Donald Glover's FX dramedy ATLANTA

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!

yeah this thread is making me sure I want to watch it all over again. in the uk they screened it around the same time they started showing Better Things, and both are high-points of the 2010s hybrid sitcom form for me - very different shows, but both brave and loose and inspired

Season 3 trailer!

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

Looks hilarious, the king is back

Back on March 24.

https://www.avclub.com/after-a-three-year-break-fx-s-atlanta-will-return-this-1848261983

yaaaay

Good, show is genius.

Finally settling in to watch this. (Thank you, library DVD section!)

Good timing, I think season 3 premieres at the end of March. and they just announced that the already filmed season 4 will be the final season.

This show is wild.

The invisible car!!!!

<3 so amazing

Oh man I must’ve watched that clip a million times.

I burned through the first two seasons in two days

the invisible car bit is so great because the payoff hits juuuuust long enough for you to forget about the set up

*just late enough

he does that again with the "drake is mexican?" bit

It’s really all about Darius, isn’t it?

he’s the special sauce in the magic Atlanta burger

The suffering girl in “FUBU” - who has a good day, and then a bad day - makes me think of an episode of The Wire, late in Season 4.

I don't wanna wait as long as we just did for the next season but man, those two eps was more than worth the wait

best TV show

Just amazing. Credit to FX. This and Better Things are the two most unique things going right now.

We were watching ep 1 and thinking wow this is over the top but of course nope.

Did this start up again and I missed it?

I need 300 pieces of fried chicken
All legs

Yeah that first episode. Was wild and had some serious Jordan peele vibe and halfway through my wife was like wait, I think this actually happened.

just started watching and
what. the. fuck. did these white women do to that chicken

Enjoyed the first episode, have learned about the real-life connection, but how was it connected to the show's main characters? This is just a dream Earn had? Confused.

Not confused--baffled. Did I miss the connection?

it’s a dream of Earn’s — or is it?