Donald Glover's FX dramedy ATLANTA

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."

thanks clemenza, i enjoyed reading that

agreed, such a good show

and the soundtrack is the fifth principal actor of course

This is one of those shows that I keep meaning to watch. Maybe this spring.

Finished up last night. "The Woods" made me think that there's a new rule on TV that every show must have an episode where a main character or two gets lost in the woods or the desert (there has to be five or six examples now going back to The Sopranos' "Pine Barrens"; weirdest might be Mr. Robot's). The episode at the college was really good--reminded me of Spinal Tap, of all things, and I felt bad for Earn when Al hinted that he'd had enough (because basically Al was right). I picked up quickly that "FUBU" was a flashback because of the Tracy Chapman song (the time-stamp of a FUBU shirt was lost on me), but I initially thought the kid, who had kind of a roly-poly face, was Al, not Earn; sad episode. And another great low-key season-ending scene, which I had to double-check online to make sure I understood correctly what happened and what it meant--I did. I hope Vanessa's minimal presence in the last two or three episodes is temporary. Really looking forward to S3. Meantime, I will embark on the completist-driven task of collecting all the songs and burning a mix-CD or two (or three).

to see this show is to love it, is how i break it down to an extent

i have really mixed feelings about Glover overall but this is a flat out masterpiece

agree with clemenza (great posts) that the teddy perkins ep. which people freaked out about was one of the weaker episodes

the college trip episode is so good

this deleted scene from that ep. where they dance to "creep" by TLC is so cute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYWkfMg-AvQ

love this show so much i almost am jealous of people who get to watch it for first time

Man, I've never seen that deleted scene! Thank you for that!