Atlanta season 3, coming to FX March 24

Yes!

Donald Glover has gotten a little chubs, but I would still suck him cross-eyed. Cutie!

Not really.

What was that all about? I realize it was based on a real incident but why did Glover think it needed fictionalization? Felt a bit homophobic to me.

Not in the least.

R4, Atlanta has little vignette one offs like these from time to time. This one was actually engaging.

I don't think it was homophobic. It felt more anti-white.

Atlanta does these dark episodes well, we just have to realize it is not directly connected to the main plot.

It was a fast recap of how bad the CPS system and schools can be. They took an old man lightly slapping a silly kid's face and instead of giving him detention, shuffled him through a badly managed CPS system. It does a good job referring that horrible hippie family that drove off a cliff with their foster kids, despite lots of moving and reports of neglect and no schooling.

The couple was funny and real because they are the "good mothers"/fraus that think they are always right BUT are just not as smart, clean, or patient as they want to appear. This site constantly makes fun of women who are like this.

One woman even repeatedly says something like "I thought we were doing the right thing but we need help."

I almost didn't make it through the first episode because the story of the Hart kids is too sick and sad. I am glad I stuck it out.

The story of Lake Lanier and then going to the story of the Hart family and ep. 2 about the assisted suicide has me hoping that this season continues to be macabre.

I loved it. Such a good show

Anyone else worried that Ern's cold is covid?

He hired Malia Obama as a writer for the show.

No, R11, that's for his next show for Amazon.

Atlanta is wrapped - seasons 3 and 4 were shot at the same time.

I loved this week's episode. A lot of layers

Atlanta is very, very dark show!

Is this entire thread written by PR interns?

Yes r3 I know your kind. Why come on this thread?

Is this show gonna fuck me up?

I cannot stand seeing children being hurt, even if fictionalized.

Is it grittier than THE WIRE?

Weirdly, Friday morning there were two new episodes on Hulu and then an hour later, only one; the episode set in the billionaires house with the tree. Wish I had watched both while I had the chance.

Amazing episode, though. WTF is going on with Van?

I think she's just depressed and having a quarter life crisis.

I liked that the billionaire was South African.

So half the new episodes this season have been anthology shows? Killer episode, though! Christ.

Last night's episode on FX was incredible!! It's a stand alone episode about reparations for slavery.

I just read that the guy in the hotel was the same guy on the boat in the opening of the foster child episode, the guy who told the scary story about the town that was flooded. So maybe there is a thread of sorts connecting these thematic anthology episodes.

(It pains me that Gilded Age and Squid Games and freaking Bridgerton get multiple threads and this show gets 22 posts.)

I know. It's such a good show.

The most recent episode about reparations left me speechless. The writing was brilliant. As a black man, I actually felt a little sorry for the episode’s main character and that fat obnoxious black woman was a pain. Go through the courts fat mama. Bringing the family to his place for a cookout kinda pissed me off.

WTF, Socks? Cool episode, but not sure what the ending was supposed to mean.

What was that picture the dad got on his phone during the funeral?

It was an Airdrop of a monkey's asshole. Which one of the funeral goers sent to illustrate the Trini proverb, that "the higher a successful goes, the more his asshole shows"

I love these standalone episodes. White people feel attacked and Black people are exhausted of explaining racism to white people so they're derided, but I fucking love them. And it makes me look forward to Van, Earn, Paperboi and Darius next week.

Holy Fuck!

Good shit

The Trini episode was really great, but how many hundreds of thousands of British kids have been raised completely by servants and schoolmasters?

It's also the same Imitation of Life funeral gag, for a minute.

r32 in Black America's eyes, every English person is rich and has grown up with a butler and posh accent. They are incredibly ignorant.

That was Chet Hanks playing the patois Tribeca guy,

And another interesting cameo last night

One of the show's writers with a picture of him cooking a white baby doll on a BBQ. Very provocative and aggressive statement.

I don't think they even thought about it, R34. They may have filmed some of the season in Europe, but it's window-dressing for extremely parochial views, mostly. That said, I'm enjoying this season very much.

The balls on that guy for taking that cameo, but it was absolute genius. The whole episode was.

This whole season has been dizzying. Afro-David Lynch.

Just a heads-up: there’s a post-credits scene to this week's episode.

This show is without question the best thing on TV - however, I'll be dipped in shit if I can understand ANYTHING about this last "Vanessa" episode....!! But it is so compelling, who cares?

It was a little off, but I'm so glad they kept with the horror theme throughout the whole season.

Yeah, even by the standards of this season, that episode was WEIRD. But I absolutely loved this season. Best one yet. Hands down, the most ambitious thing on TV.

And I hope Skarsgard gets to do the Baby Shark movie.

That worked better than the Liam Neeson bit.

Oh, I thought the Neeson cameo was genius. Really unsettling in the best way. But Skarsgard was funny.

I wonder how long we’ll have to wait for the next season.

The Trini episode was great because it wasn't just Evil White Devil Doing Evil White Person Things (which Atlanta often leans into). Instead, the episode was nuanced and emotional and felt incredibly profound because it also felt incredibly true. The characters were complex. Even the white ones. And it made the entire episode moving and transformative.

It's episodes like this that make Atlanta one of the best shows around.

Who was the guy in the picture that was in the bag that didn't belong to Earn?

The guy who shot himself at the end of the reparations episode.

He was the white guy in the boat in the beginning episode 1 and the guy who shot him self in (episode 4?) the reparations episode.

His name was also Earn.

Well Earn's baby momma was Amelie in that episode; too many portentous identities.

Thank you, r48 & r49.

SNUBBED at the Emmys! No Best Comedy Series nomination.

Glover up for Best Actor, Hiro Murai for direction, and another nod for cinematography, but that's it.

I thought Donald Glover told us this was the best TV since The Sopranos? What happened??

What happened? There's a limited number of nominations to give out, that's what happened.

As with Oscars, people who worship these awards perplex me.

So that's it? The series ended?

No sure what hallucinogenic drugs the writers took for this season, but it had little to do with the main characters lives. This season was like one bad acid trip.

Sure, there was good acting from all, but rather convoluted storylines, a season where the acting transcended the oddball scripts. Unfortunately, the last season was weird for the sake of being weird and mostly all surface.

Was this last season some sort of homage to Jordan Peele's horror films?

#EmmysSoWhite

When are we marching?

Donald Glover, we await instructions!

[quote]Glover up for Best Actor

It seemed to me like Glover was barely in the show this season. Every other regular cast member got more screen time than he did.

Yes, Glover barely did anything this season, certainly nothing Best Actor worthy.

It's crazy that Brian Tyree Henry and Lakeith Stansfield, who got a ton of great scenes, were passed over for this list:

Anthony Carrigan (“Barry”)

Brett Goldstein (“Ted Lasso”)

Toheeb Jimoh (“Ted Lasso”)

Nick Mohammed (“Ted Lasso”)

Tony Shalhoub (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”)

Tyler James Williams (“Abbott Elementary”)

Henry Winkler (“Barry”)

Bowen Yang (“Saturday Night Live”)

I mean, come on, seriously?

Bowen Yang? Doesn't he basically play himself?