TV series
City So Real
2020 · 1 season
A sprawling, clear-eyed plunge into a city's political machinery that feels both intimate and overwhelming, rewarding patience with texture rather than easy answers.
- Created by
- Steve James
- Genres
- Documentary
- Overview
- Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Steve James’ fascinating and complex portrait of contemporary Chicago delivers a deep, multifaceted look into the soul of a quintessentially American city, set against the backdrop of its history-making 2019 mayoral election, and the tumultuous 2020 summer of COVID-19 and social upheaval following the police killing of George Floyd.
- How it feels
- Earnest, tense, melancholic and satirical. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Politics, power, corruption, race
- Content
- Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Created by
- Steve James
- Genres
- Documentary