Donald Glover's FX dramedy ATLANTA

Thought the weirdness of S6 was funnier than S5, especially the very last scene where Darius responds to Paper Boi and Some Guy Named Doug's recording.

maybe thirty minoots

lost it completely at that bit

I was never more fucked up by any scene than by the one just preceding that thirty minoots line. The only comparison I can think of is the nightmare sequence in Mulholland Drive, but this one was tied to much deeper feelings. I can't believe someone put THAT on screen. Easily the greatest show of all time, like it's not even close.

I’m definitely going to think “don’t worry, I’m still in the tank” a few times this week

What a way to go out.

This is so weird so often, E7 (camping) was strange in how decidedly un-weird it was. I liked it; thought they controlled the tone really well. Thinking about E8...Deadpan-perfect, just a lot to process.

E7 felt like the quiet, rewarding end of Earn and Van's plot arc and I appreciated that

Maybe the whole series was Darius retelling the events of the last few years, while having a very tenuous grasp on what happened during tank time and what was real

I haven't kept up with this thread because we hadn't seen S3 yet, let alone S4. But we just jumped back in and started S3, and we were immediately reminded, boy, is this show good (and weird). Can't wait to hit S4.

yeah i’m way behind in early s3

looking forward to whats in store

As I watched E7--and always anticipating the weird turn--I was thinking "Get Out...no, wait; Deliverance...no wait..."

The tension is so thick in that one, both because of how it’s directed and what this show has trained us to anticipate.

you might say the episode was a metaphorical snipe hunt

🥁

E9: bucolic, like E7, but with the scary stuff left in. Broke one of my cardinal soundtracking rules early on with the Geto Boys--used a great song only to cut it off almost immediately (they could have had Alfred wander around aimlessly for two minutes while it played, I'd have been happy)--but made up for it with "Under Me Sleng Teng" (great! new to me) and Ray Charles.

Omg the mall scene - ep 6 so full of moments
Love this show so much!!!

Just started watching with my daughter (21). We just finished Wayne, which she now says is her favourite show ever. We watched S1E1 & 2 and she’s spellbound. I’ve only seen season 1 & 2 myself so I’m stoked to do the whole journey.

We just finished season 3. I know other seasons have leaned into horror here and there, but this entire season was written and directed like a horror anthology.

Tbh that’s why I haven’t gotten past the first 2 episodes of s3.

yeah there is a noticeable "throw every idea i have ever had into the bag" feeling to this show in general but i tend to appreciate that -- the impulse to seize the day and make the stuff you wanna make before someone takes the opportunity away from you is real

otm. Season 4 has some of this still but it calms down. Worth finishing.

s3 was in the tank

these backhoes aint loyal

Lol

i knew donald glover was overseeing a remake of mr & mrs smith (which seems completely unnecessary ..)

but had no idea he was also involved in a slasher/comedy show about obsessive music fans referred to as the swarm (uh, beyhive) and its coming out in march???

just saw trailer for it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OggFj5z2SLg

I'm only at the end of s3 right now but did no-one itt talk about the Cancel Club cameo?! This show has gotten more wtf. I kind of like it but also feel like maybe I'm not 'getting' everything.

I finally finished the show last week. Give Glover all the money.

Atlanta writer Stefani Robinson creating a remake of Peep Show, or at least using the Peep Show format (with approval of Mitchell and Webb), but with two american women.

Easily the greatest show of all time, like it's not even close.

― gospodin simmel, Friday, November 11, 2022 1:46 PM

marathoned everything (which was all rewatch except for the last season) to coincide with the finale last year and i had a similar reaction after the last ep.

i've kind of kept quiet ever since, but honestly: gospodin otm. such a perfectly fluid execution of comedy and commentary, seriousness and surrealism.

you know a show is good when you try to think of a single favorite episode and all of your candidates are spread evenly across the show's lifespan.

Atlanta writer Stefani Robinson creating a remake of Peep Show, or at least using the Peep Show format (with approval of Mitchell and Webb), but with two american women.

― dan selzer, Wednesday, March 8, 2023 6:45 AM

this sounds amazing lol!

I just finished it too, actually. So many purgatorial spaces.

Almost everyone I know was put off by the last two seasons but idk, I really liked it and was happy to roll with everything.

My wife likes the stuff centered around the core cast *least* and loves all the stand-alone and solo episodes.

The last two seasons, I guess I let the show be whatever it wanted to be--definitely not liking every episode, but admiring (most of) its weirdness along the way--but the real highlights were in the first two seasons for me. Right to the end, my favourite moment remained the end of the Drake episode, something I quoted earlier in the thread:

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

as someone who grew up maybe 10 miles from Glover with only a 4 year age difference i have to say he did a really good job of representing Atlanta. esp the Helen episode and the ep that i assume took place at georgia southern university for a wider look at the state. so many scenes in the inner burbs where everything's green and lush, tons of trees. the industrial areas surrounded by forest. made me miss the place

Atlanta writer Stefani Robinson creating a remake of Peep Show, or at least using the Peep Show format (with approval of Mitchell and Webb), but with two american women.

Are you an AI generating stuff that it seems like I might like but in reality is likely to make no sense? :)
There have been a few US versions of Peep Show iirc, the one I saw sucked badly.
I'd give it a chance...

https://www.google.com/search?q=stefani+robinson+peep+show&rlz=1C5GCEM_enUS1019US1020&oq=stefa&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j46i39j69i57j46i433i512j0i131i433l2j69i60j69i65.1084j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

I loved the spite episode so much. any over-elaborate plan like that - was trying to think what other series had done something in the same ball park then realised I was probably thinking of that episode of WWDITS...

Loved seasons 1+2 but never picked it back up when season 3 came out, so I am very late to the party, with that said: I need an 8,000 word oral history about how the hell the season 3 premiere got made and aired. Possibly also a "Clipped"-style BtS drama.

Just saw Stephen Glover wrote Guava Island and House Party. These worth watching? His work on Atlanta is pretty amazing.

When Darius and Van are thrifting in Amsterdam together, they leave the thrift store and Darius randomly does a little dance and sings "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor" == everything I love about this show

❤️

Love this show. I’m determined to rewatch the whole thing this year