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I loved it. The theater I was in was very receptive to it. I am a DC Comics fan and was prepared to grade it on a curve, but I genuinely loved it. Great casting.

They established in the first episode that the first interview was conducted in 1973.

Each week I think, "This is a my favourite episode." Then a new episode airs and I think, "No, okay, this is the one." Here it is again - my new favourite episode. Fantastic choice to have the episode from Claudia's POV as she is truly the only one who could tell her story. Bailey Bass is a fantastic Claudia. I also love that her impulsive nature isn't just because she's a vampire or a child - she's had a terrible childhood and has now, due to becoming a vampire, has found her power. She's a perfect blend of her vamp!Dads. Them treating NOSFERATU like a comedy was peak comedy. Louis was so desperate for a Band-Aid Baby that he didn't think about the realities of what an immortal life would look for a child. Just as he keeps throwing in Lestat's face that Lestat took his life from him, he took Claudia's (while saving it). Maybe he thinks it's a different scenario because unlike Uncle Les(tat) he was going to take emotional care of Claudia and be a better sire than Lestat has been to him. Be that as it may - as she laments - she is trapped in this child's body, frozen in amber losing out on so much of life. I can't quite fault Grace for being frosty with Louis considering his absence from her life and his increasing unhinged nature around the family, but acting like she and Levi should get the house because Louis is rich and doesn't need it is pure entitlement. And if you're asking the retain the roof over your family's heads, maybe don't sneer (and dripping with such disdain) about your brother's "white daddy". You need more grace, Grace when you're coming with hat in hand. The mystery of Rashid deepens.

I thought Some Guy Named Doug would turn out to be in cahoots with the killer; glad he's an actual good guy with trash beats. -I'm assuming Timothee Chalamet exists in "Atlanta"s universe. If so, he would have been a potential victim of the Crank Dat Killer as there's a video of he and his friends doing it. -Paper Boi was guilty by association because that wasn't even a great Crank Dat. If you look at the YouTube sidebar when they're watching Al's Crank That Jimmy Neutron video, one of the suggested videos is "Montague" from the episode B.A.N. - Loved the twist at the end. Paper Boi was really living that life. It was established in S1 that he had been shot before, now he has a former friend gunning for him. What was he getting up to? -I'm glad they got Soulja Boy to cameo. That was cute. -I lol-ed at the shoot out. Everyone thinks a good person with a gun can help out and maybe it could, but it could also turn into the Gunfight at the OK Corral as we saw. -Shoeman wanted to see Darius and Earn French kiss for those shoes, me, too, Shoeman. Me,too. I know some guys who will more than kiss each other to get a guaranteed drop from the SNKRS app.

Work Ethic!

Lestat and Louis have now been together for seven years and honestly, they should split six years and six months earlier - they are terrible for each other. Terrible for each other, but it's so fantastic to watch them messily navigate their vampire romance. Lestat likes to act like he's above most human foibles but jealousy and possessiveness still has him in its grip. Meanwhile, Louis keeps saying he has no family/will never have a family - thus compartmentalizing his relationship with Lestat into some other space that I don't even think he knows how to quantify - but was hurt when Lestat was catting around with Antoinette and didn't try to kill her. I guess being a product of his times Louis - despite his telling Jonah he has someone - he doesn't treat what he has with Lestat as a relationship - it's just a more open version of his boyhood bayou fumblings he had with Jonah. He's not treating it like they're a couple no different than a heterosexual couple because if he did he wouldn't keep hitting Louis with the "you're going to always be alone". Daniel calling out the differences in Louis' recollections in '73 versus '22 is interesting. Did Louis view Lestat harshly in '73 because he had just recently had a falling out and was reacting out of that and now, with 49 years under the bridge, he's able to view things with rose-coloured glasses? Or is this new recollection a way to paint himself as a vict someone was seduced and manipulated thus making him a victim.

