Donald Glover's FX dramedy ATLANTA

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

for the final season, they’re taking it back to where it all began

wait that’s still the title of the show, wtf

Can't wait!

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.

I thought paper was a straightforward reference to money? (all about that paper, boy)

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.)

great use of Cousteau in the trailer

in the us, the paperboy delivered your morning paper. in atlanta, paper boi gets that paper

Halfway between, Tony Soprano, standing at the end of his driveway.

https://phildellio.tripod.com/paper.jpg

There were/are many rappers out there named Paperboy (with various spellings, etc).

This will never not be hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1kmT_Yv3Ss

yes!

This has started up again--final season, right? I'm just finishing a rewatch of The Americans, will get started right after.

Yep. We’re back!

First episode was hilarious

last two episodes so good

"8 minutes"

Haven't seen the last two episodes but Alfred's storyline in episode 3 was amazing. I've been enjoying this season more than the previous so far

“Safe farm is there”

That’s a keeper.

I liked that they apparently bargained shoe man from 8 minutes down to 3 seconds.

Hahaha this episode

This was such a random swerve at this point in the season

I'm four episodes in. Liked the first two (and was glad to see all the principles back), so-so on the third, thought the fourth started slow and got better and better. There was a great line about dementia. The idea of building an episode around spite reminded me of Jerry trying to return the jacket in Seinfeld.

I guess FX being owned by Disney has had one positive outcome now

amazing

googling after the episode led me to this incredible Roger Ebert three-star review of A Goofy Movie, written after the projector broke two-thirds of the way through: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/a-goofy-movie-1995

Bravo! What an episode (again)!

Not sure what to make of E5. Pleasantly weird, but I didn't really laugh.

Was that the Mr Chocolate episode?

Seem to remember lots of laughs in that one

Yeah it was. Liked that episode but found it more weird and amusing than laugh-out-loud funny. Now, episode 6... some of the most laughs I've had from this show

A little embarrassed how long it took me to realize the latest episode was not a real story

Ha. It was so well crafted (and acted) though

Most of the laughs in episode 5 were at how absurd it all was but the end when Mr Chocolate loses it and screams "I shall have her! She can't be not-eighteen forever!" definitely cracked me up

Ha, wait -

Did a throwaway joke from the “Crank Dat Killer” episode pay off?!?

Thought the weirdness of S6 was funnier than S5, especially the very last scene where Darius responds to Paper Boi and Some Guy Named Doug's recording.

maybe thirty minoots

lost it completely at that bit

I was never more fucked up by any scene than by the one just preceding that thirty minoots line. The only comparison I can think of is the nightmare sequence in Mulholland Drive, but this one was tied to much deeper feelings. I can't believe someone put THAT on screen. Easily the greatest show of all time, like it's not even close.

I’m definitely going to think “don’t worry, I’m still in the tank” a few times this week

What a way to go out.

This is so weird so often, E7 (camping) was strange in how decidedly un-weird it was. I liked it; thought they controlled the tone really well. Thinking about E8...Deadpan-perfect, just a lot to process.

E7 felt like the quiet, rewarding end of Earn and Van's plot arc and I appreciated that

Maybe the whole series was Darius retelling the events of the last few years, while having a very tenuous grasp on what happened during tank time and what was real

I haven't kept up with this thread because we hadn't seen S3 yet, let alone S4. But we just jumped back in and started S3, and we were immediately reminded, boy, is this show good (and weird). Can't wait to hit S4.

yeah i’m way behind in early s3

looking forward to whats in store

As I watched E7--and always anticipating the weird turn--I was thinking "Get Out...no, wait; Deliverance...no wait..."

The tension is so thick in that one, both because of how it’s directed and what this show has trained us to anticipate.

you might say the episode was a metaphorical snipe hunt

🥁

E9: bucolic, like E7, but with the scary stuff left in. Broke one of my cardinal soundtracking rules early on with the Geto Boys--used a great song only to cut it off almost immediately (they could have had Alfred wander around aimlessly for two minutes while it played, I'd have been happy)--but made up for it with "Under Me Sleng Teng" (great! new to me) and Ray Charles.

Omg the mall scene - ep 6 so full of moments
Love this show so much!!!