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
feels a lot like satire through magic realism to me tbh
― mh, Monday, 23 May 2022 17:03 (one year ago) link
have we already forgotten the invisible car
or, say, the entirety of that teddy perkins episode
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Monday, 23 May 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
I actually have forgotten the invisible car (Teddy Perkins was one of my least favourite episodes).
Maybe I'm over-explaining something much simpler: I like the real Van a lot, and hated her as that character.
― clemenza, Monday, 23 May 2022 17:18 (one year ago) link
I had fun with this season but understand the frustrations many have with it.
Hopefully S4 will be more straightforward.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 23 May 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link
I loved everything about this season. It was very discomfiting, as m/l explicitly intended.
― If you were really hard core, you'd have thrown a full bottle (WmC), Monday, 23 May 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
I just finished Ron Brownstein's Rock Me on the Water, about film/music/TV/Jerry Brown in early-'70s L.A., and one of the things it goes into is network interference in the early days of All in the Family/Mary Tyler Moore/MASH. I take it that such a thing barely exists these days. I'm not even talking about sex or profanity, more conceptually; it's almost inconceivable you could have a show where the three lead characters are not in four out of 10 episodes.
― clemenza, Monday, 23 May 2022 21:06 (one year ago) link
I don't think Atlanta's level of rule breaking would be allowed in most other places, even now. Glover(s) got special allowances from FX/Hulu.
― nickn, Monday, 23 May 2022 21:11 (one year ago) link
i would guess that it's less about "allowing" 4 episodes where the main cast doesn't appear, more like "lakeith is only available for 5 episodes, zazie can do 4, brian can do 6–how can we make this work?"
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Monday, 23 May 2022 21:17 (one year ago) link
these folks are busy, and this fractured approach is probably more a result of busy schedules and covid regulations than anyone on the creative team would likely admit
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Monday, 23 May 2022 21:18 (one year ago) link
Hadn't considered that, but it's still something to get the go-ahead; I would think most shows would just shut down (like Mindhunter did, so yes, xposts, maybe Atlanta's the exception right now) until everyone's available.
― clemenza, Monday, 23 May 2022 23:01 (one year ago) link
this fractured approach is probably more a result of busy schedules and covid regulations
Yeah I figured that was the case, much like how Arrested Development S4 focused on one character at a time to accommodate busy schedules
It would be strange to hate the finale because of the surrealism, it's a show built around that. I just found the episode a lot more annoying than amusing, seems that everyone's mileage varies. I think I'd feel the same about Amelie if I watched that movie again now heh
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 01:52 (one year ago) link
I think they probably have a decent script backlog, and apparently all of this season (according to what I read) was written in 2019, when everyone was even more busy
― mh, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 02:01 (one year ago) link
It would be strange to hate the finale because of the surrealism, it's a show built around that. I just found the episode a lot more annoying than amusing
Same for me, if I've been ambiguous about that; I didn't at all object to the weirdness or surrealism, just the specific idea and the execution of it.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 16:39 (one year ago) link
What was the significance of the photo in the post credits scene?
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
the white guy from the beginning of the season has the same name as him?
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
Ah, cheers
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 17:21 (one year ago) link
We be in the city. OFFICIAL TRAILER for #AtlantaFX: The Final Season. September 15 on FX. Stream on @Hulu. pic.twitter.com/LdxidH63oI— AtlantaFX (@AtlantaFX) August 2, 2022
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 7 August 2022 00:32 (one year ago) link
for the final season, they’re taking it back to where it all beganwait that’s still the title of the show, wtf
― mh, Sunday, 7 August 2022 14:04 (one year ago) link
Can't wait!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 7 August 2022 14:21 (one year ago) link
I was pretty up-to-date with Top 40 hip-hop in 1993, so I'm surprised I have no memory at all of Paperboy's "Ditty," which I stumbled over when I started looking into the origins of the name Paper Boi--an amalgamation, I guess, of Big Boi and Paperboy. Anyway, I started down that road because of a book I'm reading on the USFL. I wanted to know if the name was maybe a reference to an obscure corner of league history having to do with Greg Fields' nickname for a couple of teammates: "The two were heading for a meeting, and Fields looked at Kraus--who was being paid $1 million over six years--and said, 'Wellllllll, fuck--there's the big paper boy!'" Fields starting calling the two teammates "the big paper boys," and he became known as Big Paper.
Maybe the 1993 Paperboy took his name from all of that.
― clemenza, Sunday, 7 August 2022 15:12 (one year ago) link
I thought paper was a straightforward reference to money? (all about that paper, boy)
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Sunday, 7 August 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
I'm looking for meaning in all the wrong places--I'm sure it's a straightforward as you say. (In which case 1993 Paperboy was at least thinking along the same lines as 1984 Greg Fields.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 7 August 2022 15:31 (one year ago) link
great use of Cousteau in the trailer
― fpsa, Sunday, 7 August 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
in the us, the paperboy delivered your morning paper. in atlanta, paper boi gets that paper
― mh, Sunday, 7 August 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
Halfway between, Tony Soprano, standing at the end of his driveway.
https://phildellio.tripod.com/paper.jpg
― clemenza, Sunday, 7 August 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link