We get another Teddy Perkins -esque episode this season with -instead of a Michael Jackson stand-in - we have a Tyler Perry stand-in with Kirkwood Chocolate and Chocolate Studios (a Willy Wonka stand-in, too). Whereas THE BOONDOCKS went after Tyler Perry for his presumed sexuality, ATLANTA attacked on all fronts - from the lack of quality control, the churning through of projects and the questionable depictions, terrible scripts and the equally terrible wigs, the show actually went easier on him than I thought they would. I think they actually went harder on consumers of Tyler Perry's projects than man himself. I feel they used Issa Rae's red-carpet remark on the Emmys red carpet about "rooting for everybody Black" as a bad-faith interpretation by framing it that Black people will root for anyone Black despite the quality of the work. Which isn't true and the writers know it's true considering Glover has lamented that while ATLANTA was off-air there were Black people saying DAVE was the better show yet people call him a sell-out. So is it okay for Black people to blindly support Black creatives if it's their product only? There's a whiff of elitism when it comes to people knocking Tyler Perry's work. I am no way a Tyler Perry fan but I really respect that he is a self-made man. Before he even did a feature film he was a millionaire because his plays and recordings of those plays were hits. He is certainly serving an audience. It's the same way comics looked down on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour but those tours were a success because Ron White, Bill Engvall, Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy's comedy spoke to a specific crowd. To act like those acts and type of comedy is less than, just because it doesn't rise to the presumed better (higher brow) level of comedy than others is a slap to the face of the audiences who enjoy the comedy. Not everything is for everyone and that's okay. If people want to watch morality plays (even if the morality presented is questionable), there's nothing wrong with that. Now the true issue is that Perry churns out the work and that scene of Kirkwood on the piano that churns out scripts is the play on the infinite monkey theorem. There's no quality but it doesn't matter because Kirkwood knows people will buy what he is selling. He has become a god of his own kingdom so it doesn't matter how his drive affects other people (fix it in post when post is overwhelmed? Not my problem. A mother wants her daughter back? Sorry, I just shoehorned her into several projects). But, again, to give credit where credit is due: while the entertainment industry was still trying to find a path back to work during Covid, they turned to Perry because he successfully went back into production on two shows with Covid bubbles and mandatory testing. I think the elitism issue was mirrored onto Van where Kirkwood showed her how her life was following the many tropes in his work. Van sometimes comes across as someone who is above-it-all, so that was her takedown moment of, "You may be different from these other people in a lot of ways, but you are not better. -Loved seeing Lottie. It's been a long time coming. -The soundstages being named after Tommy "Tiny" Lister, John Witherspoon and Mario Van Peebles was really funny, but also gratifying because there's a reason the term "Black Famous" exists. Maybe Tiny and John doesn't deserve a filmstage named after them but Mario does. And it's this -even jokingly - tip of the hat to their careers is why those Black awards Van seemingly pooh-poohed are important. There are very talented, very marginalized Black performers who are ignored by other awards bodies. Hell, even the Asian Excellence Awards honoured Rob Schneider because during a time he was a hitmaker even if his films weren't respected. -I don't know what is funnier: Kirkwood sipping grits, offering Van "a grit" or being able to shake off a grits attack. Al Green wishes he learned how to do that. -Shamik was so handsome! Why did they ruin it with him trying to get a leg over with Van in the boiler room? Also, his hotness to me was funny because people think Tyler Perry is gay because he casts all of these very hot men of questionable acting abilities. -Kirkwood saying that Lottie will make enough money to last until she's 20 (or something to that effect) was hilarious. And typical of Tyler Perry productions. The only person getting paid is Perry.

Someone spliced together Lestat's "You are a killer" rant against the scene in 1x2.

Also, if that was Minna who got locked into the freezer overnight, Becka would be looking morose. True. But she did cry at JP's funeral. Maybe because she was thinking back to how Minna was caught in the crossfire. It would be fitting as we've seen a pet lose their life, a man lose his eye and Eva lose Gabriel all in the pursuit of killing JP.

