SOUTH SIDE
Recently I’ve been making my way through the hilarious SOUTH SIDE (trailer here), a sitcom on HBO Max. Created by Bashir Salahuddin and Diallo Riddle, the series follows friends Simon (Sultan Salahuddin) and Kareme (Kareme Young) as they scheme to make enough money to leave their jobs at a rent-to-own shop. The show plays like a workplace comedy but much of the action takes place in the neighborhoods of the South Side of Chicago, where Simon and Kareme interact with the city’s locals as they reclaim rented equipment and pull off their own side hustles. Like most great sitcoms, SOUTH SIDE excels in building out a distinct world filled with a diverse cast of unique minor characters. Here, those role players bring mayhem and absurdity to this kooky depiction of the Chicago into which Simon and Kareme descend.
—Nolan Russell, Executive Assistant
Short Film
