Season 1 Episo 4 Preview: NeNe updat her gay boyiend on "what's gog on wh the bch."
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- ‘ATLANTA’ SEASON 3 OPENS WH A WHE LBIAN COUPLE’S HOE OF HORRORSLONG-AWAITED RETURNFXTHE TWO-EPISO PREMIERE OF THE FX SERI’ HIGHLY ANTICIPATED THIRD SEASON WAS SPIRED BY THE DISTURBG TE STORY OF THE HART FAY AND A$AP ROCKY’S TAMENT SWEN.KYNDALL CUNNGHAMENTERTAMENT REPORTERUPDATED MAR. 25, 2022 3:38AM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 24, 2022 11:30PM EDT ATLANTA’S SOPHOMORE SEASON (OR ROBB’ SEASON, AS WAS TLED) SAW DONALD GLOVER’S EMMY-WNG FX EDY PH S WELL-TABLISHED PENCHANT FOR GENRE-BENDG SATIRIL HUMOR AND AVANT-GAR STORYTELLG TO NEW BOUNDARI. EACH EPISO FELT MORE ACCURATELY SCRIBED AS AN EVENT, WH THE HYSTERIL OPENER “ALLIGATOR MAN” FEATURG A REER-HIGH PERFORMANCE BY KATT WILLIAMS—AND AN ACTUAL ALLIGATOR—AS A PRIME EXAMPLE. “BARBERSHOP” WAS ANOTHER GEM THAT RIFFED OFF THE ALMOST RELIG VOTN BLACK MEN HAVE TO THEIR BARBERS. THEN THERE WAS “WOODS,” A WELL-EARNED THARTIC MOMENT FOR AL AKA PAPER BOI (BRIAN TYREE HENRY), WHOSE PRSN AND DISILLNMENT WH FAME WAS A THREAD THROUGHOUT THE SEASON. WH ALL THE EDIC EXCELLENCE ATLANTA LIVERED AN ENTIRE FOUR YEARS AGO—Y, KIDS WHO WERE HMAN HIGH SCHOOL WHEN THE LAST SEASON AIRED ARE NOW ABOUT TO GRADUATE—THE STAK FOR SEASON 3 HAVE NEVER BEEN HIGHER. OUR UNTRY HAS ALSO EXPERIENCED SEVERAL MAJOR CULTURAL EVENTS SCE THE SHOW WAS LAST ON TV, SUCH AS THE COVID-19 PANMIC, A NEW ADMISTRATN, BLACK LIV MATTERS PROTTS, AND AN SURRECTN. LOOKG AT OUR CURRENT TV LP, ’S HARD TO THK OF A SHOW MORE PABLE OF MG THE ABSURDY AND TRAGEDY OF OUR CURRENT MOMENT. DIRECTED BY HIRO MURAI AND WRTEN BY DONALD AND STEPHEN GLOVER, “THREE SLAPS” IS A NARRATIVE TOUR THAT HARDLY FEATUR ANY OF THE SHOW’S MA CHARACTERS. IT’S AN UNUALLY DARK SHOWSE OM ATLANTA, EVEN WH THE SHOW’S TRAGIC BENT, BORROWG THE DISTURBG TE STORY OF THE HART FAY—A WHE LBIAN UPLE WH SEVERAL ADOPTED BLACK CHILDREN WHO, AFTER ABG THEIR CHILDREN, DROVE EVERYONE OFF A CLIFF TO THEIR ATHS 2018—AS S MA PLOT BUT WH A MUCH DIFFERENT OUTE. JAMIE NMANN AS GAYLE, CHRISTOPHER FARRAR AS LOQUAREEO, LRA DREYFS AS AMBER ATLANTAGUY D'ALEMA/FX SEVERAL PARTS OF THE EPISO TERPOLATE WELL-KNOWN CULTURAL STORI. IN THE LD OPEN, A WHE MAN TELLS A BLACK MAN ABOUT THE HISTORY