant place of possibility that Coogie sees — gives The Chi its heart and its heartbreak."
READ MORE AT The New York Times
"The Chi performs an important service: It transforms the word 'Chicago' from something approaching an epithet into a three-dimensional place, a city in which a believable array of human beings live their lives and try to overcome the difficulties in their paths."
READ MORE AT Variety
Music from this episode
- All We Got (Coloring Book)
- Chance the Rapper
- Cake (ft. Talia Stewart)
- Taylor Bennett
- Roof Gone (Produced by CEO Beatz)
- Taylor Bennett
- Dreams Makin It Big
- Izzy ft. Deralph
- Shotgun
- R.L. Boyce
- Its A Reason feat. Moe Cheez
- Yung Tragic
- Brother where are you?
- Oscar Brown Jr.
- Smoked Clean
- Zion I
- Let the Horns Blow (feat. Homeboy Sandman)
- evitaN
- Nobody Speak (feat. Run The Jewels)
- DJ Shadow