I hated this episode, full stop, so much so it's the only one of the season I watched more than once (three times) with a different co-watcher each time to gauge their opinions.


(They're less opinionated than me overall, but were still what could generically be described as "confused".)


But when I said that I love the Malkmus approach to fans interpreting art, I love it because it's so different from how most media is these days where everything is some kind of tease or hint at a bigger thing, often in large part because the fans have done so much work to imply it could be.


So I kind of loved, as somebody who didn't do the homework before or after the episode on first watch and was absolutely put off by it, that I could've done so and possibly come to entirely different reactions. In a different way than, say, CyrenYoung, I do think that's really cool of Atlanta that it's a Black show about Black issues starring Black actors and it's challenging in the way classically challenging TV can be. On rewatching, I liked the episode a little more each time just because I couldn't help but realize, despite whatever I wanted from this show, this was what they wanted to give me.


I felt like I was the target of the stale baguette, but I'm also wondering a bit more if the stale baguette was the primary metaphor for this entire season.


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