First full trailer just dropped. Back in actual Atlanta:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB-jmFA1NMk

Plus, I wanna get back to sitting with the main crew.

Season 3 ep. 1 - I was willing to go with it and see the beauty in it.

After half the episodes being like that….nah. Fuck that. Give me what I signed up for.

>After half the episodes being like that….nah. Fuck that.
>Give me what I signed up for.

nobody cares.

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

it was a common complaint from a lot of viewers last season.

came in here all huffy.. lol.

Jeez, lol.

when they hear a lil’ bit of criticism.

like you can even chop it up anymore about shit

DONT WATCH NIGGAH
DONT LISTEN NIGGAH
WHO CARES NIGGAH

Actually, I'll still watch so my complaints can be specific lol

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

season 3 was shockingly good, they took the premise and took it to a place I didn't expect. the surrealism was perfect.

Too bad the show isn't set up for syndication so everybody can get paid, but then the art would suffer...but I could be way wrong, maybe it will be

And I say that as a person that LOVES the cast.
Last season was fantastic. I loved that the writers explored more ideas.

Based on the trailer I figure this will be just the orig. cast,
but yeah...more anthology stuff please.

>And I say that as a person that LOVES the cast.
>Last season was fantastic. I loved that the writers explored
>more ideas.
>
>Based on the trailer I figure this will be just the orig.
>cast,
>but yeah...more anthology stuff please.

Heard the first three episodes are "generally" good.

will watch today. Looked like it was off to an interesting start..

Vern been in these streets.. lol.

i was trying to watch last thursday but i was not going to stay up. had to watch friday.

i loved both episodes. for me these last two seasons have been great, except for maybe 1 or 2 episodes, main cast or not.

Yo! Ha ha.

Loved that entire looting scene.

I saw that they pulled the moment with the woman in the wheelchair from a viral story. Not familiar with it though.

Especially when she starting appearing in Darius' rearview mirror. I thought she was going to be a one time character at the start of the episode.
The fact the she kept popping up everywhere with supernatural ability was hilarious.

I know for sure she killed that girl they left in that parking lot.

Not that police interactions are all that great, but I’d rather explain what’s going on to them than somebody like Dwight from the office thinking they’re a high ranking law enforcement officer as a volunteer.

when girl said she was taking an uber i was like uh oh but i didnt expect the wheelchair lady lol

https://www.insider.com/target-wheelchair-jennifer-knife-looters-gypsy-rose-twitter-fire-extinguisher-2020-5

Definitely got lost in the parking deck about 3 times, before I started paying attention to what I was parking near.

-Greenbriar Rich’s FTW!
-Finding/seeing people you used to kick it with at Atlantic Station is so accurate and specific.
-Going that far to ruin the lady from the airport’s life was magnifique, and I’m glad Earn felt like shit for doing it.
-A posthumous scavenger hunt seemed like something MF Doom would do.

I loved the S3 weird shit, but these are off to a way better start.

>-A posthumous scavenger hunt seemed like something MF Doom
>would do.

When Al said "he died three months ago and they just released a statement" that made me think about him dying on Halloween and the statement about his death came on New Year's Eve. Plus he lived in Atlanta.

specifically said MF Doom.

i didn't think he did, but the scenario was basically the same so i had to check.

they made sense once you experienced things that made the references come alive.

zoo pie is a thing?

paper boi sat down, as the song said "over your head like a piece of meat, sit down, lean back and take a seat"

right as he sat down under the pictures.


>>-A posthumous scavenger hunt seemed like something MF Doom
>>would do.
>
>When Al said "he died three months ago and they just released
>a statement" that made me think about him dying on Halloween
>and the statement about his death came on New Year's Eve. Plus
>he lived in Atlanta.

exactly. and then paper boi got to the funeral and blue blood's girl was like, you the fifth one. he thought there'd be more.

i'm gonna rewatch that just to hear the music.


peace & blessings,

x.

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focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
not having much to show for it. (c) mad

Earl Sweatshirt is so dope when he raps on beat

definitely thought it was a nod to doom. i remember i had seen someone mention a nod to mf doom but didnt remember who or wear. the whole episode i was wondering who did the raps then i find out it was earl and it all clicked.

I liked episode 2 much more than ep 1 because it was more realism.

Seasons 1 and 2, there was surreal moments sprinkled in.
But it was mainly realistic. Earn being homeless and dealing with relationship issues. Al balancing fame. Van trying to pass a drug test. Darius selling a dog.

The first episode made the surreal the main event. Wheelchair Karen who can track down an air fryer anywhere. The haunted mall where exes are banished to. The mall emergency exit that leads to Al on his dead rapper scavenger hunt.

Episode 2 was more grounded in real life like season 1 and 2. Even though Earn's extreme vindictiveness borders on surreal lol

>I liked episode 2 much more than ep 1 because it was more
>realism.
>
>Seasons 1 and 2, there was surreal moments sprinkled in.
>But it was mainly realistic. Earn being homeless and dealing
>with relationship issues. Al balancing fame. Van trying to
>pass a drug test. Darius selling a dog.
>
>The first episode made the surreal the main event. Wheelchair
>Karen who can track down an air fryer anywhere. The haunted
>mall where exes are banished to. The mall emergency exit that
>leads to Al on his dead rapper scavenger hunt.
>
>Episode 2 was more grounded in real life like season 1 and 2.
>Even though Earn's extreme vindictiveness borders on surreal
>lol

Also, I’m so happy that Tracy is back.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

I didn't see the entire interview, but I saw a clip of Donald Glover on LeBron's HBO Babershop show. In the clip, he mentioned his primary motivation for the Awaken My Love album was to spite someone that said he couldn't make a top charting album, if memory serves me correct.

I'm sure someone will post up the Youtube clip below this response to correct me if I'm wrong.

>I didn't see the entire interview, but I saw a clip of Donald
>Glover on LeBron's HBO Babershop show. In the clip, he
>mentioned his primary motivation for the Awaken My Love album
>was to spite someone that said he couldn't make a top charting
>album, if memory serves me correct.

purposely didnt make a video for redbone. Wanted to show he could do it off the music alone just to prove the point.

I reveled in that shit. I can't imagine any black person that has suffered the kind of petty indignity he went through doesn't fantasize about doing what he did.

And if it cost you relatively nothing to pull off, why not?

:)

when everyone started leaving her at the reading i was thinking thats so weird but had no clue what was going on.

granted the random agent calling her was odd but never did i think she was the airline worker lol

when he was in therapy and asked for a break it was a bit odd but i also did think he maybe was sincere. he just needed to make sure he wasnt talked out of doing it lol

Shit caught be COMPLETELY by surprise. But on the real I LOVED them showing a black man in therapy for black man shit.

It was also nice to get an explanation for what the fuck happened in Princeton.

That's a REALLY fucked up way to lose a scholarship. I see why he was so ruderless for so long. Nigga was depressed and had no resources to deal with it.

(but him doing it to the random tsa person works even better of course)

That woman ruined something important to him, with not one thought of the consequences to him, his family, or her.

but she learned that day!

lol

>Shit caught be COMPLETELY by surprise. But on the real I
>LOVED them showing a black man in therapy for black man shit.
>
>It was also nice to get an explanation for what the fuck
>happened in Princeton.
>
>That's a REALLY fucked up way to lose a scholarship. I see why
>he was so ruderless for so long. Nigga was depressed and had
>no resources to deal with it.

