Should you watch Everybody Hates Chris?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Everybody Hates Chris
Series · 2005
Chris is a teenager growing up as the eldest of three children in Brooklyn, New York during the early 1980s. Uprooted to a new neighborhood and bused to a predominantly white middle school two-hours away by his strict, hard-working parents, Chris struggles to find his place while keeping his siblings in line at home and surmounting the challenges of junior high.
The sides of Everybody Hates Chris
- A boy growing up in 1980s Brooklyn
- Strict parents counting every penny
- A school two buses away where he's the only Black kid
Everybody Hates Chris is good for you if…
- you like Chris Rock narrating his own childhood.
- you like a mother who threatens and a father who knows the price of everything.
- you like junior high told with honesty and jokes.
Everybody Hates Chris is bad for you if…
- four seasons of sitcom is too much for you.
- you can't laugh at racism, and much of the humor comes from Chris being the only Black kid at Corleone.
About: race · family · growing up
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