it has to be deliberate -- everything about this show seems very on purpose imowe did get a tiny bit of performance and a LOT of Darius dancing <3https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBCPMQp2l7Q
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Saturday, 16 April 2022 16:05 (two years ago) link
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
― mh, Saturday, 16 April 2022 17:01 (two years ago) link
i still need to catch up on this show - i remember their parody of a justin bieber song was v funny
― aegis philbin (crüt), Saturday, 16 April 2022 17:22 (two years ago) link
The Darius dancing was such a gift, I wanted even 10-15 more seconds
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 16 April 2022 17:38 (two years ago) link
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
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 16 April 2022 17:39 (two years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 20:28 (one year ago) link
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
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 20:38 (one year ago) link
lolo yeah i had forgotten that & was very confused for a few minutes during this last episode
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 20:50 (one year ago) link
re: episode 4, i thought that the point it was trying to make was interesting, and i liked the epilogue a lot, but in general it was leaden and not super enjoyable to watch.
episode 5 was good, i thought that wiley was a compellingly weird character. paper boi could maybe overcome his writers' block by using wiley's little song as a hook!
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
the last scene of ep4 with the minnie ripperton song was really beautiful somehow
― symsymsym, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 01:21 (one year ago) link
Ep6 was super on the nose (this whole season has been kinda on the nose) but I get why
As I was telling a friend -
I feel like we’re in a moment where creators are pointedly hitting the nail in the head because if they don’t many audiences will 100% not understand what’s happening - because they don’t have time to understand.. A lot of people exist on the surface of media because there’s too much media to absorb or they’re caught up in the chaos of life
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 22 April 2022 11:27 (one year ago) link
this season is getting to be a little too much. enough of the one-off white ppl episodes
― Heez, Friday, 29 April 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link
It's been an amazing season so far.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 29 April 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
i was wondering if this was a one off or if we would see, maybe one of Sylvia's daughters or the Tribeca guy or maybe the dad again? the dad was the least cartoonish of the two parents. the scene where they were talking to Sebastian about death made me want to puke, their voices, blecch. but what is the value to the show of feeling yucky about those parents? i get it and yet i don't.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 29 April 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
i'd did lol when i found out the Tribeca guy is Chet Hanks
― Heez, Friday, 29 April 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
Tonight’s episode, you guys
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 6 May 2022 02:35 (one year ago) link
Died at “I’ll just let fate take care of it.”
― DJI, Saturday, 7 May 2022 04:32 (one year ago) link
Lol that was funny
You kinda have to watch this with the volume cranked or you miss a lot of incidental adlibbed dialogue
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 7 May 2022 04:44 (one year ago) link
Or “adlibbed” dialogue
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 7 May 2022 04:45 (one year ago) link
When drugged-up Al was walking along and listening to Stereolab, that felt so much like Joe Buck's arrival at the fake-Warhol party in Midnight Cowboy--may even have been an allusion.
― clemenza, Sunday, 8 May 2022 14:23 (one year ago) link
“You didn’t have to call the boy Clarence Thomas. He ain’t THAT white.”
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 13 May 2022 03:38 (one year ago) link
lol that last shot
― mh, Saturday, 14 May 2022 16:46 (one year ago) link
lol'd at 'which soda is good for you?'
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 14 May 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
That last shot is amazing
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 14 May 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
one of the best parts of ATLANTA is how it shows all of these ways to be, and people moving between them, and they’re all so idiosyncratic and somewhat distorted so at no point do you think “hmm, yeah, that character… they’re a role model”except maybe Van, and I have no idea where she’s going to end up. she probably doesn’t, either
― mh, Saturday, 14 May 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
life imitates art imitates life etc.