This damn near could've been one of those midseason finales that shows will do now.

I loved it so much. The therapy sessions. The filling in the blank on Princeton did something for me. Thinking about how people treated him earlier in the show even after all of that hurts in a different way now too. And thinking of how that shit could impact you basically forever? Yeah...its a lot. And it makes sense that he'd be ready to roll out on all of those folks now that he can...especially Paper Boi, who he seems to be at least kinda 'over'.

I didn't 'know' it was Earn until he gave the lady the money.

Seeing crazy ass Tracy being crazy ass Tracy was wonderful. And yes, it let me think a 'reveal' of some sort was coming. But, I didn't think about it. I didn't even get that Earn was the guy when the lady said that she worked at the airport during the whole 'the service dog can't come in here' exchange. That's the hint I regret missing the most.

And real talk, I've been thinking about therapy for a while. There's enough things that I have filed under 'it sucks but get over it' that I probably need some work on to ACTUALLY be 'over' versus mind-fucking myself to 'act like I'm over it' when maybe I'm really not (work stuff, parents stuff, friendship stuff, regrets on decisions, etcetera).

>
>And real talk, I've been thinking about therapy for a while.
>There's enough things that I have filed under 'it sucks but
>get over it' that I probably need some work on to ACTUALLY be
>'over' versus mind-fucking myself to 'act like I'm over it'
>when maybe I'm really not (work stuff, parents stuff,
>friendship stuff, regrets on decisions, etcetera).
>
It so beneficial. It can be costly, but if you really out here trynna go, it's necesarry.

The filling in the
>blank on Princeton did something for me. Thinking about how
>people treated him earlier in the show even after all of that
>hurts in a different way now too.

When they stayed in some chicks apartment to do a show, then the next morning, she had thrown all their shit out on the quad...and Earn's laptop was missing.

remember how we went berserk and started pounding on the door and screaming to get his laptop?

in hindsight, he was definitely triggered from the Princeton incident...the writing and character development on this show is so excellent.

d

...I figured out where this was going. Well, actually I thought that things were going to go terribly wrong her (like her cursing out a kid or using a racial slur on camera) completely independent of Earn, and it was going to be karma catching up to her without Earn ever knowing about it.

>And if it cost you relatively nothing to pull off, why not?

He had to pay for all those actors and he had to pay to use that office space for that fake literary agent meeting I would imagine. I suppose he's doing that well for himself as an agent that the considerable cost didn't bother him.

As potential spiteful an individual I am (I'm more so someone that harbors grudges rather than look to outwardly try to spite folks on purpose), it was pretty cool how ultimately the 'victory' was an empty one that only Earn was able to celebrate. No one else in that bar cared about ruining that woman's life but him.

He appears to have a stable of artists he's now managing. Them 15%s start adding up, especially when you talking about Millions.

and some people act like the person is so pressed they would actually leave their house and physically act on their response..

well, Earn actually is that dude who would post about hating someone and went so far with it you really have to commend him for his dedication.

everyone else was like “you still talking about that shit?”

like when OKP’s used to say they took train rides to meet up and fight each other..

since this wasn't *just* about her ruining a big moment for him, but also how it relates to his trauma behind it to begin with.

Wonder when that's gonna come back around...

I found it interesting that Darius is the only dude he actually trusts.

but honestly, Darius is really out here trying to be an evolved human being. I appreciate what they've done with that character.

i'd imagine a lot of it comes from that episode (S1?) where Darius offers to turn his cell phone cash at pawn shop into $2K (via the sword, pitbull & pitbull breeding trading scheme)--and when Earn realizes at the end of that whole day, he still needs to wait months for the dogs to breed to get that money, and Darius winds up offering him his cell phone to get his original cash still that day?

(and then Darius comes through on his promise of the money a few episodes later, way after Earn probably forgot about it)

Darius is one of my favorite tv characters ever

God this show is great when it hits.

I really liked that ending to that episode, that line was great to me for him to make that distinction at that point.

I just had to come back to say it again.

It was good storytelling.

I was confused while watching (why was the Agent's secretary so rude? what does this woman have to do with anything? no way kids could be that mean and teachers didn't intervene?) and was well paid off by the ending.

Also think its a super relevant to internet cultural fights we have today.



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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

>I was confused while watching (why was the Agent's secretary
>so rude?

>Also think its a super relevant to internet cultural fights we have >today.

yupp

but I didnt see the connection till later lol

and the fallout/consequence that comes along with it.

this is i think the 3rd time he's hit this sort of thing. first with the mobbing of the tone-deaf asian girl at the party, then with liam neeson.

i don't know exactly what's Glover's intent but we purposely don't see what happens at the airport... and i realize the ep doesn't work if we did, but we do spend a good amount of time inside her world, and see her hopes, struggles, then her life destroyed. We see his friends being like damn, dude...

also i assumed she had a crush on her neighbor but given her airport persona, not so certain. dude better watch his back.

and i see why her friend didn't believe in her writing.

I think she did, on some level, but she’s also the type of person that can go from crush to hate if feelings aren’t reciprocated. She’d probably call the cops on him for something arbitrary if he continues to ignore her or if they have a bad interaction. People are weird like that.

>also i assumed she had a crush on her neighbor but given her
>airport persona, not so certain. dude better watch his back.

but had no idea it was the TSA lady.

When they showed her on TV at the bar I was like “wtf kinda reality show was this?”

but after the reveal by Earn the best thing about that episode was the last
line

“I need more therapy”

shit had me rolling. Earn is sick af, lol..

I've seen a few times on here and twitter folks holding out and thinking that maybe MF Doom's death announcement was an elaborate hoax that he was setting up for a future album. Can't say I am 100% sure he is truly dead.

And if we still thinking the show is deep, I guess the idea is that Earn and Van were lost in dating purgatory and Earn almost left her there but they left together, foreshadowing that their relationship is going to improve?



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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

n/m

Not that this is necessarily what precipitated it but he lived in Atlanta for a time, so ..

I knew when he didn’t show up with the kid, the kid was a wrap. Nigga got THEE worst luck.

They master the tragically comedic so well.

Post Humous grammy, = new spins PLUS if he pulls a suge knight, and releases chopped and screwed versions of studio outtakes he could be eating good off of that kid for a MINUTE.

“oh, you def winning a grammy tonight kid”

peace & blessings,

x.

www.twitter.com/poetx

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I'm an advocate for working smarter, not harder. If you just
focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
not having much to show for it. (c) mad

I’m talking about in terms of what is presented on-screen that we know happens to him across the 4 seasons, like this, burning up gas on a citywide scavenger hunt, getting jerked in the poker game, and getting his phone stolen by a person standing behind him last season.

At face value (on-screen presentation), the lil YWA seminar didn’t go into what to do when the YWA dies, despite real-world logic saying “just go get another one”.

Good Ep.

FOlks really do Hate Dasani.

I was thinking they could have ran through the YTAs.

I am thinking Akon and Lady Gaga. Dre and Eminen. Usher and Bieber. Anyone else?


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

Glover really ain't pulling no punches. I kinda feel like this was dig at little dickie too.

