FX's ATLANTA (Starring Donald Glover) S4 Final episode

Just watched it again not too long ago but blazed this time. Coconut Crunchos and dread dude almost ripped my stomach apart
 
Gotta rewatch. I fast forwarded through the commercials b/c I didn't know they were part of the show. :smh: ...Was wondering why the episode seemed mad short
 
I think the thing that's most refreshing is that you can tell the show is tailored towards young black people with reasonable amount of sense and awareness.

When you watch this show, then watch something else, you can tell that the other shows didn't have you in mind when it came to who they were gearing the show towards.

I feel like Donald Glover is the type to be on internet forums, posting memes, on black twitter, scrolling through Facebook, swiping on tender, dealing with a baby mama, blowing Green Technology, have expired tags on his car, faps from time to time, like Popeye's fries...

but doesn't fit into your stereotypical "black person" that America has us pegged down as.

I feel like the show is directly talking to me, and DG and I could legit sit down and have a conversation.

If i'm reading too much into it, let me know..

This must be what it feels like to be white. :lol:
 
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Repped. I remember reading that the writing staff is made up.of mostly young black writers. One of the first shows that I too feel like it speaking directly to me and my life experiences. Amazing show.

I love how this show can make me go from laughing to uneasy to straight up uncomfortable in one scene. That cereal commercial had me not knowing how to feel.:lol:
 
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Repped. I remember reading that the writing staff is made up.of mostly young black writers. One of the first shows that I too feel like it speaking directly to me and my life experiences. Amazing show.

I love how this show can make me go from laughing to uneasy to straight up uncomfortable in one scene. That cereal commercial had me not knowing how to feel.:lol:

all of this, my g.

I'm like "WTF"... the litte girl's voice sounded so much like my neice. And when the coyote's voice sounded less cartooney and more like a 45 year old broke black man, I knew something was coming. it just felt weird.

i think what resonated more was that the cop DIDN'T shoot him.. That was very subtle.

The issue is, most people only pay attention when a black person gets shot. But that's not the only reason why most black people are uneasy w/ the cops. It's interactions like this that upset black folk.

A death is easy to see. But **** like this won't get a hashtag or be on a shirt. It's the interactions that most don't see.
 
Well the commercial was never really resolved.. it cut away to the cereal after them getting into a more intense standoff

Everyone had the potential to get F'd up by the cop with how things were going.. THAT was when the commercial got really real

The coyote just had the look on his face like 'o shhhh', maybe me running my mouth is going get me killed by this overzealous dude.. or the kids, while being well intended and standing up for me, could get me or them killed
 
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One thing I'd like to add...

There was a brief part in the Montague show where Dr. Holt and Paperboi actually agreed on several topics facing the black man.

When Paperboi began firing off powerful statements in his hood way, the host was like "Yes. That actually makes sense."

It was jarring at first b/c you had a white woman between two black dudes from two different worlds, and yet, she was agreeing with the guy that you wouldn't think she would on the surface.

And it thew the Don Lemon parodied guy off.

He went to the familiar talking points about black men and Paperboi countered...

Then finally, Paperboi was like "***** what the **** are you talking about?"

That sentiment is often felt among black people... And when you have a white woman agreeing, it's showing it from a different perspective... Saying "much of the negative stereotypes are manufactured"

Did anyone catch that part and feel something similar?
 
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That "what IPAs do you have on tap" line had me yelling. 
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Dude is a got damn wolf ain't like he could walk into a store and get some cereal.

Son could've been eating those damn kids
 
Repped. I remember reading that the writing staff is made up.of mostly young black writers. One of the first shows that I too feel like it speaking directly to me and my life experiences. Amazing show.

I love how this show can make me go from laughing to uneasy to straight up uncomfortable in one scene. That cereal commercial had me not knowing how to feel.
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That's exactly how I felt about that prison scene in the second ep with that mentally ill man. It was funny at first, but when he spit that water on that guard.......s*** hit the fan. 
 
I finally got aprind to watching this episode..

I lost it When dude said..
" i walked into a movie theater and realized i wasnt getting the respect I deserve... thats when i realized im a 35 year old white man"
 
I think the thing that's most refreshing is that you can tell the show is tailored towards young black people with reasonable amount of sense and awareness.

When you watch this show, then watch something else, you can tell that the other shows didn't have you in mind when it came to who they were gearing the show towards.

I feel like Donald Glover is the type to be on internet forums, posting memes, on black twitter, scrolling through Facebook, swiping on tender, dealing with a baby mama, blowing Green Technology, have expired tags on his car, faps from time to time, like Popeye's fries...

but doesn't fit into your stereotypical "black person" that America has us pegged down as.

I feel like the show is directly talking to me, and DG and I could legit sit down and have a conversation.

If i'm reading too much into it, let me know..

This must be what it feels like to be white. :lol:


Repped. I remember reading that the writing staff is made up.of mostly young black writers. One of the first shows that I too feel like it speaking directly to me and my life experiences. Amazing show.

I love how this show can make me go from laughing to uneasy to straight up uncomfortable in one scene. That cereal commercial had me not knowing how to feel.:lol:

Completely agree with both of these. The show is written in an in-the-know, self-aware black perspective, unlike the majority of Tyler Perry's stuff that I don't relate to at all, nor simply find funny, or some tv show written through the eyes of 45+ year old white person's perspective of what they think black people are like (which would probably include G-Unit heavyweight gear and Lugz). The last comedy I felt this invested in was Arrested Development, another show with amazing writing.
 
Rewatching E1, is dude on the bus the same guy from the commercial towards the end of the last episode [emoji]128064[/emoji]
 
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