OF A LAKE THEY’RE BOTH FISHG ON OM A SMALL BOAT AT NIGHT. REFERENCG THE HISTORY OF GEIA’S FAMO LAKE LANIER WHOUT MENTNG S NAME, HE SAYS THAT THE BODY OF WATER ED TO BE A SELF-ERNED TOWN OF BLACK PEOPLE THAT’S CURRENTLY HNTED. ‘THEY WERE ALMOST WHE,” HE SAYS PRUMABLY ABOUT THE EED SLAV WHO HABED OSRVILLE. HE THEN GO TO A TANGENT ABOUT WHENS, THE WAY BLDS PEOPLE AND HOW ANYONE N BE WHE WH “ENOUGH BLOOD AND MONEY.” REMDG OF THIS SHOW’S TERT HORROR, THE WHE MAN SUDNLY TRANSFORMS TO A IGHTENG, ZOMBIE-LIKE CREATURE AND ATTACKS THE BLACK MAN. THE RT OF THE EPISO IS FOCED ON A BOY NAMED LOQUAREEO (CHRISTOPHER FARRAR) WHOSE LIFE DRASTILLY CHANG AFTER HE GETS TROUBLE FOR DANCG CLASS AFTER HIS TEACHER RMS THE STUNTS THAT THEY’LL BE SEEG BLACK PANTHER 2. (SEE THE FAMO VIO/GIF OF A BLACK BOY TIMBS DANCG ON A SK FOR REFERENCE). AFTER A MEETG WH HIS PARENTS, A GUIDANCE UNSELOR SE HIM RECEIVE THREE SLAPS OM HIS FATHER AND LLS FAY AND CHILDREN’S SERVIC. BEFORE LOQUAREEO N EVEN BE TAKEN AWAY, HIS MOTHER AND FATHER PRACTILLY KICK HIM OUT, ASSUMG HE WAS THE ONE THAT SNCHED. THE NEXT TIME WE SEE LOQUAREEO, HE’S BEG DROPPED OFF AT A SMELLY, DISHEVELED HOME OF TWO KOMBUCHA-MAKG WHE WOMEN WHO’VE ALREADY ADOPTED THREE OTHER BLACK CHILDREN. IN A FUNNY TRODUCTN TO A RATHER OMO SUATN, THEY GIVE LOQUAREEO HIS OWN TOWEL WH “LARRY” SEWN TO BEE THEY REFE TO LEARN HIS NAME, LOOK BEFUDDLED WHEN HE ASKS IF THEY OWN WASHCLOTHS, AND FEED HIM “IED” CHICKEN THAT’S CLEARLY UNOKED. PRACTILLY EVERY JOKE MA ABOUT WHE WOMEN ON TWTER OR THEIR ASSOCIATN WH THE TERM “KAREN” IS STUFFED TO THIS HALF-HOUR.THE FAY’S LIVG SUATN BE EVEN MORE PERTURBG AS WE REALIZE THE CHILDREN ARE BASILLY GLORIFIED SLAV, FORCED TO MATA THE UPLE’S GARN AND BARELY RECEIVG FOOD. AT A FARMER’S MARKET, WHERE THE FANCIALLY CHALLENGED UPLE PUT THE KIDS ON DISPLAY TO ATTRACT BUYERS TO THEIR TENT, LOQUAREEO TRI TO MAKE AN PE AND NS TO THE ARMS OF A POLICE OFFICER, RECREATG THE IMAGE OF DEVONTE HART THAT WAS WILY CIRCULATED DURG THE FERGON RTS (DEVONTE WAS ONE OF THE CHILDREN KILLED THE HORRIFIC CRASH). OF URSE, THE POLICE OFFICER IGNOR HIS PLEAS FOR HELP AND HANDS HIM BACK TO HIS GUARDIANS. ADVERTISEMENT WE THK LOQUAREEO WILL OFFICIALLY MAKE OUT OF THIS HOE OF HORRORS WHEN A BLACK WORKER OM FAY AND CHILDREN’S SERVIC SHOWS UP TO DO A CHECK-. BUT SHE