Rich Jewish upbringing....

I LOVE what he's doing here.

Yeah he was definitely coming at dicky. I can't believe I missed it.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

Who put him on?

indecent proposal 2022 shit.

al couldn't say no and hoed himself out for a mil.

then the kid really was like, whatever. the profound disrespect.


peace & blessings,

x.

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I'm an advocate for working smarter, not harder. If you just
focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
not having much to show for it. (c) mad

Bruh

>Bruh

situation when Earn crawled into that tunnel

"D'Angelo" knowing about Earn's ongoing dream was trippy

They brought up Blueblood again, I hope that continues to be a recurring thing for Al throughout the season

lol

The imagery must be pretty similar

Liam Neeson, Alex Skarsgaard. I just remembered that and I think that's part of the reason there was some hope throughout they got D to play himself.

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Life in the completeness of its unity is negative. (c) ABK

everything else was hilarious and spot on

was this supposed to be about signing the artist?

and why??

and did dude really put chicken skin on bread as a sandwich?

I’m sure this is all about signing shitty white artists vs signing a Black icon but they went somewhere else with it. Some John Malcovich type steez

I’m tempted to throw some on a piece of bread next time I get some bojangles

to go to further his career, IMO
I thought to myself, what does D’ represent to Ern
No way any agent would risk their career on signing D’ off a hairdresser’s co-sign
IMO, it was supposed to be ridiculous, especially for people familiar with D’s career and long hiatus
Ern literally said 5 minutes later…what is D’?
I found it hilarious, especially the notches on the wall
D’ symbolized Ern’s willingness to sacrifice everything to further his career
It wasn’t supposed to be literal, IMO.

... to avoid having to sell his soul to promote the racist white lady's book and things of that nature.

he gets out of that fucked up meeting by saying he thinks he can get D'Angelo, which they might not have even really expected of him, but he ends up spending days in that room lol committed to trying to sign him. Like sitting in that meeting would be shitty but it wouldn't have lasted that long! There are other angles but it's funny as an office joke almost.

The exaggerated D'angelo seclusion is funny, I really went back and forth on whether they might have got him lol the fact that he's playing videogames and the only thing we kinda know about him outside his album releases recently was his RDR2 enjoyment was cute. Was it a network of D'Angelos or just this one dude?

cause fuck that racist ass white lady.. lol.

I'm assuming that's part of the sacrifice joining a large agency
There's going to be problematic clients under that umbrella
Racist yt lady is 1 example

Based on your interpretation... he's in the wrong business then... right?

Just to clarify
Do ya'll really believe there's trap doors that lead to D's dressing room?
Or an escape door from an alternate reality of exes?

When Ern enters those portals, we're entering his subconscious.

last night's episode was a dud? Main reason being that there's no emotional connection or investment to Earn's family, at least on my part, to truly care about what happened last night.

It was somewhat cool the show brought Kat Williams back though.

I suppose it was also somewhat cool that there were no clear cut right or wrong persons in what went down since it did appear the grandfather wasn't totally aware of what was going down when Earn's mother 'kidnapped' him.

But it definitely felt like a filler episode. Definitely the worst episode so far.

My fam going through this exact same thing including the light skinned aunt controlling my grandfather, and my own father telling me last week he felt threatened by some teenagers messing with him on the train.

So its a gift and curse. If you can relate then it hit hard, if not then it probably did feel like a dud.

the hypocrisy of church folks
the dad just noping out of the whole affair
the kids disrespecting the dad (although I was really waiting for clay davis to slap the shit out of that skinny little piece of shit...)

All of this shit hit for me.

I loved it all.

when she came in the studio and kicked everyone out I was rolling.

“Did you hear that? they in EGYPT!!!l”

but between the way Pops & the waiter reacted I figured they just looked similar.

like him, to trigger Clay Davis's resentment at being disrespected earlier.

>the hypocrisy of church folks

>the dad just noping out of the whole affair

This was so beautiful. And I'm just old enough now to where I can remember my dad noping out AND I've already started noping out on certain stuff and I haven't even been married for a decade yet.

>the kids disrespecting the dad (although I was really waiting
>for clay davis to slap the shit out of that skinny little
>piece of shit...)
>
>All of this shit hit for me.
>
>I loved it all.

I'm in this line. It was a great ep for me.

And the 'disconnect'? I felt it, understood it, and I have lived with it at various times with various groups of people, family and otherwise.

I'm so glad this show exists and is willing to put this type of stuff 'out there'.

The deference to the elders no matter what stuff plays out very similarly in asian households too


I was dying when Earn and Al were walking and too scared to look back because holy shit I would do the exact same thing with my own aunts

Not all of the themes were meant for me of course. but the family stuff hit very close to home

In particular the female members. The women in my family basically run the whole thang. It's hilarious. All these grown ass men sitting around being quiet and not saying a damned thing cuz they already know...


This shit REALLY hit me.

by the time he passed she got all his money.

and everyone but my uncle and Dad were PISSED!!!

Uncle is caked up and my Dad was like “well, she finessed that shit, I can’t get mad at a dead person”

she high yellow too, lol.

You can see it coming a mile away

while her sisters playing checkers.

she stole her sisters man and married him back when they were younger.. and he ended up being trash, lol.

but she “got her man”’

and when we all get together its just snide comments and shade. I love it.

but the bitterness, the anger, the jokes, all that shit is my family and yes, its exhausting.

has a lightskinned aunt.

lol

lol

My favorite episodes have always been the ones that really speak to authentic black experiences. Like the prison episode, the first Katt Williams episode, and this one.

It just felt like that could have been any Southern Black Family Drama.

When it started it made me aware we don't see nothing about Earn's family on the show. I also get the vibes from Donald Glover he's the type of brother who is a bit embarrassed by his family. That came through in the episode, but he authentically addressed it and acknowledged it.

If you felt no emotional connection to Earn's family this far in the ep, this episode kind of explains why. This was good Earn backstory to me, just like the therapy episode.

I think the backstory eps are good but I do also feel like the show is running out of time, if there is to be some resolution/evolution for Earn. I feel like they are setting up Earn getting back with Van, but I hope they have proper build up for it given so few episode left.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

that’s my momma’s side on that bulllshit

ep was black as shit. all for the surreal/leave it up to interpretation stuff but favor his turns on more straightforward topics.

that isn't a bad thing it's interesting to see Earn's family interaction for once.

asked Earn's dad if he should let Earn manage him. I know its hard remember season 1 but it was literally one of the foundational scenes of the show. That was when the show was actually normal before they went off the deep end on the weird shit.

Given that we haven’t seen it much since season 1, it’s nice to see it for once

I forgot that was his mom and dad, lol..

on The Wire which is one of my favorite shows of all-time

but totally forgot it was Earn’s dad.

I caught it in the middle when he was walking thru the mall and was like “oh shit, Clay Davis up in this bitch”

automatically say “sheeeeeeeit” when I see him.

I loved the Paperboy part from last week, but I found the D'Angelo stuff too weird

not much to say on them, at least not like 3 days later lol

i liked this one a lot.

soon as he let that russian girl play him for the hat, it was all downhill.

>i liked this one a lot.
>
>soon as he let that russian girl play him for the hat, it was
>all downhill.

