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His younger brother, Drew (Ozioma Akagha), is effortlessly cool, handsome, and popular—the golden child Chris can never compete with. His little sister, Tonya (Terrence Little Gardenhigh), remains a chaotic agent of mischief, capable of destroying Chris’s life with a single, well-timed lie to their mother. And then there’s Greg (Gunnar Sizemore), the nerdy, neurotic best friend whose obsessive love for sci-fi and fear of everything provides the perfect foil to Chris’s reluctant heroism.
An episode about a racist shop teacher who assumes Chris stole a calculator is handled with brutal, satirical efficiency. Adult Chris’s narration cuts in: “In the 80s, if you were a Black kid in a mostly white space, you didn’t have to steal anything to get in trouble. You just had to exist.” The scene then cuts to a surreal courtroom where the prosecution is a jury of calculators. It’s absurd, but the point lands. Everybody Still Hates Chris - Season 1
is a standout. The animation shines as Chris navigates a new, slightly more integrated school. The hallways are drawn as a chaotic jungle, with lockers as territorial watering holes. When Caruso shoves Chris into a trash can, the show does a slow-motion, dramatic recreation of a war movie death scene, complete with sad violin music and Chris’s voiceover: “Every time I died in school, I got resurrected just in time for third period.” His younger brother, Drew (Ozioma Akagha), is effortlessly
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