MYSTERLY VANISH AFTER ONE OF THE WOMEN PULLS HER OUTSI.THEN THE MOMENT ANYONE FAIAR WH THE SOURCE MATERIAL HAS BEEN DREADG, WHEN THE UPLE TELLS THE KIDS THEY’LL BE GOG ON A ROAD TRIP TO THE GRAND CANYON. THE IMAGE OF THE FAY PILG TO THE VEHICLE IS JARRG AND NOT SOMETHG YOU NECSARILY WANT TO VISUALIZE. EVEN WH THE “HAPPY” ENDG OF THE CHILDREN JUMPG OM THE TNK OF THE VAN BEFORE THE UPLE PLUNG TO LAKE LANIER, HARDLY OBSCUR THE IMAGE OF THE MASS CHILD MURR THAT OCCURRED REAL LIFE. “EVEN WH THE “HAPPY” ENDG OF THE CHILDREN JUMPG OM THE TNK OF THE VAN BEFORE THE UPLE PLUNG TO LAKE LANIER, HARDLY OBSCUR THE IMAGE OF THE MASS CHILD MURR THAT OCCURRED REAL LIFE.” ULTIMATELY, THIS SHORT STORY IS A DREAM, AS WE SEE EARN WAKE UP A BED NEXT TO A RANDOM WOMAN AND TRANSN TO EPISO 2. “STERKLAAS IS COMG TO TOWN” IS FORTUNATELY MUCH LIGHTER AND FEELS DISTCTLY ATLANTA-QUE, AS FEATUR THE ST MOSTLY HANGG OUT AND TONS OF BLACKFACE.EARN WAK UP OM A ONE-NIGHT STAND TO HIS PHONE BLOWG UP WH MSAG OM SWISSAIR REMDG HIM OF HIS FLIGHT, VAN (ZAZIE BEETZ) ASKG WHY HE HASN’T PICKED HER UP YET, AL SAYG HE NEEDS $20K, AND DARI (LAKEH STANFIELD) TELLG HIM HE ATE A PERSIMMON. WE’RE NOT SURE WHY EARN IS COPENHAGEN WHILE EVERYONE ELSE IS AMSTERDAM, BUT HE FLI TO THE DUTCH CY WHERE PAPER BOI HAS A SHOW.WHEN HE ARRIV, HE LEARNS THAT AL GOT ARRTED AND IS BEG HELD A JAIL THAT’S PRACTILLY A THREE-STAR HILTON. THE ENTIRE SCENAR RELLS A$AP ROCKY’S TAMENT SWEN 2019 AND THE ASSUMPTN MA BY SOME PEOPLE ONLE THAT HE WAS ACTUALLY DOG PRETTY WELL THANKS TO PHOTOS OF SWEDISH JAIL CELLS REMBLG STUD APARTMENTS MANHATTAN. IN THAT WAY, THE B FEELS A LTLE EXPIRED NSIRG HOW MUCH PUBLIC NSCNS ABOUT THE PRISON SYSTEM HAS ADVANCED SCE THEN. BUT WATCHG AL TELL THE PRISON GUARD THAT HE WANTS HIS MEAL BEFORE HE LEAV LEFT ME SHAMBL. ADVERTISEMENT EARN (DONALD GLOVER) AND PAPER BOI (BRIAN TYREE HENRY) ATLANTACO OLAKUNLE/FX MEANWHILE, DARI PICKS UP VAN AT THE AIRPORT FOR EARN. THE LAST TIME WE HEARD OM VAN, SHE WAS TEXTG EARN THAT SHE PLANNED ON MOVG WH HER MOM. BUT NOW SHE’S EUROPE, SEEMGLY ON EARN’S DIME, AN ATTEMPT TO REDISVER HERSELF AND TAKE WHATEVER OPPORTUNI ARE PRENTED. SHE ALSO MENTNS THAT SHE HAS A BOYIEND. SHE AND DARI HEAD TO A STORE WHERE SHE FDS A PIECE OF PAPER SI A AT POCKET WH AN ADDRS AND CIS TO GO THERE FOR THE HECK OF . THEY’RE