It was so beautiful to see it laid out in that way. And real talk, cute women at kiosks have been doing in dudes of all ages in the mall for like..forever. I remember buying some fingernail files, lotions and shit from a very fine young lady. And I was like 25, in shape, and running into the mall right quick to buy some clothes. I was looking upside her too hard, she saw me/called me on it, and it was over from there. Knowing what I know now, I should’ve legit tried to holler. Instead, I got more physical contact than was necessary, she got me to buy some files and random nail shit (that I eventually used the hell out of), and that was that.

And when she came with the secret hat!? That shit was too accurate. I loved it.

Those damn kiosk people are savage. These days they walk like 30 yards up and down getting people.

I treat them like the homeless when I have no change.

First time a woman did it, I was like “yup, still got it..” then she hit me with the sales pitch and burst my bubble

seen a disproportionate amount of them (men and women) over the last decade or so working kiosks (hair accessories, mini helicopters, etc). coulda been random but that particular casting had me thinking there was more to it i dont know about.

like Kardashianish type flavor..

>like Kardashianish type flavor..
>
>

Yep. The one who got me was something like that. Thick accent. Thick other stuff too. But not in a surgical/model/overly sculpted way. It was more in a southern/woke up like this one day and it didn't go away type way. AKA my favorite. I was enthralled.

>Those damn kiosk people are savage. These days they walk like
>30 yards up and down getting people.
>
>I treat them like the homeless when I have no change.

This the only way to do it.
>
>

Highlights:
The look on Earn's mom's face when she skrtted off with grandpa lol

Earn's dad instantly going from pure joy to terror once he realized he stayed at the mall too long. That whole scene had me feeling anxious.

Auntie: "you see....they in EGYPT"

And have really enjoyed this season so far.

Glad they got things back on track and are going out the right way.

“Nga you cheen!”

“I’ont wan play witchu no mo!”

fhwwwsmakaksksksk

The MacDonalds straight lock up the seating there from like 3-5pm to keep the kids from hanging out and acting up. They got a lady working there I swear must be a school teacher because she is so good at talking to the kids and keeping them settled (like the old teacher from Abbot Elementary) and she does it like its her full time job


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

Then they wonder why you eat in the fellowship hall like a fucking animal.

peace & blessings,

x.

www.twitter.com/poetx

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I'm an advocate for working smarter, not harder. If you just
focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
not having much to show for it. (c) mad

>

I have never ever ever ever ever ever forgotten.

BUT

This episode made it wildly clear for anyone who was, is, or has ever fronted. The getup with the boots? Clay Davis may as well could’ve been a static graphic at the bottom of my screen like the ‘toastyyyyy!’ Dude from Mortal Kombat. Of course, he’d be saying ‘shiiiiiiiiiiiied’ for the whole episode..low in the background..even during commercials.

cute. This and the last season I'm stunned by her whenever she's on screen.

I feel like you aren’t allowed to go at TP until your final season..

Black Hollywood Industry Rule #4080

when dude said “you have no money to support your child, you have an excon maintenance man love interest and a gun toting grandmother.. you are a Kirkland woman now”


“grits don’t work on me”

lmaoooooo

Big Willy Wonka? like, plausible denial on some, we were exaggerating / extrapolating?

"we'll fix it in post" was killing me.

"with the way Mr Chocolate works, she'll finish those 14 scenes by noon".

somebody who worked for mr chocolate was spilling hella tea.

peace & blessings,

x.

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focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
not having much to show for it. (c) mad

This episode is pretty wild though. Almost feels personal more so than criticizing Tyler Perry's art.

Must be pretty liberating to be comfortable enough to burn that Tyler Petty bridge so openly.

reminds me of the first episode of Meet the Paynes.

Wife and I were like “is his wife really going to be on crack?”

all while watching them flub lines, stutter and trip over shit and clearly give no fucks about reshooting scenes. Heard they were pumping out a ridiculous amount of episodes to get syndication in record time.

It's just that I'm surprised to see another artist dump on another artist so overtly. I don't want to give the impression that I like Tyler Perry or that I'm defending him.

joints. even my wife was like, wtf they doing? acting, writing, all that shit was irredeemable.

the glovers had the laser scope on that shit.


peace & blessings,

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Maaaan, that whole scene where that AD was like, "Post-production has been fighting that we address it in pre."

Talk about TRIGGERED!

Didn't matter it was a blocking shot. Moving on, deal with it later.

scenes"

baby girl had the damn VISITOR tag on while she was on the steps.

i was watching this whole ep, dumbfounded, like they really did this.


peace & blessings,

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not having much to show for it. (c) mad

Peace,

Spirit (Alan)
http://wutangbook.com

translated into words. that was brilliant.

peace & blessings,

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not having much to show for it. (c) mad

All the bits hit crazy hard. I'm honestly shocked they went in like they did.

I'm almost afraid to watch the next ep. lol

I can't get that phrase out my head.

The outtakes for that scene must be out of this world.

and then ole girl al greened him and fam said he was Immune to grits.

i lost it.


peace & blessings,

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I'm an advocate for working smarter, not harder. If you just
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not having much to show for it. (c) mad

I probably liked that movie more than I should’ve

but its been so long.

That is where that line is from?

Does the movie hold up well?

i even started second guessing myself, is it really just 'a grit' in some situations??? lol


i wonder if there will be an explanation for the really far out things that have happened in the show or if we just gotta explain it ourselves.

how he just BODIED the last 10 minutes or so of this episode

This felt like more of a character out of Community or his old sketch show than anything we've seen before in Atlanta

This EP reminded me of the Teddy Perkins episode but way less morbid

this shit.

which is itself hilarious, because BET or NAACP would not EVER give them an award for *this* episode and risk angering Mr Chocolate.

>how he just BODIED the last 10 minutes or so of this episode
>

he really did.

>This felt like more of a character out of Community or his old
>sketch show than anything we've seen before in Atlanta
>
>This EP reminded me of the Teddy Perkins episode but way less
>morbid

that was an excellent episode. this was kinda dark, too, just differently. but mr chocolate coulda done some shit to them kids if he wanted to with all the power he had.

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I'm an advocate for working smarter, not harder. If you just
focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
not having much to show for it. (c) mad

Do y’all find it FUNNY. like laugh out loud funny. The show is clever, and delivers some thought provoking content. But I feel like they abandoned the comedic value of the show in favor of compelling story telling like 2 seasons ago. Seasons 1-2, I felt comfortable telling people Atlanta was a comedy sitcom everyone should check for.

I can’t describe it that way anymore. If I put a friend on to the show, they might get “Get Out” or the Black Eyes Wide Shut, or some other random shit that you weren’t mentally prepared to tune in for when you signed up for some belly laughs.

piano all crazy cranking out plots.

like if he was playing a nice jazz song or something, ok, but dude was just clanking discordant ass random keys, just like the scripts be.

>Do y’all find it FUNNY. like laugh out loud funny. The
>show is clever, and delivers some thought provoking content.
>But I feel like they abandoned the comedic value of the show
>in favor of compelling story telling like 2 seasons ago.
>Seasons 1-2, I felt comfortable telling people Atlanta was a
>comedy sitcom everyone should check for.

the comedy is a bit understated this season for sure. and there's a lot of subtle shit. more often than not i'm looking at the screen w/ my jaw dropped.

