I remember watching Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive and thinking that there were parts of the horror and darkness and surrealism and absurdity that spoke to the Black experience too. And then the show Atlanta came out, and I was like, they get it.
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I remember reading an interview with Donald Glover where he said that was his original pitch for Atlanta. The simple notion that what if someone made something starring and about black people, that had the aesthetics of David Lynch or the Coen Brothers
Now that I think about it, there is a similarly surreal and menacing tone to much of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. I haven't read it since high school, but there are parts of it I still remember because they were so strange and unsettling
That ep had me thinking literally THE WHOLE TIME goddamn something really bad is about to happen. Like the full time, every minute. I didn’t exhale until Darius was off the premises
My favorite episode of the whole series is in 4, it’s called “The crank that killer” and it is hilarious and absurdist and perfect. You should see 3 & 4!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZLQW2qr5Hs
i still haven’t seen atlanta 3 & 4 despite buying the fucking things. i’m like 25 years behind on tv.