A white mom on Fox News is complaining that her mixed son now sees himself as “a Black man.” She’s suing the school, says CRT taught her son to not do his chores.— Sophia Tesfaye (@SophiaTesfaye) May 16, 2022
― mh, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 15:23 (one year ago) link
i think i liked last week's ep more than any of the other anthology episodes
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:31 (one year ago) link
Is this gonna be a Van-centric episode? Feels like it.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 19 May 2022 21:44 (one year ago) link
https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/stephen-glover-atlanta-writer-interview?utm_campaign=complexmag&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR2UY69xgA-0WJL-9lDQiZhaPwPqCWV-Wo1NsF4Zjc_sdpD8eyDoNwZgTpU
regarding the weird show descriptions:
Stephen "Glover wrote the episode descriptions for Atlanta’s third season. The description for “Three Slaps” reads: “Wow it’s been a minute. I mean, I like this episode about the troubled kid but we waited 50 years for this?” “I told him to write them like somebody who hates Atlanta and he was like, ‘Bet,’” Donald Glover says."
― dan selzer, Friday, 20 May 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
I just caught up on the last two seasons. S2 was consistently excellent and hilarious. As for S3, most of the anthology episodes have been watchable, but I didn't like this week's Van ep at all and I usually like her character. it was a strange season overall, I didn't feel like they were always playing to their strengths
― Vinnie, Saturday, 21 May 2022 09:59 (one year ago) link
https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/stephen-glover-atlanta-writer-interview?utm_campaign=complexmag&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR3kiqrhQoRGgDW2iDeNqdAmA0CuEcntvIuQDbcisOeIEGQ6nhxGjrdqRbk
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 22 May 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link
get this girl a cigarette she’s freezing
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Monday, 23 May 2022 01:56 (one year ago) link
I didn't like the finale at all.
― clemenza, Monday, 23 May 2022 02:54 (one year ago) link
yeah I was pretty disappointed, the Drake episode that focused on Van in S2 was one of the series' best
― Vinnie, Monday, 23 May 2022 06:14 (one year ago) link
the van/darius episode in s3 keeps floating back into my mind
― mh, Monday, 23 May 2022 13:23 (one year ago) link
i watched the first half of the Van episode and honestly idgiMaybe the second half will explain itmaybe
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 23 May 2022 14:27 (one year ago) link
Kinda does but also not really worth it
― Vinnie, Monday, 23 May 2022 15:22 (one year ago) link
I'm not sure if I did end up getting it. Dream/fantasy sequence is the obvious answer, her Amélie-like adventure brought on by guilt over Lottie, but the transition didn't make that clear.
― clemenza, Monday, 23 May 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
Damn! Italicized instead of hiding the text. Sorry.
Skarsgård’a last few lines were great
― mh, Monday, 23 May 2022 15:28 (one year ago) link
it was absolutely not a dream sequence, there wasn't even any ambiguity like there was in the edible adventure episode
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Monday, 23 May 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
anyway, i thought this episode was hilarious, one of the funniest of the season if not the funniest
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Monday, 23 May 2022 15:30 (one year ago) link
for anyone wondering, my prior post about how maybe Van was going to show us how to be was definitely tongue-in-cheek. even I wasn't expecting this level of meltdown
― mh, Monday, 23 May 2022 15:30 (one year ago) link
I don't think any of it's a dream/fantasy sequence, just an ongoing state of absurdity that this season has leaned into
― mh, Monday, 23 May 2022 15:31 (one year ago) link
Read up a bit, and you're right, it's not a dream. I thought the whole thing was silly, even if it has all these artful references I just read about. I sat there the whole time thinking "this is ridiculous." And yes, I loved those other Van episodes like the Drake one.
― clemenza, Monday, 23 May 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link
The funniest line drop for me was Van admitting she started this Amelie shtick a few weeks ago
― mh, Monday, 23 May 2022 15:49 (one year ago) link
one thing this finale revealed is that van 100% definitely did steal that wig that the karen accused her of stealing lol
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Monday, 23 May 2022 15:55 (one year ago) link
and it was likely the amelie wig
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Monday, 23 May 2022 15:56 (one year ago) link
Good catch...I feel like I'm coming down too harshly on a show I've really admired. I thought about it some more, and here's the problem for me: stylistically, it's done in a broad, over-the-top manner that strongly suggests dream/fantasy. If it is for real, I think you need to tone that down quite a bit and somehow anchor it in the here and now. The celebrity cameo is not helpful in that regard.
― clemenza, Monday, 23 May 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
i don't think it was particularly out of step with the heightened reality that has always existed in this show, but mileage may vary, i guess
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Monday, 23 May 2022 16:58 (one year ago) link