>
>I can’t describe it that way anymore. If I put a friend on
>to the show, they might get “Get Out” or the Black Eyes
>Wide Shut, or some other random shit that you weren’t
>mentally prepared to tune in for when you signed up for some
>belly laughs.
>

yeah. they really been on some different type shit. it's more surrealist social commentary with some comedic moments and a healthy dose of wtf mixed in.
>
>
>


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focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
not having much to show for it. (c) mad

The “Target” being looted was actually the Macy’s/Rich’s at Greenbriar. Just internally hilarious when I can pinpoint where they are.

The killer wheelchair lady.

Like I said above, I’ve been lost in the Atlantic Station parking deck multiple times.

It’s funny on a very specific note.

Rick Moranis is the guy from “Honey I Shrunk the Kids”.

Ep 3 is still the one for me. But I tend to like the rap business heavy episodes the best.

when it wants to be funny it's funny as fuck
when it wants to be thought provoking it nails that too

it lands damn near everything it tries

i cant ask for anything else

n/m

>when it wants to be funny it's funny as fuck
>when it wants to be thought provoking it nails that too
>
>it lands damn near everything it tries
>
>i cant ask for anything else

Yep. I let them write the show. I watch the show and look super hard at Van every chance I get. I don't really 'expect' anything per se. It works for me and Van is sprinkling the steaks/Marv Albert 'YES'/John Madden 'BOOM!'/Mike Breen 'BANG!' good looking to me so I'm doing great.

Yes, I want to know 'what happens to them' ultimately. But I trust them to tell me what they want me to know when they want me to know it. Like them waiting the whole season to make it clear that Earn was living in a storage unit...excellent!

characters from the start and know all the backstories it can be hard to follow

and there is nothing wrong with that..

It started with an obvious story and slowly turned into a show where you can turn it on, not watch any other episodes and still be entertained. There will be some “wtf.. wow, that’s crazy.. what is this show called again and whats it about?” moments and if you go back you will probably be like “this a whole different ass show” lol

Atlanta to me is a show where every week I’m like “where they going and what they doing”

but the real joy is watching it with my wife who doesn’t follow the show. Her reactions are comical and confirm that what he is doing works.. just dont ask questions or demand clear answers. Just watch it and enjoy the madness.

..what if its been on that Seinfeld path (or greater) all along and most people never noticed until after the pandemic painted a different perspective?


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I need to go back

the barber episode was the only one were I prolly cracked a rib laughing out loud.

that shit was gold.

and the comedian that played the barber was like “I thought I would have a few lines and I show up and he’s like.. the whole episode is about you!”

and that’s Atlanta. Little slices of moments in time and turning what could be 5 minutes into 45 minutes. Like I said above, its like a Black ass Seinfield now for me.

prolly smoking weed and saying “remember that time when..”

and then they dive deeper and turn it into an episode.

..with a new lens.

>prolly smoking weed and saying “remember that time when..”
>
>
>and then they dive deeper and turn it into an episode.

it gets deeper when you realize that some of those convos started on this site. The archives are hilarious for this.


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Like I kept waiting for them in the first season to return to the gun charges from the first episode.

Now I enjoy it as an anthology series knowing I am going to like more stories more than others. It was also a good strategy to release two seasons so close together because I think if they waited for ever to drop a 10 episode season I think the stakes would be that much higher for every episode to be perfect.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

"Wackiest" performance in the entire series and made me laugh.

I got a good amount of laughs from the first few eps:

Wheel Chair lady chasing Darius
Katt Williams & Earn's family in general
Tracy showing up again

The humor is less broad now, but it's still VERY funny to me. I don't know how anyone can watch the last episode and not see that.

Black people are not a monolith and there are plenty of black folks who are underserved in art and in media.

I appreciate that I can go to a show like this and not have to expect or want slapstick shit. There's layers to this shit that go beyond just "was it funny enough".

We do that with too much shit and miss out on stuff.

A few eps ago Paperboi was worried about his longevity.

Now he's too rich to cut the cord.

Seemed like he was done making music, or at least no one was checking for him.

Now he got mumblerappers trynna get him on they shit.

I wonder if this was actually meant to be the original sequence of episodes.

I bet that terrible song gon be a hit.

the sneaker kiss had me dying

“there’s only 1,000 of them on earth”

nigga was ready!!!

i loved this episode lol

dude finally agrees to do the kiss and the guy gets shot lol i thought they were just going to walk out of the van with the shoes and we wouldnt see them kiss.

darius seems like hes down for whatever, a kiss is no thing for him.

>A few eps ago Paperboi was worried about his longevity.
>
>Now he's too rich to cut the cord.
>
>Seemed like he was done making music, or at least no one was
>checking for him.
>
>Now he got mumblerappers trynna get him on they shit.
>
>I wonder if this was actually meant to be the original
>sequence of episodes.
>
>I bet that terrible song gon be a hit.

I’m a sucker for spoof songs. And the way he finally got him on the song was too perfect for this show. And he just had the track at the ready to play for him in the car!? Bwahahahhahahahhahahaha!

I took the ep you’re talking about as more of a ‘you’re hot enough but don’t think your shit is gonna last forever ever. Cuz it is not’.

>I took the ep you’re talking about as more of a ‘you’re
>hot enough but don’t think your shit is gonna last forever
>ever. Cuz it is not’.

I read it the same way. Kinda like a "yea you're still hot now but prepare for a future when you're not" thing.

I remember Uzi and a Jacuzzi. It all happened so fast.

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It was the others that were telling him he was done.

Just that he was on the back 9 of his career and fighting for relevance a bit, but still had juice.

I also don't think "worrying about his longevity" means that he's no longer rich.

like he said in the white avatar episode

but like dude said “these young kids, do they know who you are?”

that shit wont last forever…

and yeah, he aint broke. He still got “ Young Yodel Boy” money coming in for the next 5 years.

it felt a bit out of place in this season.

to the point that the opening dialogue gave me a strong sense of deja vu and i thought i might have been watching a re-airing for a while.

Season 1


https://streamable.com/6npgsd

This was my favorite EP so far this season


Sneaker dude forcing Earn and Darius to kiss only to get shot immediately was hilarious

..the show may appear to be random, but its far from that.

They don't waste a single line of dialogue.



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..and miles to go before i sleep...

..the show may appear to be random, but its far from that.

They don't waste a single line of dialogue.



*skatin' the rings of saturn*


..and miles to go before i sleep...

How are you a rich rapper (anywhere really but ESPECIALLY in Atlanta) and you don't have a gun handy?

He heard a strange noise in the crib and he leaves. No gun in the living room or kitchen

And then goes to a.......shopping mall? Where you still don't have one?

Solid ep overall but that part just didn't add up to me

but I thought the same thing. Why you going to a mall?!

Go to a movie theatre and lay low

Nice to see Earn “earn” her trust but ionno, that exchange kinda bothered me.

Earn: “I can have someone in LA”

I was like noooo, dont say that

V: “I don’t want you to love me as her mother”

ugh, do you really believe that?


I know people want to hear when they need to hear but did his answer really convince you or has his actions convinced you and you just needed words to solidify it?

why does love have to be so hard? lol

but a whole episode?