GREETED BY A WOMAN WHO ASSUM THEY’VE E TO PICK HER AND SOME OTHER PEOPLE UP TO GO TO WHAT APPEARS TO BE A WAKE. AT THE HOE, WHICH LOOKS LIKE A SET OM MIDSOMMAR, VAN HAS A VAGUE DISCSN WH A ATH DOULA WHERE SHE MENTNS THAT SHE’S “PRETTY AIMLS RIGHT NOW.”THE FUNNIT PART OF THE EPISO OCCURS WHEN VAN WALKS OVER TO WHAT ORIGALLY LOOKS LIKE A RPSE BUT IS REALLY AN UNNSC MAN TRANSNG TO ATH TO SAY SOME FAL WORDS. AFTER TELLG HIM “’S GOG TO BE OK,” THE DOULA RELEAS A NTRAPTN THAT SUFFOT THE MAN. THIS JARRG MOMENT THE MIDDLE OF A SERENE VIGIL IS HILAR AND OF SELF. BUT THE AMOUNT OF EFFORT THE MAN PUTS TO TRYG TO PE AND HOW LONG TAK FOR HIM TO STOP BREATHG SUGGTS THAT HE WASN’T ACTUALLY DYG AND WAS MAYBE JT ASLEEP. ZAZIE BEETZ AS VAN ATLANTACO OLAKUNLE/FX MEANWHILE, EE OM HIS LUXUR PRISON STAY, AL IS GETTG READY TO PERFORM AT A VENUE LATER THAT NIGHT. HE AND AL ENUNTER A MAN DRSED LIKE STERKLAAS WH A BABY BLACKFACE DRSED AS THE NTROVERSIAL ZWARTE PIET (OR BLACK PETE) CHARACTER. THEIR DRIVER RMS THEM THAT BLACK PETE IS ACTUALLY JT A CHILD THAT’S FALLEN A CHIMNEY, BUT ANYONE WHO’S READ ABOUT THE RECENT NTROVERSI SURROUNDG THE TRADN AND S FTIVALS KNOWS THE CHARACTER IS RACIALIZED. WE ALSO FD OUT AL WAS ARRTED AFTER TWO WOMEN HE WAS HAVG A THREOME WH GOT TO A PHYSIL ALTERTN. ADVERTISEMENT JT BEFORE AL IS SET TO PERFORM, HE SE THE DIENCE, ALL MA UP LIKE BLACK PETE, AND DCH THE SHOW. WHEN EARN NOTIFI THE BOOKER, HE TRI TO CHASE HIM DOWN BUT N’T TELL HIM APART OM THE BLACK PET THE LOBBY AND STARTS PUNCHG ONE OF THEM. AFTER THIS EXTREMELY SILLY JOKE, WE END ON EARN ARRIVG AT HIS HOTEL ROOM AND SEEG VAN THE LOBBY. THE TWO BARELY EXCHANGE WORDS BUT APPEAR TO BE A GOOD PLACE.AT THIS MONTH’S SXSW, GLOVER PROMISED THAT THIS SEASON WOULD BE MORE ABOUT VAN, WHICH IS SOMETHG TO BE EXCED AND SLIGHTLY TENTATIVE ABOUT. VAN—AND BEETZ’S AMGLY DRY EMBODIMENT OF HER—HAS ALWAYS BEEN EXTREMELY FASCATG TO WATCH. BUT NSIRG HOW MUCH OF THE SHOW IS LARGELY WRTEN OM A MALE PERSPECTIVE AND BY MEN, ULD BE H OR MISS, LIKE PREV EPISOS THAT HAVE SPOTLIGHTED HER. OVERALL, SEEMS LIKE THE SHOW IS TRYG TO RRECT SOME CRICISM ’S RECEIVED THE PAST FOR S SOMETIM STEREOTYPIL PORTRAYAL OF BLACK WOMEN. WHETHER PAYS OFF THIS TIME, WE’LL HAVE TO SEE. KYNDALL CUNNGHAM
- NENE AND HER GAY BOYIEND
- HGTV ON HULU: JT THE GAY COUPL, PLEASE!
