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After what felt like too long of a hiatus The Chi<\/i> has returned to Showtime and does not fail to disappoint. \u00a0With unexpected twists and turns and the deepening of relationships between our favorite characters, The Chi<\/i> reminds of us why we fell in love with the brainchild of the phenomenal Lena Waithe. \u00a0Despite being halfway into the season we are still unsure where Emmett, Kev, Brandon, and the others we have become fond of will land, taking us through a sometimes scary but always exciting journey. \u00a0One of the most rewarding aspects of the season thus far is watching the personal and professional growth of our protagonists and the strengthening of bonds between seemingly superficial acquaintances. True to form, it also presents external and internal questions that challenge our sense of right, wrong, forgiveness and redemption. \u00a0Here are some of what I find to be the most dynamic questions being explored.<\/strong><\/p>\n Last season, we witnessed the contrast in personalities and ideologies between the couple mainly through watching Jerika\u2019s interaction with Brandon\u2019s family. \u00a0This time around, we see a blazer adorned Brandon uncomfortably navigating his strenuous relationship with Jerrika\u2019s upper middle-class family and their friends at an outdoor fundraiser. \u00a0It is evident that they do not approve of him as their daughter\u2019s boyfriend. However, when Brandon steps in to help his friend who is catering the event, Jerrika, concerned with the optics in regard to her budding realty career, asks him to not look like \u201cthe help.\u201d \u00a0He is constantly asked to endure judgment and classist micro-aggressions from her friends. One can\u2019t help but wonder if over time these concessions will multiply to the point where they will cause a permanent rift between the young couple.<\/strong><\/p>\n After confessing to the murder of Coogie, Ronnie, manages to secure a lawyer referred to as The Wolf who wiggles him out of rightful murder charges. \u00a0Ronnie, who turned himself in for his crime, ready to pay the price, changes his tune once he hears about the brutal beating of his grandmother that put her in the ICU. \u00a0Due to technicalities, Ronnie is set free and the charges are dropped but that doesn\u2019t stop the piercing stares of judgement and disgust from members of the neighborhood. \u00a0One mother, who knows the pain of losing a child to gun violence, spits in his face. Ronnie is taken under the wing of Common, seemingly the head of a local mosque. We learn that he too has killed a child and has found forgiveness from the community through transforming himself and his life and being of service to others. \u00a0But can we as viewers, who not only know he killed a child, but bore witness to the murder, forgive him? Does forgiveness stop at child murder? Are we now unable to forgive him because he is no longer paying the consequences for his actions? Does the fact that he pushed to get out of jail to take care of his brutally beaten grandmother make it easier to forgive?\u00a0 Is the newfound information about him being the lovechild of the surly man across the street make us more sympathetic towards him?<\/strong><\/p>\n After being fired from her nursing job for stealing supplies to help Ronnie on behalf of her patient Ms. Ethel, Jada is forced to downsize. \u00a0In doing so, she attempts to teach her promiscuous son, Emmett, a lesson. Thus, Emmett lands at his estranged father\u2019s house sleeping on the couch amongst his many other children and enduring his strict rules. He eventually ends up sleeping in Brandon\u2019s food truck, where he has secured employment. \u00a0Not only that, he is forced to face his responsibilities as he is confronted by his baby mothers who demand that he be a better father and do more. It appears that Jada\u2019s tough love is pushing Emmett to become more mature; the question is, will it last? \u00a0Will Emmett succumb to his usual playboy ways or will he continue to grow into his admirable hustler identity?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After what felt like too long of a hiatus The Chi has returned to Showtime and does not fail to disappoint. \u00a0With unexpected twists and turns and the deepening of relationships between our favorite characters, The Chi reminds of us why we fell in love with the brainchild of the phenomenal Lena Waithe. \u00a0Despite being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[31,38,93,51],"class_list":["post-4027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-tv","tag-featured","tag-lena-waithe","tag-the-chi","tag-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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