>but a whole episode?

instead of the far out fake deep shit

I was glad to spend an episode furthering that storyline. And hopefully the final episodes are a little more ... I dunno, exciting ? For lack of a better term.

>I was glad to spend an episode furthering that storyline. And
>hopefully the final episodes are a little more ... I dunno,
>exciting ? For lack of a better term.

last week wasn't enough action for you? its called balance lol

I understand that it's a balance and appreciate it, as I said. I think the show does a great job of covering all bases in that regard.

I just don't think 3 more somber episodes would be in line with the show's overall tone and feel, is all I was saying. They can interject some of those moments with the regular weirdness/avante garde funny shit like they normally do, IMO.

But I don't mean to overstate it - I don't have any expectations for the final eps. And I know that whatever direction they go, they'll nail it. Was just saying I don't *think* they would go in that direction for the rest of the season.

love seeing that reaction

like she could feel the tension the whole trip and she finally saw them break thru

>love seeing that reaction

yeah man

>like she could feel the tension the whole trip and she finally
>saw them break thru


kids deserve a happy 2 parent home.


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>Nice to see Earn “earn” her trust but ionno, that
>exchange kinda bothered me.
>
>Earn: “I can have someone in LA”
>
>I was like noooo, dont say that

I hear you but part of the reason relationships are so hard is because of insecurities. It's refreshing (it's a TV show, I know) when a couple can be straightforward and honest about what they both know damn well deep down is the truth. The worst relationships I ever had (and I imagine I'm not alone) were those where my sig other (or me, at times) had this fairytale idea of love and relationships and expected that I'd never even glance in another girl's direction again. Or talk about past relationships. Or consider the future with objectivity instead of blind idealism.

Anyway more specific to the episode, I actually think what he said helped to convince her and I thought he said it in the right tone and worded it well. I'd have had your reaction had he been like "girl you know I got money and can get whoever I want but I want you" or some alpha shit like that lol.


>V: “I don’t want you to love me as her mother”
>
>ugh, do you really believe that?
>
>
>I know people want to hear when they need to hear but did his
>answer really convince you or has his actions convinced you
>and you just needed words to solidify it?
>
>why does love have to be so hard? lol

I was just worried about how he started it off

Usually that is when a woman cuts a dude off.

.

>I was just worried about how he started it off
>
>Usually that is when a woman cuts a dude off.

and i'm so glad they didn't write it that way because how they wrote it is what candid, truthful conversations look like. people who have the courage to be vulnerable talk like that. people who want to truly know other people LISTEN like that. i love that they showed that.

i see what Donald is doing in this last season...he's giving us How to Do Therapy, How to Do Family, How to Do Relationships...basically How to Mature as an Adult.

d


"i do more for both our communities than you'll ever know." - Heinz
"But rest assured, in my luxurious house built on the backs of people darker than me, I am sipping fine scotch and scoffing at how stupid you are." - bshelly

The "Van Episode" from last season was rushed, and relied on gimmicks and surreal stuff to tell Van's story and I ultimately didn't buy it. Didn't connect to anything real (all of a sudden we learn Van is suicidal?!?! Where did that come from)

I love the bare bones, 4 characters, all set outdoors episode. The most expensive thing in the episode was probably that Sade song. When it started my wife's thought it was a strange song choice. By the end it was clear why they chose that song.

It was good to see Van and Earn getting along. But it was also clear that they were being ultra polite. Trying to do the best thing for their daughter. The episode felt sad and somber. You ever been out with someone with the plan of breaking up with them at some point on that date? That's what it felt like.

I'm like Legs and I kinda hated what Earn led with in the tent. It ain't Jodeci to lead with I can have anyone I want. But as I thought about it was real. The problem with professing love like 90s R&B lyrics is that it can seem shallow and fake and just the things you are supposed to say. Nothing we've seen in the show to date suggest Earn would talk like that.

Van did a good job of showing her vulnerability from their last confrontation (I played the table tennis scene for my wife after this episode to remind her when they last spoke on it). She made Earn work. Earn it. I think a lot of women would have been happy just that he asked, or wanted to be a good dad and have a family. She was in her right to want more. Where she was coming from made perfect sense.

For the entire season them having a child seemed a throwaway. Never saw her, never really impacted the story, this season is the first season she had lines. I think Glover didn't have children when the show started. The little girl barely had 10 lines, but she was centered. She didn't do much this episode but that smile at the end was the whole thing. Kids can feel parents dynamics and you can be polite as you want around them, but they know when something is off. Her characters quietness and somberness through out the season was by design. And her smile at end was a sign a corner had been turned in Earn and Van's relationship.

That Sade song though. That Best of Sade use to be my go to SMASH CD so it was just a great choice for me. Earn was literally on his knees for Van in that tent. Love is definitely stronger than pride.

Yes it was a slow episode. But this relationship is central to the show and they needed to take their time to resolve (just like they need to take their time to deal with Paperboi dealing with his mom's death). They did what they needed to do.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

She didn't seem excited about the idea, didn't seem to enjoy it. Only thing she was happy about was catching whatever she caught lol

Definitely a change of pace. I think it was good for the story but it probably could have been done better. I also agree that it could have worked better as the final episode.

I'm sure there are reasons to call this episode good, but it was just boring

had me with the C'mon son face numerous times.

and people were eating human hands

Nah this was zzzzzzzz

I think that I will always rewatch seasons 1, 2, and 4. It’s some of the best TV I’ve ever seen.

Season 3 is like Nastradamus. I’ll be good with just ignoring that it ever happened.

was mad authentic to me.... i could relate to a lot of it....

This was both a "breather" episode while at the same time greatly advancing the story.


Glad to see things going well for Van and Earn, but a lot can still happen in these last 3 episodes

Slow paced “breather” episodes can be hurt by commercials when watching live IMO. But when you can skip the commercials it really helps.

I don’t know….I always like slow episodes when it’s characters that I like just talking. Glad that surreal, weird shit hasn’t taken over the show this season. Sad that it’s almost over, but am really looking forward to the last 3 episodes.

..this show is going for the jugular.

Reading some of the criticism expressed in this thread might have you believe we're watching completely different shows. That's the beauty of interpretation. Say what you want about their approach, they recreated the mood of the score damn-near line for line. If you've ever truly spent time alone with your thoughts and this song, it's almost impossible to ignore.

•style
•character development
•depth
•pacing
•range
•writing

This series has everything. Well-timed cameos sprinkled about, and as previously stated: not one line wasted. They've taken chances some clearly wouldn't, and still nailed it. Intelligent, witty, uncompromising, and sometimes uncomfortable art.

All of this in a sitcom.



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I'm in this line. I'm excited for the last 3 episodes.

Mostly, I just trust these folks to finish this show without feeling like they need to baby anyone with how they get to 'the end' they want to have. There could be time jumps, flashbacks, or both and I wouldn't be shocked at all.

I know I have basically no expectations, so I see it like I'm set to be pleased. AKA I'm not thinking 'oh, Earn and Van better make it'. Or 'They better not kill Paper Boi'.

