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‘South Side’ review: Season 3 is as funny and resolutely Chicago as ever

The Tribune’s William Lee and Nina Metz previously reviewed Season 1 and Season 2 of “South Side,” an absurdist comedy about working stiffs on Chicago’s South Side. We’re back for its third season, premiering Thursday on HBO Max.

Chicago Tribune

‘South Side’ ups the Chicago ante for a bold season three

With new episodes of the locally made comedy set to arrive Dec. 8 on HBO Max, co-creator Bashir Salahuddin says, “We’re really pushing the boundaries in the writer’s room this season.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Leftover food from set of HBO’s ‘South Side’ goes to needy; city hopes it catches on with other productions

The show’s creator, Diallo Riddle, was on board from the start. “The second I heard about it I was like ‘Hell yes! Let’s not waste anything. This is a no-brainer.”

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3rd season of ‘South Side’ will have Chance the Rapper, Lollapalooza and a scene with Lower Wacker’s auto pound as Mordor

CHICAGO — On the waning summer days of filming for the new season of the hit HBO Max comedy “South Side,” the Near West Side television set felt a lot like a lovefest.

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What’s fall got to do with the fall TV season

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Bears detail Arlington Heights plans, new COVID boosters arrive and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

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‘South Side’ to take a trip down to the Lower Wacker auto pound

HBO Max series’ upcoming third season will bring characters to the ominous underground facility that a show producer calls ‘kind of hauntingly beautiful.’

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Fall TV: Our top 15 list of what’s coming, including a surprising number of new legal dramas

The fall TV season is upon us, and if that doesn’t have the same frisson of excitement as it once did — back when the summer was a wasteland of reruns rather than proliferating with new streaming series each week, well … who’s complaining? One small trend to emerge: After…

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My worst moment: ‘Top Gun’ co-star and ‘South Side’ creator Bashir Salahuddin on having a show canceled before it even aired. Twice

CHICAGO — In “Top Gun: Maverick” starring Tom Cruise back in the cockpit as a fighter pilot, Bashir Salahuddin plays a chief warrant officer named Hondo. “In layman’s terms, he’s a super expert in multiple fields,” Salahuddin said. “And he’s kind of Mav’s right-hand man — he’s the guy who,…

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