Mfs blaming and name-calling not realizing it's literally mental illness... Jesus Christ

Anything to excuse poor characterization

Would've been better if she was a doppelganger or something. Would've linked it back to the paper boi thing, and earn too

I don't think white earn and regular earn are the same person or that earn is going to become white or some bullshit. Atlanta gets weird but not that weird. I don't think it's meant to be taken literally like some mcu end credits s***, I think its way more likely just a commentary on race and how it's only skin deep.

It's been touched on before how "white" Earn is and how he kinda doesn't fit in w Darius and Al, like what that kid says in the missing phone episode. Literally the only thing keeping Earn from being a stereotypical white guy is his skin. White Earn is just a hypothetical look at what that would look like. Like if Earn was born with white skin, everything else the same, raised the same, still went to Princeton, all that s***, just white instead of black, he'd end up like White Earn. Which is pretty dark ngl cus like White Earn ends up killing himself, like there's this idea of "if I was a c***I'd probably kms lol" but taken seriously.

But yeah its just Atlanta playing with how we racialize people. They did this with Justin Bieber wayyy back in season 1. The funny thing about race is that it doesn't actually exist, practically speaking, but we make it real through social structures and s***, like we actively racialize people. And that's a crazy thing to do if you think about it. Like people don't have a race until they get racialized. The way the Nigerian kid isn't black until he gets shot by the cops (aka until he gets treated as black by the system). And Atlanta loves picking this stuff apart, cus when u take a good close look at the process of racializing u can find some really weird s***. For example, it's ridiculous that you could have two identical people, only difference being skin color, and get drastically different outcomes in life. That's impossible to really look at irl, but in Atlanta it's not impossible.

I think another part of it is the race-class thing. I mean the intro scene for the season is all about how being white means you don't have to think about race, and it's also about how rich black people can "become" white when they get rich enough to stop caring about race. Earn, Al, and Darius are all kinda "becoming white" this season. Atlanta already did a good job of showing what it's like to be black, I mean the first two seasons capture the black experience decently enough, I think with this season they were like okay lets make sure we get this from the white perspective as well but as I've talked about itt before it's a strangely very unsympathetic portrayal, which isn't what you'd usually expect.

Anyway, that's definitely enough words for one post

Deftones being the link between white and black earn is actually way more funny that it should be

Also that was the spoiler I read a couple months ago, white earns actor has a Wikipedia page that spoiled his character still mad about that

such an interesting episode tbh

p obvious its symbolic, like how every white person knows that slavery was f***ed up, lots of white people generally feel like some degree of reparations are deserved, but white America will literally end itself before actually acknowledging its guilt. What's the weirdest of all to me is I watch it and there will be moments where I feel bad for the main guy and then I remember that whatever he's dealing with is literally nowhere near slavery. Like I'm thinking "oh this is f***ed up dude" and then I'm like "well actually idk I mean it's kinda fair ig" and im still not sure if that's what the writers wanted out of me.

I like that the world has gotten crazier since they left Atlanta. Like since they're not there, the balance is off. Definitely seems to be the case cuz i think the anthology episodes are canon

Nah this episode they stretched it fr. Having little quick elements of surrealism is cool like the invisible car but they took Vans character and all sudden made her completely different. That’s not an arc. We went from her previous episode of just chilling being in her own world to now all sudden she’s doing extremely wild s***

Eyy . I'll be watching soon then

Hol up FINAL SEASON THIS FALL??????

That’s a cop out and the same exact excuse they use with school shooters “oh it’s due to mental illness”…..I mean yea they mentally ill, duh, but let’s not soften the fact it’s psychotic

They definitely could of did Vans character wayyyy better that showcased her going through her mental illness and losing herself rather than the direction they went. Feel like the message gets lost when niggas is confused by cut up hands and all that wild s***. Sometimes less is more and they really missed out on an opportunity to do a deep introspective episode on Van.

The episode was basically a bunch of wild confusing s*** and then a quick 2 minutes of on the nose exposition to explain everything.

I feel like the magazine was truly a step too far, everything else could have MAYBE been explained away by "France moves fast"

That’s what I’m saying she all over magazines, she dating famous actors, but yet also being a sous chef to a restaurant that serves human hands

Yeah this season a 2 out of 10.

This actually Season 3

Its season 3 of 4

I meant as in rating wise.

I know i was just kidding

Man... this was a letdown.

Sheesh. This the lowest rating I've seen anyone give this season