- ‘RHOA’ REP: DREW’S ASSISTANT ALLEGEDLY SPREADS GAY MOR ABOUT HER HBAND
‘ATLANTA’ SEASON 3 OPENS WH A WHE LBIAN COUPLE’S HOE OF HORRORSLONG-AWAITED RETURNFXTHE TWO-EPISO PREMIERE OF THE FX SERI’ HIGHLY ANTICIPATED THIRD SEASON WAS SPIRED BY THE DISTURBG TE STORY OF THE HART FAY AND A$AP ROCKY’S TAMENT SWEN.KYNDALL CUNNGHAMENTERTAMENT REPORTERUPDATED MAR. 25, 2022 3:38AM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 24, 2022 11:30PM EDT ATLANTA’S SOPHOMORE SEASON (OR ROBB’ SEASON, AS WAS TLED) SAW DONALD GLOVER’S EMMY-WNG FX EDY PH S WELL-TABLISHED PENCHANT FOR GENRE-BENDG SATIRIL HUMOR AND AVANT-GAR STORYTELLG TO NEW BOUNDARI. EACH EPISO FELT MORE ACCURATELY SCRIBED AS AN EVENT, WH THE HYSTERIL OPENER “ALLIGATOR MAN” FEATURG A REER-HIGH PERFORMANCE BY KATT WILLIAMS—AND AN ACTUAL ALLIGATOR—AS A PRIME EXAMPLE. “BARBERSHOP” WAS ANOTHER GEM THAT RIFFED OFF THE ALMOST RELIG VOTN BLACK MEN HAVE TO THEIR BARBERS. THEN THERE WAS “WOODS,” A WELL-EARNED THARTIC MOMENT FOR AL AKA PAPER BOI (BRIAN TYREE HENRY), WHOSE PRSN AND DISILLNMENT WH FAME WAS A THREAD THROUGHOUT THE SEASON. WH ALL THE EDIC EXCELLENCE ATLANTA LIVERED AN ENTIRE FOUR YEARS AGO—Y, KIDS WHO WERE HMAN HIGH SCHOOL WHEN THE LAST SEASON AIRED ARE NOW ABOUT TO GRADUATE—THE STAK FOR SEASON 3 HAVE NEVER BEEN HIGHER. OUR UNTRY HAS ALSO EXPERIENCED SEVERAL MAJOR CULTURAL EVENTS SCE THE SHOW WAS LAST ON TV, SUCH AS THE COVID-19 PANMIC, A NEW ADMISTRATN, BLACK LIV MATTERS PROTTS, AND AN SURRECTN. LOOKG AT OUR CURRENT TV LP, ’S HARD TO THK OF A SHOW MORE PABLE OF MG THE ABSURDY AND TRAGEDY OF OUR CURRENT MOMENT. DIRECTED BY HIRO MURAI AND WRTEN BY DONALD AND STEPHEN GLOVER, “THREE SLAPS” IS A NARRATIVE TOUR THAT HARDLY FEATUR ANY OF THE SHOW’S MA CHARACTERS. IT’S AN UNUALLY DARK SHOWSE OM ATLANTA, EVEN WH THE SHOW’S TRAGIC BENT, BORROWG THE DISTURBG TE STORY OF THE HART FAY—A WHE LBIAN UPLE WH SEVERAL ADOPTED BLACK CHILDREN WHO, AFTER ABG THEIR CHILDREN, DROVE EVERYONE OFF A CLIFF TO THEIR ATHS 2018—AS S MA PLOT BUT WH A MUCH DIFFERENT OUTE. JAMIE NMANN AS GAYLE, CHRISTOPHER FARRAR AS LOQUAREEO, LRA DREYFS AS AMBER ATLANTAGUY D'ALEMA/FX SEVERAL PARTS OF THE EPISO TERPOLATE WELL-KNOWN CULTURAL STORI. IN THE LD OPEN, A WHE MAN TELLS A BLACK MAN ABOUT THE HISTORY OF A LAKE THEY’RE BOTH FISHG ON OM A SMALL BOAT AT NIGHT. REFERENCG THE HISTORY OF GEIA’S FAMO LAKE LANIER WHOUT MENTNG S NAME, HE SAYS THAT THE BODY OF WATER ED TO BE A SELF-ERNED TOWN OF BLACK PEOPLE THAT’S CURRENTLY HNTED. ‘THEY WERE ALMOST WHE,” HE SAYS PRUMABLY ABOUT THE EED SLAV WHO HABED OSRVILLE. HE THEN GO TO A TANGENT ABOUT WHENS, THE WAY BLDS PEOPLE AND HOW ANYONE N BE WHE WH “ENOUGH BLOOD AND MONEY.” REMDG OF THIS SHOW’S TERT HORROR, THE WHE MAN SUDNLY TRANSFORMS TO A IGHTENG, ZOMBIE-LIKE CREATURE AND ATTACKS THE BLACK MAN. THE RT OF THE EPISO IS FOCED ON A BOY NAMED LOQUAREEO (CHRISTOPHER