Everybody Hates Chris (2005)
Get ready to ROCK
Chris is a teenager growing up as the eldest of three children in Brooklyn, New York during the early 1980s. Uprooted to a new neighborhood and bused to a predominantly white middle school two-hours away by his strict, hard-working parents, Chris struggles to find his place while keeping his siblings in line at home and surmounting the challenges of junior high.
| Type | TV series |
|---|---|
| First aired | 22 September 2005 |
| Status | Ended, last episode 8 May 2009 |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Created by | Chris Rock and Ali LeRoi |
| Starring | Tyler James Williams, Tichina Arnold and Terry Crews |
| Seasons | 4 seasons, 88 episodes |
| Episode length | about 21 min |
| Time to watch it all | about 31 hours |
| Rated | TV-PG |
| Scores | TMDB users 8.1/10 |
Where to watch Everybody Hates Chris
Everybody Hates Chris is streaming on Prime Video ($8.99 a month) in the US. It is also on Hulu ($18.99 a month), Paramount+ ($13.99 a month) and Tubi. At ten hours a week, all of the series takes about 1 month of Prime Video, or $8.99 at list price.
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Where to watch Everybody Hates Chris in 29 other countries
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|---|---|
| Antigua & Barbuda | Netflix, Prime Video |
| Argentina | Netflix $14999 ARS, Prime Video $5199 ARS, Paramount+ |
| Bahamas | Prime Video |
| Barbados | Netflix, Prime Video |
| Belize | Netflix, Prime Video |
| Bermuda | Prime Video |
| Bolivia | Netflix, Prime Video, Paramount+ |
| Brazil | Netflix R$44.90, Prime Video R$19.90, Paramount+, Globoplay R$24.90 |
| Chile | Netflix $9990 CLP, Prime Video $6490 CLP, Paramount+, Clarovideo |
| Colombia | Netflix $29900 COP, Prime Video $24900 COP, Paramount+ |
| Costa Rica | Netflix, Prime Video, Paramount+ |
| Dominican Republic | Netflix, Prime Video, Paramount+ |
| Ecuador | Netflix $7.99, Prime Video $5.99, Paramount+ |
| El Salvador | Netflix, Prime Video, Paramount+ |
| French Guiana | Prime Video |
| Guatemala | Netflix, Prime Video, Paramount+ |
| Guyana | Prime Video |
| Honduras | Netflix, Prime Video, Paramount+ |
| Jamaica | Netflix, Prime Video |
| Mexico | Netflix $249 MXN, Prime Video $99 MXN, Paramount+ |
| Nicaragua | Netflix, Prime Video, Paramount+ |
| Panama | Netflix $12.99, Prime Video $5.99, Paramount+ |
| Paraguay | Netflix, Prime Video, Paramount+ |
| Peru | Netflix S/40.90, Prime Video S/25.90, Paramount+ |
| St. Lucia | Netflix, Prime Video |
| Trinidad & Tobago | Netflix, Prime Video |
| Turks & Caicos Islands | Netflix, Prime Video |
| Uruguay | Netflix $U449, Prime Video $U249, Paramount+ |
| Venezuela | Netflix, Prime Video, Paramount+ |
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What kind of watch this is
Everybody Hates Chris is a 2005 family sitcom built on Chris Rock’s memory of his early 1980s life in Brooklyn. It anchors the story in the friction between a strict, working-class home and a predominantly white junior high across town. The real Rock provides the voice, narrating the scenes with a dry, adult perspective that contextualizes the teenage chaos. This dual lens gives the show its specific texture: the warmth of a tight-knit family fighting for stability against a neighborhood that offers little of it. The series spans 4 seasons and 88 episodes. The total viewing time is 31 hours, a manageable block for a show that finds comedy in the gap between expectation and reality.
How it did with audiences
There is no box office figure to parse, so the numbers stay quiet. On TMDB, users rate it 8.1 out of 10. That is a solid score, though not the kind that sparks a bidding war. It suggests viewers liked the premise enough to finish it, even if they did not rush to the theater. The show lived in the living room, where the only metric that matters is whether you stayed for the next episode.
What came next for the cast
Terry Crews arrived with the muscle of Starsky & Hutch and White Chicks, then spent a decade in action franchises like The Expendables. Tichina Arnold was already a face from Big Momma's House before this, and later found steady work in comedies like Wild Hogs. The timeline suggests a shift in genre gravity for both. Credits list the jobs, not the cause.
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Sources
- Everybody Hates Chris on TMDB — synopsis, cast, ratings and recommendations
- Wikidata Q33323 — review scores, box office and awards (CC0)
- “Everybody Hates Chris” on Wikipedia, by its contributors (history) — reception, audience figures and legacy, summarised and adapted here under CC BY-SA 4.0
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