Donald Glover's FX dramedy ATLANTA

I got kind of a Candide vibe where Bibby was constantly explaining that everything was going fine

lol

that was a good episode but man was it stressful to watch! I guess we learn something about the kind of guy Alfred is beneath the posturing because I was shocked he didn't put Bibby up against the wall about a dozen different times before he actually did.

it's illuminating to see the near infinite level of patience people have to attempt in order to cope with the mundanities of everyday life, especially when you know them in a different context and they're _not_

like thinking one of your coworkers is kind of quick to judge things, and then finding out they have to run eight errands after work, have two sick kids, and their wife can't find a job but none of that seems to provoke a strong reaction

this show is really great. find it hard to binge which is a relief, each episode is so self-contained it's easy to take yr time with it

The real genius of that episode was in taking the played out barber/client dynamic and mining its absurdity by taking it out of the actual shop.

Plays on that bubbling anxiety you feel off of shit you wouldn't tolerate in any other professional environment, cause until you get a good cut you're completely at his mercy.

your barber has multiple side-hustles and is never shy about trying to put you on
your barbers personal life often plays out in real time as he cuts your hair
your barber will waste the fuck out of your time
your barber is always on the fucking phone
All of this is better than the alternative of sitting in some strange chair with a more reliable guy who doesn't understand your hairline.

From the nose, the height, the head shape and hunched shoulders did nobody else immediately realise that Teddy Perkins was Donald Glover?

I was pretty sure, but was open to there being a twist in the plot

Barber episode is easy to relate to. It’s like any experience with a dealer

From the nose, the height, the head shape and hunched shoulders did nobody else immediately realise that Teddy Perkins was Donald Glover?

There were a couple of times when I thought "I wonder" but tbh I was so caught up in the episode itself I didn't spend a lot of time thinking about it.

It was a lot more apparent on a second viewing with the knowledge it was Glover.

I could tell by his voice that it was Donald Glover (he uses a similar voice in Community when he is getting freaked out by something), also... Earn wasn't in any scenes with him. not that they couldn't do that

the best part was the assumption that the whole wheelchair guy bit was a hokey ploy, until.. the twist!

and if the epic piano man episode wasn't enough, the woods...

big ol' black boi deer guts...

https://i1.wp.com/urbanbellemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Atlanta-Season-2-Episode-8-Recap-Woods.jpg

freaked me out.

the guy in the woods wasn’t his father but he kind of worries it is! and it doesn’t matter because all metaphorical journeys end

anyone else notice how Teddy had a similar voice to John Merrick from Elephant Man?

man that ostrich egg in the piano man ep was brutal, I'm still reeling from it. But what an ep!

Man I found that totally forced

As trish Keenan once said “little bit of weirdness for weirdness sake”

It made me feel seriously queasy, not had a boiled egg since.

lol fair point

Gozu had a similar effect on me with milk, dairy products horror is some scary shit.

Where did Trish Keenan say that?

Wire invisible jukebox - believe she was talking about LOOP

The Teddy Perkins episode was more rewarding to watch than the entire third season of Twin Peaks

― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, April 10, 2018 1:16 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

maybe excepting ep 8 of s3 actually but the pt still stands

I know the episodes run long, but god damn was there a lot going on there

felt so sympathetic toward Earn up until halfway through the last scene, then he got pretty much wedgied and I cracked up

I tweeted this but the last 2 episodes really remind me of Afterhours

i love how georgia centric this show is. he really nails the absurdity of the place.

you can tell he loves it and hates it at the same time which is a shared feeling

I’m not sure if some of the things I’m getting out of my viewing is in the story or if I’m projecting

it really seems to capture how grueling it is just to live, and how doing the things you’re supposed to do to play a role doesn’t mean anything will work out

Earn thinking he really needed to fight it out was so awkward

Yeah Earn is really on a bad trajectory :(

how could @atlantafx cut such an iconic scene pic.twitter.com/it9tiSY24d

— 🌊 (@mattwhitlockPM) April 30, 2018

oh man that is great

OMG I love this show

Easily best thing on tv

End of papi made me super sad

for us by us

Easily best thing on tv

by miles

when I was in high school I had a joke about starting a company called Fujbuj, pronounced fudge-budge, meaning For Us Jews, By Us Jews. I thought that was pretty funny.

a bit high-handed maybe, but another brilliant episode.

Donald Glover had a hell of weekend.

Chances of a third season?

Imagine a lot of the people involved are going to be pretty busy

it really felt like a series wrap-up episode

Looooollll the haircut episode - "He's a magician."

this show was so so great

https://tvline.com/2019/08/06/atlanta-season-4-renewed-fx/
going into production on both seasons early next year

That link is from a year ago, but I clicked through to this
https://tvline.com/2020/09/09/atlanta-season-3-premiere-date-delay-not-january-2021/

oh, i got to there from this link actually:
https://www.timeout.com/news/two-more-seasons-of-atlanta-are-on-the-way-091120

Just started, two episodes in. Should be able to get through it in a couple of weeks.

the price is on the can tho

I'm down to the last few episodes. Really good, and quite unusual. The weirdest show I've ever watched from start to finish is Mr. Robot, which ended up spinning off into a dozen incomprehensible directions; Atlanta is weird precisely because it's so low-key and not weird. I'm so used to heavily plotted shows like Mad Men and The Sopranos, where running storylines unfold over multiple episodes. I could be wrong, but I think Earn getting the cheque for the dog a few episodes after they dropped it off might have been the first call-back to a previous episode. And I don't think I've ever seen a season-ending scene as low-key as S1's (I honestly thought at first, with the prominence of streetlights, that it was going to be an extended homage to Antonioni's L'Eclisse). Probably my two least favourite episodes have been the most self-consciously weird: the PBS talk show (I was faked out by the commercials, though) and the reclusive songwriter in the decrepit mansion. All four principles are excellent--I think Darius is my favourite. A lot of great music that almost always leaves me wanting more, although the way snippets are weaved in and out is basically perfect. (None of the hip-hop is familiar to me, which doesn't mean it's obscure; I just don't keep up.) My favourite music moment of all was Sam Cooke to end the one episode--came right out of the blue.

So many quotable lines. I'll go with one from the Drake episode, which is where I left off earlier today.

Vanessa's friend: "Can you help me stop thinking?"
Darius: (pause) "Perhaps."