>..this show is going for the jugular.
>
>Reading some of the criticism expressed in this thread might
>have you believe we're watching completely different shows.
>That's the beauty of interpretation. Say what you want about
>their approach, they recreated the mood of the score damn-near
>line for line. If you've ever truly spent time alone with your
>thoughts and this song, it's almost impossible to ignore.
>
>•style
>•character development
>•depth
>•pacing
>•range
>•writing
>
>This series has everything. Well-timed cameos sprinkled about,
>and as previously stated: not one line wasted. They've taken
>chances some clearly wouldn't, and still nailed it.
>Intelligent, witty, uncompromising, and sometimes
>uncomfortable art.
>
>All of this in a sitcom.
>
>
>
>*skatin' the rings of saturn*
>
>
>..and miles to go before i sleep...

"i do more for both our communities than you'll ever know." - Heinz
"But rest assured, in my luxurious house built on the backs of people darker than me, I am sipping fine scotch and scoffing at how stupid you are." - bshelly

fam.

..the utter brilliance (and balls) to take on the giant that is Disney.

Tom Washington must be added to the "little known black history facts" roll call.




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Isn't Donald Glover technically a part of the Disney brand as result of him working or having worked on one of the Star Wars movies or shows? My memory could be off, but I vaguely remember him missing time for the show because he was filming a Star Wars show or movie.

Not saying this wasn't an interesting episode, but I'm not sure if he was taking Disney on per say.

The timing of this with Black Panther II coming out soon is pretty funny, especially with the huge amount of adverts for the movie.

I didn't really look at it as taking in Disney but I'm pretty curious about behind the scenes talks on this one

and I wonder if its cause they haven’t put him in anything else..

or if its a wink wink moment and Disney is in on it.

Maybe the least interesting of the entire series.

I can watch this later because I’m not in the mood for a bunch of confessions and interviews right now.

I hope its good but yeah, I’ll wait a few on that one, I wasn’t in the mood for that type of ep at the moment.

follow the show

my wife watched with me and thought it was a real documentary so I didn’t tell her it was Atlanta

“who ordered the white rice” had us crying..

“he went to a cookout, did the research, he said the wrong thing and got fucked up but he’s going to draw better”

and when they found his shoes and it was in the shape of Goofy’s shoes.. lmao.

shit was still boring overall but my wife’s reaction was hilarious. When she asked about the documentary and I told her it was Atlanta… lmao.

and see people wax poetic about how brilliant it was

just in about the most roundabout way possible

made fun of for "acting white" growing up
got recruited into 30 Rock as a writer via a diversity program
making "the blackest movie ever" in Goofy = him making Atlanta

also it's just funny as hell to see the headcanon of goofy being a black movie actually brought to the screen like this.

and how we watch the Disney Once Upon a Christmas with the kids every year and always point out how Goofy is a great single father.. lol

His son Max comes home from college with his girlfriend too..

Now I’m interested in the story arc of Goofy and Max.

"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"

if Goofy is the blackest Disney movie why wouldn’t Glover think he made the Blackest TV show ever? lol

Not sure what it is but I think given who we thought Glover was before Atlanta this show is black af.

Still remember DG saying he was shocked when The Weeknd were like “we didn’t know if you were a nigga nigga” when they were on tour together. DG was like.. I’m from Atlanta and these dudes from Canada are questioning my Blackness.

makes me wonder if it motivated him to make Atlanta Black af.

It was probably worst for me because I've never seen the Goofy Movie.

Whole episode felt like an inside joke I didn't get that lasted too long.

No interest at all.
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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

>Whole episode felt like an inside joke I didn't get that
>lasted too long.

they pull this bullshit. SMH.

something that would have fit in perfectly in season 3. i can understand complaints about it being boring. i felt like we just kept waiting for the punchline. maybe the shoes at the end were it. one of those episodes where you laugh inside. not my favorite episode but i didn't mind it.

And all the effort they put into it for some characters we'll never see again.

Sad to see Sinbad not looking too well.

But it was good to see him finally.

I watch A Different World reruns just cause..

so to see him in that shape hurt.

I must have missed the news. Did he have a stroke?

before that he was doing a podcast with his kids since the pandemic had live comedy locked down. I think this is really his first "public" appearance since. Glad I got to see him a bunch of times live in the past.

:-(

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

https://blacknerdproblems.com/20-years-ago-a-goofy-movie-became-the-blackest-most-underrated-nerd-classic-of-all-time/

Is Goofy Movie the blackest most underrated Disney movie of all time!

Almost reads like Glover used it for the episode. I don’t think I have ever watched it but every time Goofy and Max have a story on a Disney movie its always touching and shows Goofy being a great dad.

I mean.. check this joint out. Max’s GF got the Halle cut.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=myOvj3oXoks

"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"

bingo, this makes a lot of sense to me.

Shit, I actually thought about digging into the credits to see if this dude existed..

until they showed the Goofy shoes as evidence, lol

but I was definitely wondering if there was a real backstory to the Goofy movie/character.

I feel like they're really mailing it in down the stretch.

You calling it boring ?

Given how divergent they have been to a certain extent from the main characters and added with the fact these are the last batch of episodes, so I'm sure standards are higher for the episodes to deliver. The phrase mailing it in conveys a level a laziness or lack of effort in my eyes which I don't think is fair. I can easily see why folks wouldn't like these last two for sure.

Earn and Van in love and headed to LA
Paperboy on a safe farm

I predict Darius will end up bartering for an hour on the last episode.

Yeah.. this is not the ending I was expecting.

>Earn and Van in love and headed to LA
>Paperboy on a safe farm
>
>I predict Darius will end up bartering for an hour on the last
>episode.
>
>Yeah.. this is not the ending I was expecting.

That's where my head is. Everyone is getting a finale basically? Whatever, I'll trust them.

I JOKED that they'd kill Paperboi. Shit got dark for a minute on that safe farm! And duh, I love that Earn is like 'Be careful, farms is dangerous man!' AFTER all of the shit Paperboi went through.

he would be stuck under the tractor till after dark and the pigs would eat him lol.

Hope the whole crew is in the finale though. Those are always the best episodes.

But if they’re going to have an episode with only one main character in it - I generally like Alfred’s episodes the best.

good or bad

Ha ha.

Good episode.

Everytime Al is in the woods/wilderness, stuff be happening to him.

I’m going to miss Al more than anyone.

Maybe a bit of a stretch to make a full episode out of it. I liked that he actually got a "safe" farm but I just kept waiting for more. I did start expecting for him to die, that would have had a different impact. Watching S3 and early S4 I thought there was a big vision that they would circle back to and hit us with towards the end. Doesn't really seem that way anymore. I thought last weeks episode was actually going to tie together some things.

I feel like this and the camping episode would have worked better if there was a b-story on each episode that they would cut to.

called Christina's World

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78455

"Wyeth’s neighbor Anna Christina Olson inspired the composition, which is one of four paint­ings by Wyeth in which she appears. As a young girl, Olson developed a degenerative muscle condition—possibly polio—that left her unable to walk. She refused to use a wheelchair, preferring to crawl, as depicted here, using her arms to drag her lower body along. “The challenge to me,” Wyeth explained, “was to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless.”"

"i do more for both our communities than you'll ever know." - Heinz
"But rest assured, in my luxurious house built on the backs of people darker than me, I am sipping fine scotch and scoffing at how stupid you are." - bshelly

thats all ima say.

He got what he wanted from his career in the end. He won a grammy and is doing arena shows. Financially set.

