Director: Sanjay Shah
Nearly two decades after its live-action predecessor ended, Chris Rock's childhood returns in a different medium entirely: hand-drawn, loose, and unafraid to exaggerate for a laugh.
What is Everybody Still Hates Chris about?
Set once again in 1980s Brooklyn, the series follows a teenage version of Chris navigating a household run on tight budgets and tighter discipline, a school where he's usually the only Black kid in the room, and a neighborhood that shapes him whether he likes it or not. The animated format frees the show to push its jokes further than the original sitcom could, stretching exaggerated flashbacks, visual gags, and musical interludes into the fabric of everyday scenes: a strict father's warnings, a mother's schemes to stretch every dollar, sibling rivalries that spill into chaos. Rather than simply repeating the original's setups, the series treats the animated form as a chance to revisit familiar terrain with a wider range of tone, from broad comedy to quieter moments of growing up.
Cast & crew
Chris Rock returns as narrator and creative force behind his own fictionalized adolescence, with Terry Crews and Tichina Arnold voicing his parents. Sanjay Shah, who worked on the original live-action series, directs and helps carry its sensibility into animation.
Context & significance
Everybody Still Hates Chris continues the story first told in Everybody Hates Chris, the 2005 sitcom loosely based on Rock's own upbringing. Reviving it as animation lets the creative team lean harder into stylized humor and musical numbers than a traditional multi-camera sitcom format would allow.
Where & how to watch
The series streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving Farsi-speaking households an easy way to follow both the new episodes and the sitcom's original run. A free K-Time login is all that's required to watch.