This was an episode for those who wanted the show to return to the basics. This was a throwback, straight-forward episode. Talking about return - I think we haven't seen Earn's parents since the first episode. Plus, the return of S2's Uncle Willie (Katt Williams). -Dang, Aunt Jeanie - I thought we were going to be buddies because you don't think anything about eating cough drops as snacks, but you're pure messiness through and through. -The praise dancers were a nice touch. -Really hated how Earn's dad's peace was disturbed by those kids. He was riding on that ego high only to be taken down a dozen pegs. -Gunna's appearance makes me think of PaperBoi's realization in "The Woods" episode. Al was finding some success but still living that life - still scamming, living in the same area and he was doing it to "keep it real". But his status was making that a threat. He couldn't keep living that same life. Then here's Gunna - rising, successful; attended The Met Gala looking gallant in Thom Browne and then a week or two later taken down with RICO charges and affiliation with a gang who are suspected of multiple murders. Just a waste. -Earn says he doesn't want to be like them arguing all the time, but he got short with PaperBoi real quick when PaperBoi joked about Earn bringing Jeanie to the studio. He took his frustration out on Al like his father took his frustration out on the waiter. -The Bobby Shmurda exit just leads you out into the open? No wonder he got busted.

As I am not a fan of the books and enjoyed the film, but haven't revisited it in a long time, I am completely sold in this interpretation of the work. Anderson and Reid are excellent.

As Colin is played by the same actor who plays young Julian/Johnny it's a safe bet.

Beautiful finale and Brandon Boyd is still hot. Praise be!

Queen Latifah, Will Smith, Mark Wahlberg, Ludacris, Andre 3000, Common, Mos Def/Yasiin Bey. Method Man, Rza, ice Cube, Ice T, the late Tupac, then others have more minor career in film/TV like Eve, Lil Bow Wow, Sticky Fingaz, Redman, 50 Cent, Fredro Starr - so they are out there. With Snoop, to me, the great achievement is that he's completely mainstream down to having a Christmas album and a cooking show with his pal Martha Stewart. As it is increasingly hard to make money solely by selling music, more rappers turn to other avenues and do not care if they're viewed as selling out or soft. Diddy and Jay Z have alcohol brands and 50 Cent had stock in Vitamin Water. Al/PaperBoi would surely settle for a deal like that to keep him clad in Celine.

I think we have now gotten a backstory episode and cause of death for all of the ghosts, or am I confused? Episode 4:

I can see it being Blánaid. Perhaps her telling Eva in episode one that she would tell friends that he died in his sleep was not (just) because of his death being embarrassing (that erection has to mean something), but because she directly or indirectly had something to do with his death and the sisters are trying to shield her

Last week Earn dealt in pettiness and this week the writers did their own little on bit of pettiness. I know Donald Glover and Brian Tyree Henry have spoke on the show "Dave" and how people compare the two shows and Glover doesn't think the show is honest, et cetera, but I think it's not worth their time to get their backs up about the existence of that show. Cop and hospital shows are allowed to be the same and follow the same beats; I don't find it crazy that two shows about rappers deal with rising fame and the traps of the business. So having "Atlanta" avatars of L'il Dicky (L'il Ricky) and his producer Benny (producer Benny Blanco is on "Dave" and he is great) is just petty. As soon as the show opened at a bar mitzvah ("Dave" had a seriously good bar mitvah episode), I thought how much it felt like "Dave". The idea of White rappers being more accessible than Black rappers was one of Glover's complaints about "Dave" - that it doesn't show the reality of that. Putting their collective pens where their mouths are this YWA plotline is the spin on that. It's Black artists capitalizing on White artists versus the other way around (though Usher never needed Justin Bieber). I laughed when the leader of that group's avatar was a Post Malone wannabe. PaperBoi gets saddled with a not-long-for-this-world Yodel Kid. I suppose it's too on the nose to have made him a Lil Peep stand-in, so we get the Walmart Yodeling Kid Mason Ramsey gone wrong (Mason's bit on one of the many L'il Nas X's "Old Town Road" was cute. I can't lie.). Now I wonder who's backing Jack Harlow. The D'Angelo plot was as crazy as we have come to expect with this show. I laughed when Earn's new boss said he needed to get D'Angelo and laughed as if D'Angelo was some big get. I just think that's how far back the boss' idea about what is popular goes. I don't know what to make of D'Angelo being a vibe and we're all D'Angelos, but I want to try their spin on Elvis' peanut butter, bacon and banana sandwich. Fried chicken and peanut butter sandwich sounds good like a downgraded version of chicken satay with peanut sauce. I'm curious if they thought of any other singer to reference because I think if you're going for a mythologized person I would think Outkast's Andre 3000; and unlike D'Angelo he's from Atlanta. But I think Andre represents that last step on the ladder of the club's leader. Andre is (was) a great rapper, but now we think of Andre we think Andre Benjamin actor. As the series is speeding through PaperBoi's career, if "Atlanta" had more seasons it would be nice to see if Al went the route of other rappers who turned safe actors/personalities like Snoop Doog, Ice Cube, Ice T, Method Man and Rza.