There was always more to Al as a character than aspiring rapper. My favorite Al moments are his facial expressions showing the ridiculousness of the situations. It felt like he was breaking the fourth wall at times and connecting directly with us the viewer. "Do you see what's going on here" lol

In the end, the thing he wanted most was to be left alone and feel safe in his own skin. The wide open spaces of the farm gives him that opportunity.

this has been the most important t.v. experience for me since the Wire.

from sliding out of it right before to finding that rat (was it something else?) to being so happy that he got it working. probably my favorite parts of the episode.

what was the song that played when he was riding the tractor?

Even in Darkness wasn't mind-blowing, but it's definitely an under-appreciated album.

be talked about more.

I popped when that song came on

>In the end, the thing he wanted most was to be left alone and
>feel safe in his own skin. The wide open spaces of the farm
>gives him that opportunity.
>
exactly!!!

a really poignant moment for me, which was truly the whole cruxx of his journey, was the moment when he answered Earn's call. Remember, he'd been avoiding that call before...not interested in being checked on or bothered etc etc

But in that moment, he wanted to take the call...to get help or to exclaim about what he'd just been through...but then once he heard Earn's voice, he decided different.

in that split second he decided that he was fine..that he'd survived and that he was choosing this life. that there would probably not be another day worse than that one.. he didn't want Earn's help, sympathy, pity or concern. He no longer needed to be "managed" or rescued...he chose that in that moment.

It was so perfect. He downplayed everything...and then the next day (or whenever), he was able to enjoy Earn's company by phone but still insist that he's good...they were connecting in a way we hadn't seen in a long time. Al was finally truly happy.

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"i do more for both our communities than you'll ever know." - Heinz
"But rest assured, in my luxurious house built on the backs of people darker than me, I am sipping fine scotch and scoffing at how stupid you are." - bshelly

..lol at anyone complaining about getting finale eps for each main character to wrap up the series.

This ep was worth it for the cinematography, let alone Al's expressions.




*skatin' the rings of saturn*


..and miles to go before i sleep...

And devoting an entire episode to each actually allows time to let Stories play out and show us rather than tell us.


Looking forward to seeing Darius' ending

Like that's the thing that has hung unresolved through out the whole series.

Even a good cry would feel like some sort of closure.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

I’m watching and appreciating..

but its still boring

In the last 3 episodes, 2 were shot almost completely outdoors (which is much cheaper to shoot) with 2 or 3 actors and one was a fake documentary that looks like they literally shot in the FX breakroom.

I guess I am just glad they got a final season. Is there a TV show casts with more actors in Marvel/Star Wars Movies?

Besides starring him, this was a very Al-type episode. Dude is a loner. I think the big takeaway is that dude doesn't know how, or is incapable of, asking for help. Hits for black men.

It would be a great bottle episode, hate to think of it as the send off for his character.

The season started with the gang altogether, I hope it ends with the same.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

or was that just foreshadowing for that Goofy episode?

good call

That's unfortunate if that was the case. I assumed the show had strong ratings given the primetime slot it always got.

Which I like

And directs at TP and his fans

Atlanta: is Judge Judy thick

Lmao god I’m going to miss this. Black and Japanese fusion = Hiro and Glover

more like the end of season 4 and they thought they were getting another season

Donald Glover ending things by warning against accepting "salty and fried" depictions of Black culture, or approximations of Black culture created by white people. That's very much in keeping with his world view throughout the series and in interviews.

Plus, you finally got some hints into Darius' background, and parts of why he is how he is. I'm not even sure if they'd mentioned his last name before this episode.

And I honestly don't think there would be anywhere to go with another season. Assuming all of this was "real," (which wasn't really the point) Paperboi is successful and at least at some sort of peace, Earn and Van are moving out to LA, and Darius is Darius.

yeah.. this wasn’t enough to satisfy me but it is what it is

The ambiguous ending with whether or not Darius is about to go to jail is kind of similar to the "Did Tony get killed?" Convo


I thought this was a really funny episode and gave us glimpses of Darius' family life and his former life before the show started

The concept works as a finale but I think it is missing something. I'm split on ending on not knowing what was real and what wasn't. If there are nods to it from the beginning besides the obvious surreal scenes then it hits harder.

I do think with how last season went the concept for this being the end makes sense. I enjoyed most episodes and overall I'm good with it.

He was seeking an escape from that grief all this time. throughout the show we saw Darius sort of float in and out of situations.

All of the moments when he was withdrawn or off in his own world were really him processing the loss of his family. There was a rhyme and reason to what appeared to be a character giving us hilarious non-sequitors.

The quirkiness and just oddball nature of the character is actually tragic in the end. I feel like I got to see the world through Darius' eyes for the first time. And now i want to go back and rewatch through this lens.

I always hated that they gave his character that background. I kind of always saw it there when I saw him on screen.

But that's enough trauma to last for a lifetime.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

We needed a black weird show.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

and I can’t stop comparing it to Seinfeld and how that had so many hilarious episodes but the finale missed the mark.

Personally.. I think folks are being a bit too kind to this ending.

Popeyes and thick Judge Judy inception ending?

umm.. okay.

>We needed a black weird show.
>
>
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>"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then
>they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson
>
>"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

I liked it too. I went into it assuming something 'weird' was gonna happen. CHECK!

Finding out some stuff about Darius was great. The way they got to it was fun too. I DO want to go back and watch some other episodes knowing what I 'know' now about these characters.

And I was glad to see them together after the 'separate endings' teases. And they left it open enough that they could come back to it someday and then REALLY piss people off with any kind of 'look ahead' storytelling they go with.

I can’t ask for more than that.

The ending scene - I felt like it was true to how the show was written throughout it’s run, so I have no problem with it.

Like someone mentioned, we really did resolution for all the characters and Darius got the backstory and focus that also made him the linchpin for the show.

They really didn't need to explain all the surreal stuff we have seen all series but they did which is kind of a bonus.


But then, I loved the sopranos ending and thought the Insecure ending was too cookie cutter.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

Grand opening \ weak closing

Felt like a classic Atlanta episode. A basic slice of life episode.

It got the whole cast back together.

Had some good laughs. Darius punching Sushi Farrakhan reminded me of when Tracy stole on dude at the pajama jam lol

Usually I don't like the it was all a dream endings. They usually feel like cheap cop outs. But I liked it here because it fits a lot of the surrealism sprinkled throughout the show (invisible cars, teddy perkins)

Overall, I was happy with the ending.

I really liked most of them. I really liked them a lot. I guess it could be a feeling of "this isn't what I signed up for." and I get that.

That being said, how often do Black folks get to be the center of absurdist comedy? That shit was ground breaking for me, not to mention our existence in America is by and large absurd. To me what we go through is perfect for this kind of mining.

Darius the only one I didn't get a clear "Happily Ever After" vibe from.

I'm sure Darius, with all his tips and tricks, plus the money he earned while fucking with Paperboi has enough money to set himself up in a middle class neighborhood and not work.

OR

He didn't, and now he has to go back to hustlin'

Shit could be REALLY good. Also, he's the best character to marry to two sides of the series, the absurd and the grounded, because he's both.

AND

He's the character we all know the least about, no to mention widely regarded as everyone's favorite character.

Somebody make this happen.