>We see him struggling with this life he built in some key
>ways...
>
>at one point, he tries to connect w/Earn, his cousin..his
>friend, but he realizes that he can't...at least not like
>before. it shines a spotlight on how when you "come up" and
>all the jobs around you are filled by the people closest to
>you, the "job" becomes bigger than you expected it to be in
>that person's life. Earn was almost fired for being a shitty
>manager so now he is now a competent and skilled artist
>manager, which means its damn near all consuming. Earn's
>anticipating of his needs/wants really drove this home for
>Alfred.
>
>then later, he dismisses everyone from the room cuz he only
>felt safe to share his most vulnerable self with someone who
>wasn't them...he found the words that he can't any other time,
>with Earn and Darius...and we found out that he's
>struggling...that he don't feel the same about rapping..that
>he feels its too late to do anything else...that he's trapped,
>essentially.
>
>Brian Tyree Henry is at the top of his game as an actor. every
>single thing i see him in, he's excellent...even his little
>small part in If Beale Street Could Talk
>
>anyway, this episode was pivotal and I think Paper Boi is
>gonna quit the tour.
>
>
>d
>
>
>I don't speak to provoke. I speak because I think our time is
>short and each moment that we are not our truest selves, and
>we say what we do not mean because we imagine that is what
>somebody wants us to say, is wasting our time on this Earth -
>C. Adichie