Kaeden Carter

While true to the culinary world it's not true to the city of Chicago. None of these characters have ever really road on a CTA "L" train in their lives. The ideal that people from the South Side are inherently more working class is ridiculous and that automatically being from the South Side makes you a White Sox fan. I'm born and raised in the South Side of Chicago and I hate the Soxs and the I loved the Cubs. I've met many people from the South Side that feel the same. I've only lived one year on the North Side. But, you can tell the care put into getting theses actors into looking like well trained chiefs and cooks. That part is impressive. However, not an accurate portrayal of Chicago's River North at all. There's nothing gritty about River North and no one from there would be shocked by risotto or tomato topping on hot dogs. The show would've been more believable being set in Uptown or maybe in Austin. However, the edgy "Chicago gray" cinematography, and the charisma of Jeremy Allen White was good enough to keep me watching until the end. The only thing for me is that Ebon Moss-Bachrach's character is so unlikeable in the beginning that the small redemption arc his character goes through isn't enough to make me feel any sympathetic or relate to his character. The side characters: Tina, Marcus, and Ebraheim are a bright spot for the show. And I cringe every time they said, "Cousin". I don't know if they were trying to imitate commonly used endearments like "cuz" or "cuzo" but it doesn't come of as endearing just annoying.