45 minSeason 1 • Episode 8
LatestA heart-in-your-throat drama, Red Line begins with the mistaken shooting of a black doctor at the hands of a white cop and unfolds from the perspective of each of the families connected to the tragedy. It's a then-and-now meets us-and-them tale about the often-personal politics of crime.
Acting
Emayatzy Corinealdi's rage will haunt you for days.
Writing
Three perspectives, zero easy villains, infinite moral knots.
Direction
Chicago becomes a character—the divided city, the connecting wound.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Caitlin Parrish and Erica Weiss are longtime Chicago theater collaborators who specifically developed this for broadcast network television to force uncomfortable conversations into living rooms that avoid cable prestige.
The title references Chicago's actual Red Line train—the physical divider between the city's segregated neighborhoods that characters literally cross and cannot escape. The show was cancelled after one season, reportedly because audiences found it 'too depressing' for network TV.
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