FX & Donald Glover present Atlanta Season 2: Atlanta Robbin' Season

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It's a great show. People want it to be a certain way, but it's structured as one that has a very slow burning fuse. Even as wack as the van episodes are, they still further her character development by miles everytime time they pop up. Hopefully, it's all going to lead to a huge culmination of events within the next two following seasons. I'm enjoying it all in the meantime so, i can wait.
 

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I wonder when we’ll get season 3. I’m not sure if it’s been renewed yet.
 

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That IG chick was dropping some gems tho :ehh:.....she's obviously been around alot of rappers to know what a rap star is supposed to be like. Paperboi robbed himself having a cool ass female that was putting effort into upgrading him so he can reach the next level. I understand Paperboi not wanting to be fake and keep it real but I think him being an old upcoming rapper makes him out of touch of alot of things going on today. Social Media is a very important tool no matter how fake it is.

You're going to have to play the game no matter what to reach the top. Pape has to sell his soul to make it out the slums or his soul is going to be taken by these hungry wolves in the streets :yeshrug:.


That Homeless dude was the angel on one shoulder & the devil on Paperboy's other shoulder.


Great EP
 

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Keeping it real is a term that is people use when it benefits them.

What does keeping it real even mean anymore? A pic of Paper Boi all bloodied up and dingy is real, but a pic of him kicking it with home girl getting his feet done isn't?

She was going to fabricate their relationship, but the irony of those interactions was intriguing. She was "keeping it real" with some of what she was talking about, we'll have to see what Al takes and applies in his life going forward
 
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Deep episode, man. Really highlights that Paper Boi has been battling depression this whole time since his mother's passing (we've seen hints but after this episode it really makes you look back at him in a different light this whole time).
Refresh my memory, when did they talk about his moms passing? Season 1?
 

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Refresh my memory, when did they talk about his moms passing? Season 1?
When you look at how mad Al is when he says that Earn hadn't spoken to him since his mom's funeral, then you see how her loss still weighs on him and he shares it with no one, we start to get the picture.

Here's a bit from Medium about it
Atlanta tackled depression beautifully in this episode, but if you take a closer look, they’ve been unfolding this storyline for a while now. Al’s apathetic behavior towards everything from his relationships to his career, to even his phone, has been a major trait in his character this season. It’s easy to miss, what with black men often portrayed and perceived as — and expected to be — stoic, uncomplicated, and unfeeling. Alfred’s aloofness and nonchalance usually makes great for his comedic delivery, and is not necessarily taken as a sign of sadness; but depression doesn’t always look like a bawling fit. It can be very quiet and still.

From his mom's call for him to get up, echoed later on by the dude when he's literally and proverbially lost in the woods.
 

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Regarding his finances, he's way down, he lost all his re'up, and I think he said he just came off a loss, when that happened. But, the money is there, (for him to get) he's just lost in a depressive kind of state, look at his house in the first scene. I remember living like that when I was like 19, trap house, sleeping on the couch, spending all my time drunk and high, putting in on $5 pizza's when I felt like eating, you feel stuck.

"Sometimes in the trap you can feel trapped...." 'Starlito
 
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