One major change is that Chris' friend (and fellow social outcast), Greg (Vincent Martella) is attending a private school for the gifted, so he finds himself alone in the vast new school. But that's okay, because Greg keeps popping up after school, but oddly dressed as a hoodlum. Apparently being the only student from a public school has given him a false reputation that precedes him. But even this change doesn't take long to undo itself when his thuggish appearance eventually gets him kicked out and joining Chris' school.
But that's not all that's changed (and stayed the same) for Chris. His new homeroom teacher seems to be quite the bigot (but in a unique way that only Everybody Hates Chris pulls off), and his former Junior High racially-slanted teacher, Ms. Morello (Jacqueline Mazarella), is now his new principle. Chris also becomes the football team's manager/water boy, who as it turns out is coached by his homeroom teacher, Coach Thurman (Paul Ben-Victor). But at least his home life hasn't changed all that much.
Father Julius (Terry Crews) is still a penny-pinching, multi-job working head of house, while his mother (Tichina Arnold) has once again quite her job (avidly stating that her man has two jobs) and now manages the local beauty shop, and his siblings also continue the same roles established in the previous seasons. But all isn't completely the same in the neighborhood. Chris' girl-next-door wannabe girlfriend, Tasha (Paige Hurd), finally decides to give Chris a chance at being a couple while her mother, Peaches (Tisha Campbell), has gotten out of prison and has moved in with her daughter, much to the Rock family's chagrin, of course. Unfortunately, there are no cameos of Whoopi Goldberg in this season, who previously played Tasha's grandmother.
There are a lot of nice episodes that do everything from Chris getting his first car, getting dumped with a bag of weed and having to bake it into a lasagna in his Home Economics class, getting a fake ID to go to a Fat Boys concert and Chris taking part in both boxing and wrestling. But what is probably the most annoying was the series' finale, "Everybody Hates G.E.D." where Chris decides that the trip across city to school everyday, and his constant tardiness (which means he could have to repeat the grade), is just too much to handle and decides to drop out of school and take the G.E.D. I don't really want to give away how the series ends, but lets just say that, while not as annoying as the ending of The Sopranos, it comes damn close.
Special features include deleted scenes for most episodes as well as the Director Webisodes featuring specific scenes from the shows for each episode. But that isn't all, Everybody Hates Chris: The Final Season offers a wide range of featurettes for different aspects of this season, but nothing really interesting.
As a final season, only minor, long-running events like Chris and Tasha being together really get resolved, but the final episode seems to come out of nowhere, and while I can see that maybe the show was always meant to end this way, it is obvious that creators were hoping for a few more seasons before showing these final seasons. But if you've been following the past three seasons of the show, then you will want to check out how it all ends. On the other hand, if you've avoided the show so far, there isn't really any point in jumping in right here.
