Donald Glover's FX dramedy ATLANTA

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Was that the latest one with the ads?

Spottie, Sunday, 16 October 2016 23:09 (seven years ago) link

Yeah I thought that one was kinda weak. Just realizing Glover grew up like 15 minutes away from me in the Atlanta burbs

Heez, Monday, 17 October 2016 01:37 (seven years ago) link

Yeah, he's a Stone Mountain kid, right?

Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 17 October 2016 01:50 (seven years ago) link

The level of anti-trans bigotry in that last episode was a bit much. I mean, the guy who wanted to switch races was basically just a proxy for trans people right? I guess they figured that outright transphobic "humor" would be unacceptable but as long as they aired their bigoted views in the context of switching races it was ok. The rest of the humor in that episode was pretty weak too (except the cereal commercial).

viborg, Monday, 17 October 2016 04:24 (seven years ago) link

Yeah, he's a Stone Mountain kid, right?

yep, he wrote a plurality of the jokes about Kenneth coming from Stone Mountain on 30 Rock

Shakey δσς (sic), Monday, 17 October 2016 07:18 (seven years ago) link

I thought the episode was a bit queasy as well, but it's worth noting that the link between transgender and transracial is made by 'Montague' not 'Atlanta'. The episode is first and foremost attacking respectability politics, it seemed to me, but it all becomes weird when the commercials seem so self aware, while the talkshow doesn't.

Frederik B, Monday, 17 October 2016 10:39 (seven years ago) link

I haven't seen the episode yet but I highly doubt "trans racial" is mocking transgender. The term first had currency when Rachel dolezal claimed she was black and the kid they use (@r3trosp3ctro) who is "trans racial" had an online sketch at the time that went viral where he inverted the dolezal line as a joke

Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 17 October 2016 15:50 (seven years ago) link

I thought the part where the trams racial dude was acting white was the best part. Esp ratting out the black dude to the cops. "But I called the cops!"

Heez, Monday, 17 October 2016 17:21 (seven years ago) link

worth noting that "adult swim" elements in that last episode went well beyond homage: the montague theme song incorporates the bumper music from Eric Andre and the reporter on the trans-racial bit was "Nathan Wielder"

the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Monday, 17 October 2016 18:19 (seven years ago) link

Paper Boi/Alfred is a great character.. his reactions are priceless.

Glover's Earn is the least interesting character, here.. his personality feels vague or lacking somehow

braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Saturday, 22 October 2016 21:22 (seven years ago) link

The callback joke towards the end of this episode was amazing.

groovypanda, Monday, 24 October 2016 07:55 (seven years ago) link

"2 gangbangers hold a pastor & a drug dealer hostage in a stripclub during Katrina"

johnny crunch, Thursday, 27 October 2016 01:22 (seven years ago) link

The level of anti-trans bigotry in that last episode was a bit much. I mean, the guy who wanted to switch races was basically just a proxy for trans people right? I guess they figured that outright transphobic "humor" would be unacceptable but as long as they aired their bigoted views in the context of switching races it was ok

Surprised this was just left to sit there unchallenged, because it's basically doing exactly what the episode is criticising. They flipped it perfectly at the end by making the '35-year old white guy' virulently transphobic and homophobic (you know, like a lot of 35-year old white guys). But they point is that everyone on the show assumed he wasn't, he was given the benefit of the doubt. Which rather pointedly isn't extended to Paper Boi (who picks his words extremely badly but isn't actually transphobic and basically doesn't give a shit either way).

Paper Boi is then expected to be the voice of and the stand-in for all of "rap culture", and once that phrase enters the show it's basically carte-blanche for the liberal antagonist to project a load of views, with "rap culture" as a stand-in for working-class black guys, because rappers are often the only working class black dudes that a lot of white middle-class people have any real exposure to. (As an aside, this show in general is very sharp when it comes to black class politics). It's about who gets the presumption of bigotry and who is given the benefit of the doubt. It's satitirisng online kneejerk outrage culture, where people are so keen to prove their "progressive" credentials that they're blind to a load of, ahem, dodgy racial assumptions in the process.

When the Rachel Dolezal thing broke there were a lot of people on social media making false equivalencies with trans people rather than treating it for what it was, another white person taking a job that should by all rights have been given to a black person.

Matt DC, Friday, 28 October 2016 08:41 (seven years ago) link

After the season finale I feel confident in calling this the best show of the year, unless Rectify knocks it out of the park in the next couple of months. I have never seen hand-to-mouth existence depicted more realistically. I'm sure there is some French new wave film that isn't coming to mind right now, but this season alone excuses any amount of shitty hipster rap.

Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Wednesday, 2 November 2016 16:02 (seven years ago) link

i will say this show has done what i would've considered impossible: it's making me curious to check out childish gambino again

the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Wednesday, 2 November 2016 16:37 (seven years ago) link

he was on fresh air this week and sounded so super depressed

Mordy, Wednesday, 2 November 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link

the ny mag interview he gave made him sound a bit manic depressive yeah. this show is fucking great at its best and merely good when its not.
also - https://open.spotify.com/user/g0u1d1e1/playlist/547VqHwet5L1YssmZhpjc1

the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Wednesday, 2 November 2016 16:46 (seven years ago) link

use of elevators in the finale was just beautiful

lettered and hapful (symsymsym), Thursday, 3 November 2016 06:33 (seven years ago) link

thoroughly enjoyed this, esp the first 5 eps. maybe a touch uneven after that for me, but yeah, still really really good. strong closer too.

acerbic (sic)s (will), Thursday, 3 November 2016 07:22 (seven years ago) link

Not seen last two eps yet but this show has been amazing. Wasn't entirely sold on the Trans episode, but everything else it did/has done was masterful.

What was the song on the end credits of the club episode? someone help!

