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Atlanta: Robbin' Season |OT| - S2 of the award-winning Donald Glover show - Thursdays on FX
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Teddy Perkins was a more disturbing episode but this was more tense.
Agree with this. Teddy Perkins felt disturbing the whole way through and Paper Boi getting robbed (again) and being broken from the forest crackhead were just tense.
Yeah I'm kinda bummed out. Paper Boi and Darius out here having these scar-you-for-life adventures this season.
Yeah, I was getting excited for it, and then it hit me I'm a miss both airings because I'm seeing the movie twice, back-to-back.
Yeah, really conflicted between watching this with friends and Infinity War next week. Don't want to go for an 11pm Infinity War screening.
So I guess Al was dreaming of his moms and that's why he had a bad day?
Man, they way them nigga went right into jumping Alfred..? Damn
A lot of these episodes have been extra heavy and surrealist. I don't always like it but I love it.
Man, they way them nigga went right into jumping Alfred..? Damn
A lot of these episodes have been extra heavy and surrealist. I don't always like it but I love it.
The test signal didn't pop up this time. That might've actually been an accident the first time.
Why did it break your heart?
Anyway I find the Teddy Perkins episode more disturbing...
This one is just about Al having a bad day and coming to grips with his status as a celebrity... He's either gotta shit or get off the pot.
Also I can really relate to dead parent dreams where it feels like they're still there so that touched me pretty well.
I think they are talking about the Fox broadcast color bars that popped up.
I saw it on my DVR recording of it.
given that the guy Al meets in the forest is humming the same tune as Al's vision of his mother did, on what is seemingly the anniversary of her death (Earn and Darius asking if he's okay today + the "thinking about you today" text), i wonder if he's meant to be something more than just some random forest crackhead
but i'm not capable of unpacking all these metaphors right now
the Willow Dean Kearse memorial is for Brian Tyree Henry's mother though. she died in an accident in May 2016
also i genuinely thought for a moment that Al was about to get shot by the kid in the convenience store at the end
but i'm not capable of unpacking all these metaphors right now
the Willow Dean Kearse memorial is for Brian Tyree Henry's mother though. she died in an accident in May 2016
also i genuinely thought for a moment that Al was about to get shot by the kid in the convenience store at the end
Teddy Perkins or this one wasn't even close to disturbing. I've seen disturbing shit
like someone liking listening to Kendrick in my presence
Because I feel like Al gives up in the end. Gives up on believing he can continue to be who he wants to be while making it as a rapper. Which seems consistent with Donald Glover's comment that this season, everybody just gives up a little bit more.
I've seen some in here say that he was robbed of his spirit, and for it to happen on the anniversary of his mother's death makes it all the more saddening. Him crying in the forest (Paperboi, crying) damn near triggered my own tears.
I was thinking about this too last night before I went to sleep. It took me a while to piece together that it was about the anniversary of his mom's death. I didn't even think about connecting that text to it. I only tried to remember if they used a real number or "555" number.
The forest crackhead did say something like "you're just like your mother." It made me wonder if the crackhead was even real or if it was someone who maybe took his mothers life or not. Especially with how they were humming the same thing. Seems too connected to be random
I wonder if Atlanta is meant to be Donald Glover. Earn is Donald being all inside his head being his own worse enemy, Paper Boi is him trying to hold on his roots but success is chipping away at that, and Darius is his weird creative side.
This episode was solid. I felt bad for Al struggling to find himself and to have all that happen on what seems like the anniversary of his mother's death.
Why arent there any zero gravity scenes in Star Wars tho? Those kids talking about that before jumping Al blew my mind.
Why arent there any zero gravity scenes in Star Wars tho? Those kids talking about that before jumping Al blew my mind.
Yooooo, thats a good theory right there.....you in the middle of celebrating 4/20? lol
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OH. OH goddamn I'm slow as fuck. That explains so much.
Damn, this episode was real as fuck. Thanks for making me aware of the circumstances of his mom's death, guys, it didn't even occur to me. I'm pretty sure the guy in the forest was just in Alfred's head, and him being lost there a metaphor for his indecesiveness regarding his career. He's tried to keep things real, but he's also tired of all the shit he has to suffer for it. At the end he made the decision to discard that aspect of himself and be more like the IG model he was seeing when he allowed the kid to take a picture with himself.
This episode was great, Brian Tyree Henry needs to submit this for an Emmy. And yeah, the crackhead was definitely not real. He compares Al to his mother on the anniversary of her death and basically gives him the SparkNotes version of what he needs to do with his life when he threatens him with the box cutter. Glad to see Al takes it to heart at the end, even if it does break part of his soul to realize he can't be successful AND real.
The synopsis for the final episode of the season is:
The synopsis for the final episode of the season is:
"Sometimes you gotta go where the money goes. But it be feeling like something is holding me back. Like I can't leave."
Sounds like the season might end with Al having to come to a decision about Earn as his manager
Sounds like the season might end with Al having to come to a decision about Earn as his manager
I thought he was dreaming about his dad for a sec. He's never mentioned him as far as I know.