Rotten Tomatoes’ Jacqueline Coley talked The Chi with star Jacob Latimore, who plays Emmett Washington, and executive producers Lena Waithe and Common, who also appears as Rafiq in the Showtime series, at South by Southwest 2018 in Austin, Texas. Season 1 of the series, a coming-of-age ensemble drama set in the South Side of Chicago, is now Certified Fresh.