FARRAR) WHOSE LIFE DRASTILLY CHANG AFTER HE GETS TROUBLE FOR DANCG CLASS AFTER HIS TEACHER RMS THE STUNTS THAT THEY’LL BE SEEG BLACK PANTHER 2. (SEE THE FAMO VIO/GIF OF A BLACK BOY TIMBS DANCG ON A SK FOR REFERENCE). AFTER A MEETG WH HIS PARENTS, A GUIDANCE UNSELOR SE HIM RECEIVE THREE SLAPS OM HIS FATHER AND LLS FAY AND CHILDREN’S SERVIC. BEFORE LOQUAREEO N EVEN BE TAKEN AWAY, HIS MOTHER AND FATHER PRACTILLY KICK HIM OUT, ASSUMG HE WAS THE ONE THAT SNCHED. THE NEXT TIME WE SEE LOQUAREEO, HE’S BEG DROPPED OFF AT A SMELLY, DISHEVELED HOME OF TWO KOMBUCHA-MAKG WHE WOMEN WHO’VE ALREADY ADOPTED THREE OTHER BLACK CHILDREN. IN A FUNNY TRODUCTN TO A RATHER OMO SUATN, THEY GIVE LOQUAREEO HIS OWN TOWEL WH “LARRY” SEWN TO BEE THEY REFE TO LEARN HIS NAME, LOOK BEFUDDLED WHEN HE ASKS IF THEY OWN WASHCLOTHS, AND FEED HIM “IED” CHICKEN THAT’S CLEARLY UNOKED. PRACTILLY EVERY JOKE MA ABOUT WHE WOMEN ON TWTER OR THEIR ASSOCIATN WH THE TERM “KAREN” IS STUFFED TO THIS HALF-HOUR.THE FAY’S LIVG SUATN BE EVEN MORE PERTURBG AS WE REALIZE THE CHILDREN ARE BASILLY GLORIFIED SLAV, FORCED TO MATA THE UPLE’S GARN AND BARELY RECEIVG FOOD. AT A FARMER’S MARKET, WHERE THE FANCIALLY CHALLENGED UPLE PUT THE KIDS ON DISPLAY TO ATTRACT BUYERS TO THEIR TENT, LOQUAREEO TRI TO MAKE AN PE AND NS TO THE ARMS OF A POLICE OFFICER, RECREATG THE IMAGE OF DEVONTE HART THAT WAS WILY CIRCULATED DURG THE FERGON RTS (DEVONTE WAS ONE OF THE CHILDREN KILLED THE HORRIFIC CRASH). OF URSE, THE POLICE OFFICER IGNOR HIS PLEAS FOR HELP AND HANDS HIM BACK TO HIS GUARDIANS. ADVERTISEMENT WE THK LOQUAREEO WILL OFFICIALLY MAKE OUT OF THIS HOE OF HORRORS WHEN A BLACK WORKER OM FAY AND CHILDREN’S SERVIC SHOWS UP TO DO A CHECK-. BUT SHE MYSTERLY VANISH AFTER ONE OF THE WOMEN PULLS HER OUTSI.THEN THE MOMENT ANYONE FAIAR WH THE SOURCE MATERIAL HAS BEEN DREADG, WHEN THE UPLE TELLS THE KIDS THEY’LL BE GOG ON A ROAD TRIP TO THE GRAND CANYON. THE IMAGE OF THE FAY PILG TO THE VEHICLE IS JARRG AND NOT SOMETHG YOU NECSARILY WANT TO VISUALIZE. EVEN WH THE “HAPPY” ENDG OF THE CHILDREN JUMPG OM THE TNK OF THE VAN BEFORE THE UPLE PLUNG TO LAKE LANIER, HARDLY OBSCUR THE IMAGE OF THE MASS CHILD MURR THAT OCCURRED REAL LIFE. “EVEN WH THE “HAPPY” ENDG OF THE CHILDREN JUMPG OM THE TNK OF THE VAN BEFORE THE UPLE PLUNG TO LAKE LANIER, HARDLY OBSCUR THE IMAGE OF THE MASS CHILD MURR THAT OCCURRED REAL LIFE.” ULTIMATELY, THIS SHORT STORY IS A DREAM, AS WE SEE EARN WAKE UP A BED NEXT TO A RANDOM WOMAN AND TRANSN TO EPISO 2. “STERKLAAS IS COMG TO TOWN” IS FORTUNATELY MUCH LIGHTER AND FEELS DISTCTLY ATLANTA-QUE, AS FEATUR THE ST MOSTLY HANGG OUT AND TONS OF BLACKFACE.EARN WAK UP OM A ONE-NIGHT STAND TO HIS PHONE BLOWG UP WH MSAG OM SWISSAIR REMDG HIM OF HIS FLIGHT, VAN (ZAZIE BEETZ) ASKG WHY HE HASN’T PICKED HER UP YET, AL SAYG HE NEEDS $20K, AND DARI (LAKEH STANFIELD) TELLG HIM HE ATE A PERSIMMON. WE’RE