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
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
great show. coming back in 2018..http://shadowandact.com/2017/01/12/donald-glover-inks-new-overall-deal-with-fx-productions-atlanta-wont-return-until-2018/
― slam dunk, Friday, 13 January 2017 01:08 (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
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 laneMy 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…
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― 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
Returns in February!
― groovypanda, Monday, 11 December 2017 11:01 (six years ago) link
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
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
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
Katt Williams was amazing, this show is tops
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Sunday, 4 March 2018 22:55 (six years ago) link
premiere was awesome
― Simon H., Sunday, 4 March 2018 23:13 (six years ago) link
Florida Man conspiracy A+++
― dan selzer, Sunday, 4 March 2018 23:40 (six years ago) link
haha so good. also 'he's alligator man'
― akm, Monday, 5 March 2018 00:26 (six years ago) link
how did the opening section connect to the rest though?
just illustrating that it is, in fact, robbin' season
― Simon H., Monday, 5 March 2018 00:28 (six years ago) link
The denouement of the cold open, with the girl crying like a kid at having been shot, was so weird and believable and mundane, it did a lot of things to me that no other show does.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Monday, 5 March 2018 00:34 (six years ago) link
Watching Season 1 on Hulu. Which means I'll see Season 2 a year from now, or thereabouts. Just finished Episode 4, which was as amazing as everyone upthread has said. Earn's ranting monologue about poverty, the pizza delivery kid screaming "I know where you live!" after getting robbed, everything Darius says or does...this show kills me.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 5 March 2018 00:40 (six years 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
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
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 18:51 (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