The Canadian pop star may or may not love Atlanta, but we’d love to know what he thought of the season one episode Nobody Beats The Biebs. The gator even receives his own walk-out music and slow-motion montage as it makes its escape from Willie’s house – and, just like the rest of us watching at home, Earn, Darius, the cops and the local kids just stand and stare transfixed by this bizarre, brilliant scene. While his exact connection to Earn or Paper Boi isn’t exactly clear, his brief appearance on the show managed to squeeze in a police stand-off, a brandishing of a golden gun (another unintentional James Bond reference, surely), and, most bizarrely of all, the emergence of an actual live alligator from his house. Season two arrived earlier this month by delivering an odd but strangely satisfying opening episode which introduced us to Uncle Willie. The shooting which precedes the car accident sees the episode take a momentary dark turn, before the arrival of the invisible car then manages to put an entirely different spin on the tragic scene: it’s black comedy at its devastating, hilarious best. Even the aforementioned German episode, Helen, served as an important milestone for Van’s character (played by Deadpool 2 actress Zazie Beetz) as she called out Earn’s (Glover) shit while attempting to engage with her apparent German heritage – it certainly was a lot to cram into 26 minutes of compelling television. And it’s precisely that sort of unpredictability which has seen Donald Glover’s critically-acclaimed dramedy rise to an even higher plateau since it debuted back in 2016.Ītlanta is now four episodes into its excellent second season – titled Robbin’ Season, it’s due to premiere in the UK on FOX in the summer – and far from suffering from second-season syndrome, it has instead continued to grow and evolve in terms of how it regularly challenges its viewer. Set primarily at an increasingly-bizarre Fastnacht celebration outside of the titular Georgia state capital, the German-themed episode – which, with its cast of creepy outsiders and fair share of uncomfortable moments paved the way for comparisons with the kind of eerie atmosphere which so brilliantly permeated the Oscar-nominated film Get Out – seemed so far removed from the gritty depiction of inner-city Atlanta that you might have expected to see from a show which ostensibly follows the trials and tribulations of a Princeton dropout and his up-and-coming rapper cousin. Anyone who tuned in to this week’s episode of Atlanta could’ve easily been forgiven for wondering if they were watching the right show.
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