NOT SURE WHY EARN IS COPENHAGEN WHILE EVERYONE ELSE IS AMSTERDAM, BUT HE FLI TO THE DUTCH CY WHERE PAPER BOI HAS A SHOW.WHEN HE ARRIV, HE LEARNS THAT AL GOT ARRTED AND IS BEG HELD A JAIL THAT’S PRACTILLY A THREE-STAR HILTON. THE ENTIRE SCENAR RELLS A$AP ROCKY’S TAMENT SWEN 2019 AND THE ASSUMPTN MA BY SOME PEOPLE ONLE THAT HE WAS ACTUALLY DOG PRETTY WELL THANKS TO PHOTOS OF SWEDISH JAIL CELLS REMBLG STUD APARTMENTS MANHATTAN. IN THAT WAY, THE B FEELS A LTLE EXPIRED NSIRG HOW MUCH PUBLIC NSCNS ABOUT THE PRISON SYSTEM HAS ADVANCED SCE THEN. BUT WATCHG AL TELL THE PRISON GUARD THAT HE WANTS HIS MEAL BEFORE HE LEAV LEFT ME SHAMBL. ADVERTISEMENT EARN (DONALD GLOVER) AND PAPER BOI (BRIAN TYREE HENRY) ATLANTACO OLAKUNLE/FX MEANWHILE, DARI PICKS UP VAN AT THE AIRPORT FOR EARN. THE LAST TIME WE HEARD OM VAN, SHE WAS TEXTG EARN THAT SHE PLANNED ON MOVG WH HER MOM. BUT NOW SHE’S EUROPE, SEEMGLY ON EARN’S DIME, AN ATTEMPT TO REDISVER HERSELF AND TAKE WHATEVER OPPORTUNI ARE PRENTED. SHE ALSO MENTNS THAT SHE HAS A BOYIEND. SHE AND DARI HEAD TO A STORE WHERE SHE FDS A PIECE OF PAPER SI A AT POCKET WH AN ADDRS AND CIS TO GO THERE FOR THE HECK OF . THEY’RE GREETED BY A WOMAN WHO ASSUM THEY’VE E TO PICK HER AND SOME OTHER PEOPLE UP TO GO TO WHAT APPEARS TO BE A WAKE. AT THE HOE, WHICH LOOKS LIKE A SET OM MIDSOMMAR, VAN HAS A VAGUE DISCSN WH A ATH DOULA WHERE SHE MENTNS THAT SHE’S “PRETTY AIMLS RIGHT NOW.”THE FUNNIT PART OF THE EPISO OCCURS WHEN VAN WALKS OVER TO WHAT ORIGALLY LOOKS LIKE A RPSE BUT IS REALLY AN UNNSC MAN TRANSNG TO ATH TO SAY SOME FAL WORDS. AFTER TELLG HIM “’S GOG TO BE OK,” THE DOULA RELEAS A NTRAPTN THAT SUFFOT THE MAN. THIS JARRG MOMENT THE MIDDLE OF A SERENE VIGIL IS HILAR AND OF SELF. BUT THE AMOUNT OF EFFORT THE MAN PUTS TO TRYG TO PE AND HOW LONG TAK FOR HIM TO STOP BREATHG SUGGTS THAT HE WASN’T ACTUALLY DYG AND WAS MAYBE JT ASLEEP. ZAZIE BEETZ AS VAN ATLANTACO OLAKUNLE/FX MEANWHILE, EE OM HIS LUXUR PRISON STAY, AL IS GETTG READY TO PERFORM AT A VENUE LATER THAT NIGHT. HE AND AL ENUNTER A MAN DRSED LIKE STERKLAAS WH A BABY BLACKFACE DRSED AS THE NTROVERSIAL ZWARTE PIET (OR BLACK PETE) CHARACTER. THEIR DRIVER RMS THEM THAT BLACK PETE IS ACTUALLY JT A CHILD THAT’S FALLEN A CHIMNEY, BUT ANYONE WHO’S READ ABOUT THE RECENT NTROVERSI SURROUNDG THE TRADN AND S FTIVALS KNOWS THE CHARACTER IS RACIALIZED. WE ALSO FD OUT AL WAS ARRTED AFTER TWO WOMEN HE WAS HAVG A THREOME WH GOT TO A PHYSIL ALTERTN. ADVERTISEMENT JT BEFORE AL IS SET TO PERFORM, HE SE THE DIENCE, ALL MA UP LIKE BLACK PETE, AND DCH THE SHOW. WHEN EARN NOTIFI THE BOOKER, HE TRI TO CHASE HIM DOWN BUT N’T TELL HIM APART OM THE BLACK PET THE LOBBY AND STARTS PUNCHG ONE OF THEM. AFTER THIS EXTREMELY SILLY JOKE, WE END ON EARN ARRIVG AT HIS HOTEL ROOM AND SEEG VAN THE LOBBY. THE TWO BARELY EXCHANGE WORDS BUT APPEAR TO BE A GOOD PLACE.AT THIS MONTH’S