Official 'Atlanta' Season 3 Thread

[Henry Orbit]

This. This is what makes Atlanta different and special.

Nah man she named a meal after Darius, just foul

Peach BBQ because he’s from Georgia

 

[H. Selassie]

“Reinvest in yo HOOD!!”

@that commercial

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

Sellout the culture
Streetwear sold out
Activism sold out
Regional cuisine sold out

Edit: Upon further reflection
The culture gets stolen
Streetwear got stolen and became a commoditization
Activism was stolen by weirdos for their own selfish greed
Regional Cuisine was stolen from an innocent introduction to a meal
If you can’t appreciate the layers
You don’t appreciate creative art

 

[FreedMind]

Can someone post a clip of the nollywood spoof?

 

[Womb Raider]

Damn that episode was fire


So damn layered too…I had no idea about the reality behind BLM orgs until certain threads on here and now Atlanta…the way they hijacked Paper Boys commercial Earn and Van stupid asses got me I KNEW shawty wasn’t gonna be there when he woke up. She definitely stole that damn wig too

 

[bl2k8]

The criticism of this season is weird to me, because they been doing the same thing in both seasons 1 & 2, but the ONLY significant difference is where seasons 1 & 2 mostly exposing everything that goes on within the BLACK community, this season is it mostly exposing how these white folks are devils in every level. It's wild that the same people who criticized on this season like this episode which MOSTLY a criticism of black activists.

It just seems to me that some of y'all are too conditioned to reject anything that a criticism about these DEVILS.

Last season was 2018. This season def seems like the majority was written in 2020 Covid fukked up the release dates but Glover still had to get that shyt off his chest and it’s still relevant

 

[jdashmaj]

This season has been incredible The messaging has been on point. It’s funny how Van and Earn role’s flipped. Earn was the screw up she was always struggling but was in a better position than him. I think she’s trippin now because Earn has become more responsible and stable. She’s acting out because she’s jealous of his newfound success.

 

[StatUS]

Paperboi with the "FAKE" shirt at the "Activist" roundtable

 

[RareAirBorne]

Yo Van

But ya she just not used to Earn being about shyt. And instead of just leaving like in most cases, she's going through this phase of sticking around and finding her purpose after watching Earn find his

Al not realizing the white corporations are not trying to educate black folks to no longer need their shyt had me like but maybe it still isn't obvious to some so I get the need for the message

 

[Michael's Black Son]

“Reinvest in yo HOOD!!”

@that commercial

breh that shyt had me weak

Alfred and Darius got their wake up calls on this shyt.

And Alfred should feel dumb for trying to remix Earn’s idea and then getting played by these CACs when it was time for them to clean up that Central Park 5 public relations disaster.

 

[Michael's Black Son]

i actually don't think earn is concerned about that

like obviously it might linger in the back of his mind, but he already seen all that.

he seemed legitimately worried about his kid and her mom didn't know where she was.

shyt is ridiculous.

Oh, it’s finally dawning on him that “this bytch is my baby moms” and she has some legit issues.

Chick is literally about to get arrested for doing dumb shyt and Earn is always there to throw on the cape when he should’ve been finessing some non profit foundation money from that fashion design for the All About My Paper Foundation.

Van can’t be saved.

Even if she literally did whatever Earn wanted, she’s nowhere near on his level at this point. She could’ve stayed home, played her position and waited til the tour was over.

 

[Ziggiy]

This season has been incredible The messaging has been on point. It’s funny how Van and Earn role’s flipped. Earn was the screw up she was always struggling but was in a better position than him. I think she’s trippin now because Earn has become more responsible and stable. She’s acting out because she’s jealous of his newfound success.

Yo Van

But ya she just not used to Earn being about shyt. And instead of just leaving like in most cases, she's going through this phase of sticking around and finding her purpose after watching Earn find his

I don’t think she’s jealous of Earn’s success. Remember even though at the end of season 2 they were on their way to Europe, season 3 is NOT picking up right where we left off. Timeline wise its been at least a year between the events of season 2 and the beginning of season 3.


We know this…

Earn says in episode 2 that this is not Paperboi’s first time in Amsterdam. He specifically says that they played a smaller concert there “last year” so Vanessa has had at least a year to get used to Earn being successful and responsible. If she was jealous and holding in a YEAR’S worth of resentment I think she’d be showing more animosity towards Earn instead the relative apathy she’s presented towards pretty much everyone.


