Donald Glover's FX dramedy ATLANTA

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/

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

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.

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

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

the pitbull episode was gold for me

Returns in February!

Premier date confirmed as March 1st

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

what does 'robbin' season' portend?

Christmas, iirc

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"

We've all read this, yes?

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

Not yet.

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

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

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.

I still regularly chuckle thinking about that invisible car callback joke

new yorker article kind of annoyed me.

yup

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.

Katt Williams was amazing, this show is tops

premiere was awesome

Florida Man conspiracy A+++

haha so good. also 'he's alligator man'

how did the opening section connect to the rest though?

just illustrating that it is, in fact, robbin' season

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.

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.

having spent a lot of time in helen, ga, the last episode slayed me

this has been a really good season

van and earn's argument was too real. amazing season

Amy Seimetz directed that one!

nothing else is even close to being on this show's level rn

seeing the director credit is a little added boost at the end of the episode

I really love this show

This week's episode was a complete change of tone and absolutely hysterical.

Brian Tyree Henry was so good.

the seamless tonal shifts in this are very impressive, it can be funny as fuck and quite moving, and to do this in the half hour format is such good work.

Forgot this returned so just catching up but man that alligator scene was beauty

some proper LOLs there!

I liked the Keanu ref in the recent one

two guys in the movie, and they put the cat on the poster

One of the only shows that balances the truly bizarre and the mundane with serious panache

this is easily the best show on television right now
darius is maybe the most interesting character on television
last night's episode was as good as anything I've ever seen
so happy that they're letting him get away with any goddamn thing he wants... no ads!

darius is awesome - totally chill existential dude

agreed this is the best show rn, second only to nirvanna the band/high maintenance which both wrapped up recently anyway.

ahhh jesus, Teddy!

I enthusiastically endorsed this show so many times over the weekend and was at a loss for words about, although I definitely tried to explain the premise of, the most recent episode

There's something about how there are so many moments about the absurdity of normal experiences that makes me kind of daydream about the characters

recent article here is good, btw:
https://www.theroot.com/atlanta-donald-glover-and-the-invisibility-of-black-ge-1825116384

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

Yeah great episode but ... nope

was teddy perkins ep double-length or am i just remembering that way because there was SO MUCH in it?

it was not quite double, but it was commercial free and long

35 minutes where the rest are usually 23 - 26 minutes, looks like

trying to remember if this was the first show I noticed variable run times on...maybe that was girls?

have you seen Fawlty Towers