SXSW, GLOVER PROMISED THAT THIS SEASON WOULD BE MORE ABOUT VAN, WHICH IS SOMETHG TO BE EXCED AND SLIGHTLY TENTATIVE ABOUT. VAN—AND BEETZ’S AMGLY DRY EMBODIMENT OF HER—HAS ALWAYS BEEN EXTREMELY FASCATG TO WATCH. BUT NSIRG HOW MUCH OF THE SHOW IS LARGELY WRTEN OM A MALE PERSPECTIVE AND BY MEN, ULD BE H OR MISS, LIKE PREV EPISOS THAT HAVE SPOTLIGHTED HER. OVERALL, SEEMS LIKE THE SHOW IS TRYG TO RRECT SOME CRICISM ’S RECEIVED THE PAST FOR S SOMETIM STEREOTYPIL PORTRAYAL OF BLACK WOMEN. WHETHER PAYS OFF THIS TIME, WE’LL HAVE TO SEE. KYNDALL CUNNGHAM
Atlanta’s sophomore season (or Robb’ Season, as was tled) saw Donald Glover’s Emmy-wng FX edy ph s well-tablished penchant for genre-bendg satiril humor and avant-gar storytellg to new boundari. Jamie Nmann as Gayle, Christopher Farrar as Loquareeo, Lra Dreyfs as Amber AtlantaGuy D'Alema/FX Several parts of the episo terpolate well-known cultural stori. While argug wh the other tae over his own sexualy, Johnny yells his claratn that he is not gay.
Nigga, you gay. So you thk I'm gay? Detaee: This nigga gay as hell.
Man, I a't gay! Detaee: No, that--that a't gay; that's jt jail.
NENE AND HER GAY BOYIEND
Detaee:- Man, that boy gay as hell.
And, of urse, the Social Jtice Warrrs pounced on how homophobic and transphobic the black men jail are that scene. Mental health, prison btaly, homo- & trans-phobia, racism, all 1 ep. NeNe And Her Gay BoyiendPreviewNeNe updat her gay boyiend on "what's gog on wh the bch.
The other men the room thk he’s “gay as hell, ” and he tri to rebuff their claims by sayg, “Y’all niggas fuck guys up here anyway! ” An olr man is quick to rpond, “That a’t gay. As a southern gay black man, I suppose I n appreciate Atlanta’s attempt to needle at the ridiculons of homophobia and transphobia.
HGTV ON HULU: JT THE GAY COUPL, PLEASE!
I mean, maybe the du went to Eddie Long’s church, hence the nial and nfn, but there are more ntemporary ways to addrs homophobia and transphobia.
‘RHOA’ REP: DREW’S ASSISTANT ALLEGEDLY SPREADS GAY MOR ABOUT HER HBAND
For a show to tackle a rapper’s ambivalence about fame, mass rceratn, the plight of mental health re Ameri, homophobia, and transphobia 22 mut whout overwhelmg s dience is que imprsive. Gay people: we’re jt like regular people, bee we are regular people. But while I love a good fictnal gay (shout out to the legendary T Andromedon) and a good realy gay (RuPl’s Drag Race), I am nowhere near that flashy and/or fabulo my day-to-day.
That’s what mak the gays of the home-based realy show so revolutnary! And every now and then, you get a gay uple.
Real talk: the HGTV shows may be the only shows on TV to show what gay people are actually like! The episos let gay upl see themselv on TV while buckg all the stereotyp seen on scripted shows. The gay episos are diamonds the renovated rough; they’re hard to fd but they she so brightly.