In a real life situation I am decidedly on the side of "see something, say something" but in this situation I am disappointed in Gabriel for grassinng on Eva to the Brothers Claffin. I assume the Gabriel / Eva fallout is because JP outs Gabriel and he will wrongly assume Eva told JP that he was gay. Ursula subconsciously wants you get caught by her husband because she is the sloppiest cheater. You don't kiss your sneaky link in public nor hold hands with them. Poor Minna offed her husband, I see.

I enjoyed the first series, but only pop in and out on the subsequent seasons. Mays and Graham are great.

So far so good. I was worried that they wouldn't be able match last season, which I personally think was the best season, but I'm glad the show is still in top form. THE MOST ATLANTA -Always going for the "pull from the headlines" moment, sadly, the knife-wielding employee in the wheelchair being sprayed with a fire extinguisher really happened. -I assumed the Blue Blood joke with new music being released after his death and PaperBoi thinking he was still alive was another Tupac reference (especially with the lyrics over the scavenger hunt montage. It made me think of "The Chappelle Show" sketch about Tupac rapping about things that happened after his death), but a lot of people think it's a MF DOOM reference and that makes way more sense. It has to be. Blue Blood's death being announced months after the fact, Blue Blood's delivery sounds like DOOM, DOOM's real name is Daniel Dumile (DD/BB) As for his widow's rueful wish that BB was able to have more fun and that you don't always get back what you give broke my heart. There's a huge hustle culture that preaches that it's all about grinding and building, trying to outdo others or yourself but it often doesn't lend itself to enjoy the fruits of your labor. As for people not matching what you put out - that's hurts, but that's life. -I hope Kenya hit that woman over the head with the air fryer. She shouldn't have her last memory of seeing "Now You See Me 2". THE HOMELIEST LITTE HORSE -Earn reached Eric Cartman (South Park) and Roger the Alien (American Dad) level of pettiness. That was a real ride. -Is this the first time they've referenced Earn being abused as a kid? -Now Donald Glover has me wondering if Kim Porter was sent home from the hospital because they assumed she could get over her pneumonia on her on. I assumed she never had it checked out and felt she would get over it. Sad if true. -I screamed when Tracy appeared. They are really coming home this season.

Yes, she always looks like that. Which is why, sadly, people couldn't understand why James McAvoy married her.

Very bold and sadly accurate to have Julian be a victim of childhood sexual abuse. They could have easily made it though he got into for the flash. I am onboard.

Same here. I don't want him to have a tragic backstory to explain his cruelty. I rather it's jut be who he is. No rhyme or reason. I am so relieved that Roger isn't a badun and wasn't interested in falling into JP's trap. I like how they resolved the Gabriel reveal to Eva. I wanted her to come back to his boat because they have an amazing friendship and I am glad she didn't toss it aside because it is not a romantic one. Working on a theory that Gabriel is involved with JP's death.

It's been renewed but I feel the finale was shaped that way in case the show was axed. And kudos to the writers for the recurring mention of Freddy's baking of muffins actually having a payoff.