TV: Atlanta (FX)

[E.H. Ruddock]

That was a fantastic episode

[Biff Pocoroba]

Another anthology style outside of the series arc? It was good though.
Anyone else notice the episode descriptions this season? “I was legitimately scared watching this”.

[The Argonaut]

Personally, I'm having a hard time with this season. Honestly not into the one-off non-cast episodes, sorry

[VinylGuy]

last episode was wonderful, challenging, smart, weird, polemic. I love it.

Also, kinda cool that these weird sort of earn dreams have that hotel guy in common. He was one of the dudes in the boat in ep 1.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Personally, I'm having a hard time with this season. Honestly not into the one-off non-cast episodes, sorry

[VinylGuy]

Zazie is a guest on Maron.

Looking forward to listen to it.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Biff Pocoroba]

Nice to see a funny episode driven by the main three characters (sorry Van) with a touch of Atlanta surrealism.

[The Argonaut]

I liked this last one, about the phone. Best episode of the series so far. Had me actually laughing at parts.
Question:

Spoiler: show

Did Socks steal the phone? Or did he kill the guy that stole the phone but realized that if he gave it to Al they'd know?

[VinylGuy]

Spoiler: show

i think Socket just stole the phone

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[VinylGuy]

yeah, i saw the teaser and it seemed fun. They captioned it with something like ¨somebody is gonna get mad with this one¨ so im really looking forward to it.

[VinylGuy]

damn that episode was so fucking fun!!

¨you need to recycle that¨

[Biff Pocoroba]

The Paperboi plot line in particular was great satire.

[Biff Pocoroba]

Another anthology episode.
This season certainly seems to have less of a buzz.

[VinylGuy]

Last episode was funny, sad and beautiful.

[Monkey_Driven]

Another anthology episode.
This season certainly seems to have less of a buzz.

I feel like a lot of these "prestige" shows lose some buzz after 1-2 seasons.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[VinylGuy]

yeah, i agree. These episodes have a lot to unpack.

[Biff Pocoroba]

Unexpected cameo in that last one. First half was kinda meandering but I liked the episode overall by time it finished.
Next week’s looks to be another anthology episode.