FX's Donald Glover Sitcom "Atlanta" Season 1 thread
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No doubt "Atlanta" would have been great on HBO!
at the "Sauce"
I remember reading a Village Voice interview about 4 years ago with Donald talking about this show. So much time went by I thought FX scrapped it but damn did he deliver on his vision. I felt like I could fit right in with Earn, Paper, and Darius. Everything felt real and relatable.
What struck me was the dark moments wedged between the jokes.
-Bite this sandwich
-Don't let me down
-The crazy guy's screams after the cop clubbed him
-Kids playing with the toy gun
-"Gay" dude threatening to stab the old dude.
-Batman mask
If y'all watched Bino's videos directed by Hiro Murai they always have that creepy element and they brought that to Atlanta.
I'm wondering what happened with the shooting because Paperboy was looking nervous at the wing spot? It didn't go down how the waiter thought it did.
What happened at Princeton?
He did a good job of hooking his audience with what the average person wants to see, comedy, violence, drama, but then getting much deeper with it with all types of symbolism and foreshadowing. There's a lot of shyt in here that I think will probably come into play later like that weird guy on the bus and what actually happened at the gas station (or why it happened for that matter) but if you don't really get deep into the mind of a director you can just take it at face value and enjoy it.
The only thing I kind of find a bit jarring is that it doesn't feel "real" enough because of the way it's filmed. All types of movie shadowing and camera editing was done to give it this dark look but I don't think that's what this should've went for.
Missed out live this week but Imma be here next week. 
This show is amazing, love the overall vibe and it ain't too try hard with the humour. It's subtle but has a lot of weight especially with dudes in the background adding bits of dialogue like with them saying they gonna put paper boy on worldstar or the dudes in jay calling breh gay
This show is amazing, love the overall vibe and it ain't too try hard with the humour. It's subtle but has a lot of weight especially with dudes in the background adding bits of dialogue like with them saying they gonna put paper boy on worldstar or the dudes in jay calling breh gay
The Unknown Hype
The One
so how did all 4 of them end up leaking? was it for critics or what?Me and the person who I was working under had already started working a show a couple weeks before he got the call for Atlanta.
Episodes 3 & 4 are
Guest appearances gone have yall
JohnStarksMiddleFinger
Benz L. Bo$$ington
Yeah that's what happened. Most the critics that reviewed the show kept mentioning things from the 1st four episodes, so this adds up.
Conscious Pilot
Do Better.
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Citi Trends
aka milobased
I think that's kinda the point of his character though. He's not really a rapper type of guy he's just trying to make money. Plus he's not really about the hardcore street shyt.
You can tell he's dealing with the internal conflict of having to keep up a persona
Paper Boi's character based on the shows storyline is fine, it's the actual actor & his unspirited acting that I have a problem with.
SadimirPutin
Superstar
That entire sequence had me in stitches fam
Also the part when they were talking about why Darius cant have kids
watched the first episode to see what all the coli buzz was all about and was highly disappointed with this hot 
negative images and dysfunctional situations from start to finish
my top ten observations ..... stay woke fam!
negative images and dysfunctional situations from start to finish
my top ten observations ..... stay woke fam!
- baby mama drama ... and a woman having more power and responsibility than the baby boy
- you're gonna have to pay rent if you're gonna stay here. she got a date tonight? sharing his bm!
- another song bout slinging dope in 2016
- mouthy hoodrat instigating a beef between two brehs instead of keeping her mouth shut and kim.
- shooting another breh over a hoodrat.
- not allowed in your parents home? wtf!
- they got a culture vulture hipster dj throwing the n-word in his face, that has influence on what gets airplay.
- got cray cray so-called NOI character gibbering nonsense.
- two c00ns sitting out in a cow pasture in the hot ATL sun supposedly watching over business Ala the wire
- mature aged thot, thoting in the airport
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