Is that my hand, manatee? (stevie), Thursday, 3 November 2016 12:58 (seven years ago) link

wiki p sez it is - Closing song: "I Can Dig It, Baby" by Little Beaver

johnny crunch, Thursday, 3 November 2016 13:13 (seven years ago) link

thanks johnny!

Is that my hand, manatee? (stevie), Thursday, 3 November 2016 13:58 (seven years ago) link

hand't noticed this thread. Def the best show out there.

dan selzer, Thursday, 3 November 2016 14:19 (seven years ago) link

matt dc otm

Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 3 November 2016 23:07 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

late pass on the this but holy shit as someone who was so fucking sick of being told how great community was and generally hostile to childish gambino naming albums "because the internet" i bow down to glover on this one, best TV show i've watched in a while

(4 eps in, really just blown away by how great this is)

blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 16:21 (seven years ago) link

it'll do that

A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 16:24 (seven years ago) link

(oblique finale spoilers)

I was so relieved when Earn opened up that storage unit and it wasn't a recording studio inside, wouldn't be able to handle Gambino creepin into this thing

a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 16:24 (seven years ago) link

several weeks later, i still chuckle to myself thinking about the invisible car

mizzell, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 16:33 (seven years ago) link

^ Very much this

groovypanda, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 21:56 (seven years ago) link

Ending season w "Elevators" was very affecting & appropriate

blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 1 January 2017 02:07 (seven years ago) link

they took this off on-demand while i was in the middle of watching it wtf

Mordy, Friday, 13 January 2017 01:51 (seven years ago) link

six months pass...

Started this the other night, it's excellent. I'd been putting off "Handmaid's Tale," because bummer, but (at my wife's insistence, ironically) we finally watched the first episode of that, which was fine. But then my wife asked for something shorter and lighter, so I suggested "Atlanta," and it was worth it just to watch her eyes light up with enjoyment. Three episodes in, and perfect blend of realism, comedy, drama, etc ... Weirdos or no, these seem like real people, which is unusual for TV. Strong acting, writing and direction all around.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 July 2017 20:56 (six years ago) link

You know where the word ‘manage’ come from?
‘Manus’ latin for ‘hand’?
… Probably, but I’m gonna say no for the purpose of my argument… Manage come from the word ‘Man’, and that isn’t really your lane
My lane?
Yeah, I need Malcolm. You’re too Martin, and you know what they did to him? They killed him.
Didn’t they kill Malcolm too?
Nah, they say that, but nobody’s seen the body since the funeral!
… That’s how funerals work…

― Frederik B, 12. september 2016 01:09 (ten months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Frederik B, Thursday, 20 July 2017 21:03 (six years ago) link

Just wanted to repost that. I should rewatch all of this.

Frederik B, Thursday, 20 July 2017 21:04 (six years ago) link

the pitbull episode was gold for me

Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 July 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link

four months pass...

Returns in February!

groovypanda, Monday, 11 December 2017 11:01 (six years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Premier date confirmed as March 1st

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQZJxDjv7uo

groovypanda, Monday, 8 January 2018 13:06 (six years ago) link

what does 'robbin' season' portend?

akm, Monday, 8 January 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link

Christmas, iirc

Frederik B, Monday, 8 January 2018 13:53 (six years ago) link

ah ok

http://www.vulture.com/2018/01/atlanta-season-two-robbin-season-how-it-got-its-name.html

I also love that their inspiration for a full season story arc is "Tiny Tunes: How I spent my Summer Vacation"

akm, Monday, 8 January 2018 14:06 (six years ago) link

one month passes...

We've all read this, yes?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/05/donald-glover-cant-save-you

too notch (stevie), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 12:32 (six years ago) link

Not yet.

Slant's review of the new season is pretty ecstatic.

Simon H., Wednesday, 28 February 2018 13:06 (six years ago) link

I swear i sometimes get lols at random times when paperboy rapping we muckin' we muckin'...massage and fuckin' gets in my head

It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 13:20 (six years ago) link

I finally watched the entire first season and I think I had some false assumptions about the tone from what I'd heard/seen in promos. I loved it.

The underlying feeling where many of the characters just want to get by, and are completely tired or ambivalent about what they're doing is something I've seldom seem done well, and it's so good here. Alfred's ongoing comments about how he doesn't really want to rap, he just wants to be able to do something to pay the bills. And then every stupid cliche repeatedly happening to him and he's just suffering through it. Earn just wanting to get by and trying to hitch his wagon to his cousin's possibilities.

mh, Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link

I still regularly chuckle thinking about that invisible car callback joke

groovypanda, Thursday, 1 March 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link

new yorker article kind of annoyed me.

Heez, Thursday, 1 March 2018 18:39 (six years ago) link

yup

Number None, Thursday, 1 March 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link

I find Glover a bit insufferable in general, although I enjoy the show

Number None, Thursday, 1 March 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link

Anyone else seen the first of the new season, or just us earlybird Australians?
Glad to see it returned with all its DNA intact, and maybe the funniest episode I'd seen.

startled macropod (MatthewK), Sunday, 4 March 2018 22:46 (six years ago) link

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

H in Addis, Friday, 24 February 2023 17:33 (one year ago) link

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.

kinder, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 11:24 (one year ago) link

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

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 14:13 (one year ago) link

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, 8 March 2023 14:45 (one year ago) link

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!

.austinuos, plug forth. (Austin), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 15:19 (one year ago) link

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.

change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 15:22 (one year ago) link

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

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 16:24 (one year ago) link

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."

clemenza, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 16:39 (one year ago) link

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

Heez, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 16:45 (one year ago) link

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...

kinder, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 18:15 (one year ago) link

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...

kinder, Friday, 17 March 2023 18:22 (one year ago) link


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