It is. Donald Glover has said his goal is to show white viewers what it's like to be black.
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It is. Donald Glover has said his goal is to show white viewers what it's like to be black.
i read it every day though." so and so entertainer/athlete def lurks the coli". i looked it up. this site ranked 31,000 something in online engagement
Hey if you and those bozos that dapped you- all send a video to FX weeping that there aren't more episodes of Earn, Paper Boi and crew going on useless "adventures" to McDonald's or whatever, maybe they will change the writing.
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Tryna Makit
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On my second watch now and man.....Socks is a peice of shyt
Dude suggested every fukkin suspect, and on the 1st watch I never saw it coming.
Scumbag
, and I still don't know why this white boy is even around
I think he a producer?
Dude suggested every fukkin suspect, and on the 1st watch I never saw it coming.
Scumbag
, and I still don't know why this white boy is even around I think he a producer?
I think people are forgetting that Wiley said what was on the phone. There is no doubt he was connected with Socks somehow. The box top Chevy reference and the rose reference proves he heard what was on the phone
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Only way Wiley would know the Droptop Chevy and Thorn lines is if he got access to the phone, only way with access to the phone was through Socks.2.5 seasons in and brehs is still expecting this to be some Black Entourage shyt.
The plot of their rise is more of a backdrop to the different social commentaries they’re making, so episodes that don’t go a long way towards advancing that storyline are not necessarily filler.
With this episode, I did like how they did the race swap aspect with respect to accusations and presumptions of guilt. You have Paper Boi and crew as the privileged rich Black people going around accusing random CaCs of theft with little to no justification. The cancer kid literally did nothing wrong, he idolized Paper Boi to the end. Yet rather than being concerned about his well being, Earn is searching him on a stretcher. All because of happenstance and the wording some random intermediary used (the suspiciously sounding “cancer attack”). And when you think about it, that was a ridiculously far fetched notion to begin with. No need to fake a medical emergency, they could’ve just left like the rest of the audience if he stole the phone.
Then you have Wiley. He certainly fit the description.
Troubled youth, previously locked up for minor shyt as a youth. Overall weird dude with questionable references (a non-blood uncle that hadn’t seen him in years and didn’t even know his age). But although he did make a good suspect, the fact remained that they had no proof and it was just as likely that his “cover story” as a basement dwelling weirdo super fan was just as likely to be true. Instead of considering that, they treated him and his uncle like criminals in cahoots from the jump.
Then in the end, it’s the CaC that presented himself as the biggest ally that actually did the deed. He was overly supportive and od’d on trying to fit in emulating the persona all the while scheming. I saw the tweet theorizing that he was in cahoots with Wiley but I don’t buy that. I see no reason to believe that Socks knew some random CaC in Budapest who happened to be nephew of the manager (or whatever he was) of the venue Paper Boi was already slated to perform at before they met Socks.
Sopranos season 5 level. Pie O My levels. There will be Harvard essays on this show in the next 10 years.
Jean toomer
Superstar
Your phone is your recorded history. To just trash it is just sadistic. Socks seems to represent all the I’ll effects that come with bringing an outsider into your struggle when you get too comfortable with them. The episode was a reminder for me.Darius constantly trying to sidetrack the narrative into a 'filler episode/parable' was
They excel at finding actors with punchable faces for this show. The nephew might be one of the most annoying characters they've had. White Wiley is up there with Black Bieber and Clark County
Motherfukking Socks.
I might be reading too much into this - but him tossing the phone reminds me so much of how the music industry is in Europe about Black music. In the mid '90's it was nothing to hear about cats popping up on some regular shyt in Brixton when they flew in from The States. There came a time when record companies started flying dudes in around the early 00's when all that stopped. They were basically all kept in West London by a bunch of handlers. Socks throwing away the phone felt like a metaphor for this new version of the game cutting people off from what they know or a sense of community. The trade off is that the artists get a bunch of money.
Trailer for next week looks like some fukkery too
MajesticLion
Veteran
There are people who will use the fact that they're in your entourage to sell access to the stans out there.
R.E.N. Spells Ren
Veteran
Were those Paper Boi actual lines or did Wiley say shyt to make Paper Boi think he had heard those unreleased songs? I thought it was the latter.
Are they in London or Budapest? I heard Earn say something about he’s always gonna make sure they come back through Budapest, so I assumed that’s where they are. If they’re in London Wiley knowing Socks seems believable, but if they’re in Budapest, that’s just too much of a coincidence to seem likely.
Yeah, this episode wasn't the one to throw the cape on for.
Paperboi's heart isn't in rapping and Socks is a piece of shyt. Oh, and Van and Earn aren't on good terms.
This episode wasn't needed to convey any of that
