{"id":1825710,"date":"2023-01-27T07:20:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T12:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1825710"},"modified":"2023-01-27T07:22:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T12:22:01","slug":"hbos-south-side-is-a-comedic-reflection-on-the-razing-of-chicagos-black-neighborhoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hbos-south-side-is-a-comedic-reflection-on-the-razing-of-chicagos-black-neighborhoods\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO\u2019s \u2018South Side\u2019 Is A Comedic Reflection On The Razing Of Chicago\u2019s Black Neighborhoods"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhbos-south-side-is-a-comedic-reflection-on-the-razing-of-chicagos-black-neighborhoods%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1825710&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Numerous TV shows have been set up in Chicago. Its big-shoulders reputation combined with the cultural panache which earns it the title of Capital of the Midwest makes it attractive to Hollywood writers. It&#8217;s not a show that does it right. <\/p>\n<p>Absolutely not \u201cJoanie Loves Chachi,\u201d It may be a close call for \u201cThe Bob Newhart Show,\u201d and let\u2019s call it almost there for that recent critics\u2019 darling, the au jus-spattered, frenetic, and heartfelt \u201cThe Bear.\u201d Even that last one, though, doesn\u2019t feel homegrown. Although the shots show this area, or the Sears Tower, it doesn&#8217;t feel like home. If it weren\u2019t about an Italian beef joint, it could be anywhere. It can be clearly identified as being made by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/tv\/a40681092\/the-bear-creator-christopher-storer-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suburbanite<\/a>Not a Chicagoan. <\/p>\n<p>For this expat West-sider, it\u2019s clear that HBO\u2019s comedy \u201cSouth Side,\u201d is by South-siders, about South-siders, and for \u2014 well, anybody who likes a joint that\u2019s hilarious, self-aware but not self-conscious, topical without being preachy, and as grounded in a real place as ever a show I\u2019ve seen. Even better is the unstated undercurrent that the place\u2019s potential was ground down under statist central planning decades ago and has yet to recover.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSouth Side,\u201d The Chicago Comedy Festival just wrapped its third season. It exemplifies how Chicago is all about hustle. It doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re a cop wearing braids, a lazy repo man, a guy selling sno-cones on the corner, or an alderman in suits just a little too shiny to be tasteful. It\u2019s Chicago, and you do what you gotta do. You can\u2019t expect anybody to help unless they get something back. <\/p>\n<p>The two repo man main characters, the studiously unglamorous Simon James (Sultan Salahuddin) and Kareme Odom (Kareme Young), made their way through community college only to have to scrape by taking every piece of furniture from a family\u2019s home. And when that family didn\u2019t keep up on the payments to Kareme\u2019s brother, Quincy (Quincy Young, his real-life twin), of course they\u2019re going to get up to some nonsense like selling black-market Viagra just to get a little more ahead. And it\u2019s damned funny when things don\u2019t work out for them, like they never do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSouth Side\u201d Bashir Salahuddin (who plays the sad Officer Goodnight) and Diallo Riddle, a Harvard theater friend, came up with the idea for the show. Salahuddin is a South Sider and his wife Chandra Russell plays the role of the unpredictable Sgt. Turner, who\u2019d much rather be going to Lollapalooza than tracking down a killer; his brother, Sultan, is our sorta-hero, Simon; and their sister, Zuri, plays another, probably smarter, employee at the Rent-T-Own store. <\/p>\n<p>When Sultan Salahuddin\u2019s official Comedy Central bio notes that he spent his childhood \u201cbuying Now and Laters from the candy lady,\u201d you believe it. Didn\u2019t we all do the same? The sno cone man said, \u201cWe finna make this happen,\u201d This is how you get people talking about the syrups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;South Side&#8217; is a self-aware but not self-conscious take on joy as an act of defiance in Chicago&#8217;s historically black neighborhoods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1677,"featured_media":1825713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[4212,15831,8999,9723,16664,16663,16662,6099,3960],"class_list":["post-1825710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-black","tag-chicagos","tag-comedic","tag-hbos","tag-neighborhoods","tag-razing","tag-reflection","tag-side","tag-south"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1825713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}