Donald Glover's FX dramedy ATLANTA

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?

I don't want to deprive anyone of this: I will say that the cut to Earn made me gasp--a jump-scare that wasn't really even a jump-scare. Something they did with the sound.

it was a dream within a dream, nolan style

this show has completely primed us for an episode that doesn’t feature any of the main characters at all. that public access tv episode was basically that, with a brief appearance from paper boi

I had a dream last night that involved African-Americans. I was sitting in the audience at the Academy Awards and--never mind, it's so far-fetched it's not even worth describing.

still cracking up at "is Hugs your father?"

And the dog is named Corn Pop.

Also wtf with that suicide machine? I cannot imagine a worse possible way to go. Please tell me that isn’t a real thing. I’m not googling it.

lol

that series of events combined with the chime ringing made me laugh harder than I had in a while

I have to say, this show is amazing at setting up a series of very serious events immediately followed by something insanely absurd

then the perfect drop of "hail mary" lol

With the noise from the beginning of the song played by the guy!!

S3E1 is dark AF

Lol @ S3 ep3 where they agree about everyone hating Moby

S3Ep5 was so good -- I feel like I need to watch it again. When will we ever get to see Paper Boi perform on this tour?! It's so weird to me how we keep getting closer but we still don't get to watch a performance. The venue & characters especially in this episode.

feels like it's deliberate, I as actually surprised we heard as much of his music in this episode as we did.

Amazing episode. Amazing season. Amazing show.

it has to be deliberate -- everything about this show seems very on purpose imo
we did get a tiny bit of performance and a LOT of Darius dancing <3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBCPMQp2l7Q

The most we’ve heard of a paper boi song is still the horrible white woman cover from way back, right? It’s very intentional

i still need to catch up on this show - i remember their parody of a justin bieber song was v funny

The Darius dancing was such a gift, I wanted even 10-15 more seconds

It like he’s heard all this music and seen these performances countless time but this is his good friend and he’s STILL hype when the moment comes

I didn't think as highly of E5 as some of you, but I thought E4, "The Big Payback," was excellent, especially when "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (one of my favorite songs ever) played overtop Earnest/E holding court with Marshall. That would have been a great scene anyway, but having it play out to Roberta Flack covering a 1957 British folk song made it that much more complicated.

i think part of the reason why they don't show too much of paper boi's music is because it is so clearly donald glover rapping. the voice doesn't fit brian tyree henry at all haha