I think if Van has an issue its that


1). She hasn’t found HER purpose. And by being near and around someone like Earn, who was once purposeless himself, I think she feels like she herself will find that piece of herself, that hidden talent, that unearthed potential, that dormant specialness, that will turn help complete HER


2). She’s upset that Earn’s success took him away from her. Remember in season 1 he was always around. He was telling her he loved her. Taking her out to dinner. Etc. then season 2 comes around and he’s less concerned with her romantically. Telling her that is work “pays her fukking bills” and then they break up for good.
Now here we are in season 3, a year later and he’s all the way in another country. Not only succeeding but THRIVING. Gone is the guy who NEEDED to crash at her house because he had nowhere else to go. Gone is the guy who couldn’t bail himself out jail. Gone is the guy who was sleeping in storage units. But also gone is that guy PHYSICALLY, and just like Earn was co-dependent on Van at one point, Van was just as co-dependent on Earn. She loves Earn. And she’s trying to reconcile a reality where his love for her is based off NOT needing her. So like any co-dependent person what did she do? Fly out to Europe EXACTLY where that person is to “figure herself out” but also to figure HIM out too. Think about the previous episodes she’s appeared in. She’s stayed at the same hotels as Earn. She’s accompanied Earn to parties. She’s made sure that, even though she’s not all up in his space, she’s also not too far away either. She’s never treated him unkindly, offering advice and a helping hand when needed. That “thumbs up” text annoyed him, but she responded to his agitation and his concern with what? PHYSICAL INTIMACY. Vanessa LIKES what he’s become, because he’s essentially morphed into the version of himself that he faked in season 1’s penultimate episode “Juneteenth”. She simply wants to become that version of herself too, because THAT version in her mind is walking hand in hand with him.

 

[ML29]

Last season was 2018. This season def seems like the majority was written in 2020 Covid fukked up the release dates but Glover still had to get that shyt off his chest and it’s still relevant

Even crazier some stuff was written in 2019 according to Stephen Glover.

 

[darealvelle]

 

[Positive Posting]

I don’t think she’s jealous of Earn’s success. Remember even though at the end of season 2 they were on their way to Europe, season 3 is NOT picking up right where we left off. Timeline wise its been at least a year between the events of season 2 and the beginning of season 3.


We know this…

Earn says in episode 2 that this is not Paperboi’s first time in Amsterdam. He specifically says that they played a smaller concert there “last year” so Vanessa has had at least a year to get used to Earn being successful and responsible. If she was jealous and holding in a YEAR’S worth of resentment I think she’d be showing more animosity towards Earn instead the relative apathy she’s presented towards pretty much everyone.


I think if Van has an issue its that


1). She hasn’t found HER purpose. And by being near and around someone like Earn, who was once purposeless himself, I think she feels like she herself will find that piece of herself, that hidden talent, that unearthed potential, that dormant specialness, that will turn help complete HER


2). She’s upset that Earn’s success took him away from her. Remember in season 1 he was always around. He was telling her he loved her. Taking her out to dinner. Etc. then season 2 comes around and he’s less concerned with her romantically. Telling her that is work “pays her fukking bills” and then they break up for good.
Now here we are in season 3, a year later and he’s all the way in another country. Not only succeeding but THRIVING. Gone is the guy who NEEDED to crash at her house because he had nowhere else to go. Gone is the guy who couldn’t bail himself out jail. Gone is the guy who was sleeping in storage units. But also gone is that guy PHYSICALLY, and just like Earn was co-dependent on Van at one point, Van was just as co-dependent on Earn. She loves Earn. And she’s trying to reconcile a reality where his love for her is based off NOT needing her. So like any co-dependent person what did she do? Fly out to Europe EXACTLY where that person is to “figure herself out” but also to figure HIM out too. Think about the previous episodes she’s appeared in. She’s stayed at the same hotels as Earn. She’s accompanied Earn to parties. She’s made sure that, even though she’s not all up in his space, she’s also not too far away either. She’s never treated him unkindly, offering advice and a helping hand when needed. That “thumbs up” text annoyed him, but she responded to his agitation and his concern with what? PHYSICAL INTIMACY. Vanessa LIKES what he’s become, because he’s essentially morphed into the version of himself that he faked in season 1’s penultimate episode “Juneteenth”. She simply wants to become that version of herself too, because THAT version in her mind is walking hand in hand with him.

need to leave that bytch in the recycling bin where she belong. Hope he don’t fall victim.