Official 'Atlanta' Season 3 Thread

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

There’s a real “die and be a hero or live long enough to be the villain” element when you create bold new art that challenges conventions. These guys are straddling that line right now. Some times when you have success “subverting expectations” you get drunk on that to the point where you’re just doing shyt just to be different. Sometimes what needs to be done is right in front of you but these creatives make it more complicated than it needs to be. Game of Thrones is the most egregious example.

Stephen admitting that they were gonna start season 3 where season 2 ended but were like “why?” is exactly what I’m talking about. Why be different just because??

Because it works. Really nothing deeper than that

no pun intended

personally I thought if it kept it's vibe it had in S1/S2 in terms of the elements it focused on

it would've been straight

but ain't no big thing, even tho personally I feel DG is a bit , I still say Atlanta is the best thing on TV

next to Abbott Elementary

 

[drederick tatum]

Finale was trash. As soon as I saw the focus was on Van, I knew it was going to be a let down

I didn't watch the finale because I read it was centered on her, and I've never found her character interesting, especially this season's version of her. But is the finale still worth watching, does it tie up any loose ends, does Paper Boi find out who really stole his phone, etc?

 

[bl2k8]

Finished the finale. Whoever thought to switch up the order of episodes, that was a terrible fukkin idea.

I can see a world where 5-10 years from now people appreciate this season way more than they do in real time. I am pretty much tapped out with the whole get out themes in black TV shows, but I do like how Donald did it in a way that still only we could relate to

If season 4 is coming in the fall he should have made this the mid season finale and kept it at 3 seasons.

Overall I’d give the season it 7/10

 

[CBalla]

that ks episode was 10/10

 

[Mr Clean]

I liked this season in that it was enjoyable and hard to predict but trying to take us unawares so often can get tiring. I can appreciate that these dudes are doing their thing but at the same time Atlanta didn't really tap out on Atlanta the city to be doing an entire season elsewhere. Apparently they wrote this before covid so restrictions and shyt causing them to rewrite wasn't really a factor. I wanted a lot more Paper Boi, dude is the star of the show clearly. That one episode with those with that fashion designers was classic and the episode with that devil woman felt like an updated version The Woods which is one of my favorite episodes. Still, didn't exactly need that tbh.

Imma keep watching but the show lost some of its freshness. A separate anthology series would suit these dudes. Finish off this story though.

 

[Conan]

Man miss me with all this, ain’t nobody asking them to be in a box. You can tackles these topics in a way that feels geared towards black people. If you felt the message in these episodes was for you, cool, I didn’t learn shyt here nor need to watch these episodes to have known of these experiences

Cool. You ain't the spokesperson for black people though.

 

[Conan]

Elaborate exactly how this is NOT geared towards black people? I'm curious.

There's no explanation. He's one of those who thinks they speak for all black people.

 

[MischievousMonkey]

I need to watch the Van episode but not including that episode I will say this.

None of the main characters experienced any character growth this season except maybe Earn becoming competent and that really occurred the final episode of last season.

Meanwhile the stand alone episodes are genius but are completely removed from the main characters. In the past at least one of the main characters would have been somewhat involved to give context to what we are seeing. I actually think it would have been interesting if they used some secondary characters to act in that place. Maybe have Tracey be the character who gets reparations, or had Van’s friend from drake house be the SW those crazy Cac bytches kill. Little shyt to tie those one off stories to the main cast would have given them context. It could have been stupid like saying Kevin Samuels was the second famous alumni of the high school after paperboi and have him make a joke like “paperboi wouldn’t do this, this is invest in your hood”. Little shyt to not have the main cast completely removed from the side stories and their consequences.

I actually think a lot of themes were recycled for the main character’s stories. Paperboi has gone on better mental trips in earlier seasons. The episode with Darius and Van having an adventure to show their chemistry already happened at Drake’s house. The main characters have partied before and had issues with the host not paying what he owes them every season.

The only episode in hindsight with the main characters that felt new was the episode when Paperboi’s phone got stolen and the Invest in your Hood episodes. In both episodes they are dealing with the consequences of Paperboi’s fame and fukked up situations that fame gets him into.

The main thing I really learned from this season, or at least was implied is Europe is creepy and mostly passive aggressive hostile like white people are in any liberal city.

I was about to say something akin to that. I think this season suffered from not having a clear narrative thread for the cast (except Van).

 

[WIA20XX]

ATL ain't never really been linear or coherent. Folks looking for typical narrative progression or character growth, like you'd see in 99.99% of other shows, are kinda missing the point, imo. Paper Boi's rap career is basically the background to point out things they want to talk about, because there's no real story to tell. The point is to have Katt Williams do his thing, have that LGBT moment in the jail, do a Teddy Perkins. Everything else is really background.

Folks should watch Behind the Music/Unsung if they want to see a rise and fall and then redemption.

 

[Black Ball]

The change was a little startling at first. But in the end I thought the season had some really interesting, good, & entertaining story telling.

The crew of Atlanta has a great deal of talent. Curious to see where Season 4 goes.

 

[CBalla]

kev samuels episode was one of the most brilliant things ive ever seen on tv

george wallace voice and presence >>>

 

[Thanos]

The writing is not very good this season.

 

[MoMoneyMoMoneyMoMoney]

kev samuels episode was one of the most brilliant things ive ever seen on tv

george wallace voice and presence >>>

I just called him white you ain't have to call him Clarence Thomas

 

[MoMoneyMoMoneyMoMoney]

Idk wtf yall on but this season was up there with the first 2. They all have episodes where it's hit or miss and episodes for self reflection and minus the first season all have one "artsy" episode

 

[Black_Jesus]

The only decent episodes were the once that didn't involve the main cast in Europe.. the rest was pure trash.. they destroyed this show