South Side

About South Side

Two recent community-college graduates get stuck working at Rent-T-Own in the Chicago neighborhood of Englewood and work to achieve their entrepreneurial dreams.

South Side is a comedy series created by Bashir Salahuddin and Diallo Riddle that ran on Comedy Central and HBO Max. It ran for 3 seasons and 28 episodes between July 2019 and December 2022.

The series is filed under law enforcement, urban comedy, sitcom, and workplace comedy. Sultan Salahuddin leads the cast as Simon James, Kareme Young as Kareme 'K' Odom, Bashir Salahuddin as Officer Goodnight, and Diallo Riddle as Allen Gayle.

Produced by Jax Media. It streams on HBO Max and HBO Max Amazon Channel in the United States.

Superior Donuts, The Office, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine make useful companions to South Side. It carries a TV-MA rating.