“The Chi to me is a family,” says Lena Waithe, creator and executive producer of the Showtime series set in Chicago’s South Side. “It’s about a family, about a community, and the thing that I always press us to do things that other shows may be afraid to do and to talk about things that other shows may not really want to tackle.”Joined by Chi showrunner Justin Hillian, the Emmy-winning Waite was on board for Deadline’s Contenders Television awards-season event to discuss the series, which wrapped its third season in August and is back for a fourth season this year beginning May 23.“We just want to be as honest as possible and just always looking at that nothing is really black or white,” Hillian said of the third season, which brought the
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