Donald Glover's FX dramedy ATLANTA

We just finished season 3. I know other seasons have leaned into horror here and there, but this entire season was written and directed like a horror anthology.

Tbh that’s why I haven’t gotten past the first 2 episodes of s3.

yeah there is a noticeable "throw every idea i have ever had into the bag" feeling to this show in general but i tend to appreciate that -- the impulse to seize the day and make the stuff you wanna make before someone takes the opportunity away from you is real

otm. Season 4 has some of this still but it calms down. Worth finishing.

s3 was in the tank

these backhoes aint loyal

Lol

i knew donald glover was overseeing a remake of mr & mrs smith (which seems completely unnecessary ..)

but had no idea he was also involved in a slasher/comedy show about obsessive music fans referred to as the swarm (uh, beyhive) and its coming out in march???

just saw trailer for it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OggFj5z2SLg

I'm only at the end of s3 right now but did no-one itt talk about the Cancel Club cameo?! This show has gotten more wtf. I kind of like it but also feel like maybe I'm not 'getting' everything.

I finally finished the show last week. Give Glover all the money.

Atlanta writer Stefani Robinson creating a remake of Peep Show, or at least using the Peep Show format (with approval of Mitchell and Webb), but with two american women.

Easily the greatest show of all time, like it's not even close.

― gospodin simmel, Friday, November 11, 2022 1:46 PM

marathoned everything (which was all rewatch except for the last season) to coincide with the finale last year and i had a similar reaction after the last ep.

i've kind of kept quiet ever since, but honestly: gospodin otm. such a perfectly fluid execution of comedy and commentary, seriousness and surrealism.

you know a show is good when you try to think of a single favorite episode and all of your candidates are spread evenly across the show's lifespan.

Atlanta writer Stefani Robinson creating a remake of Peep Show, or at least using the Peep Show format (with approval of Mitchell and Webb), but with two american women.

― dan selzer, Wednesday, March 8, 2023 6:45 AM

this sounds amazing lol!

I just finished it too, actually. So many purgatorial spaces.

Almost everyone I know was put off by the last two seasons but idk, I really liked it and was happy to roll with everything.

My wife likes the stuff centered around the core cast *least* and loves all the stand-alone and solo episodes.

The last two seasons, I guess I let the show be whatever it wanted to be--definitely not liking every episode, but admiring (most of) its weirdness along the way--but the real highlights were in the first two seasons for me. Right to the end, my favourite moment remained the end of the Drake episode, something I quoted earlier in the thread:

Vanessa's friend: "Can you help me stop thinking?"
Darius: (pause) "Perhaps."

as someone who grew up maybe 10 miles from Glover with only a 4 year age difference i have to say he did a really good job of representing Atlanta. esp the Helen episode and the ep that i assume took place at georgia southern university for a wider look at the state. so many scenes in the inner burbs where everything's green and lush, tons of trees. the industrial areas surrounded by forest. made me miss the place

Atlanta writer Stefani Robinson creating a remake of Peep Show, or at least using the Peep Show format (with approval of Mitchell and Webb), but with two american women.

Are you an AI generating stuff that it seems like I might like but in reality is likely to make no sense? :)
There have been a few US versions of Peep Show iirc, the one I saw sucked badly.
I'd give it a chance...

https://www.google.com/search?q=stefani+robinson+peep+show&rlz=1C5GCEM_enUS1019US1020&oq=stefa&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j46i39j69i57j46i433i512j0i131i433l2j69i60j69i65.1084j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

I loved the spite episode so much. any over-elaborate plan like that - was trying to think what other series had done something in the same ball park then realised I was probably thinking of that episode of WWDITS...