The FX comedy comes home.
Atlanta’s return was really a departure.
After a four-year hiatus, the acclaimed comedy’s third season debuted in March with one shock after another.
Donald Glover and Zazie Beetz on ‘Atlanta’.Guy D’Alema/FX
Except even that’s not quite right, because four of the episodes almost half the season!
broke away from the main cast to track anthology-style tales of ambient racial surrealism.
He’s kidding, of course.
“We’re in Atlanta for season 4.
The plan was to have this journey through season 3 outside the country.
Can you do that?”
Seriously, though: How many black-and-white episodes with no main cast members are coming up?
But I think our show has always done things like that.
It was the maximalist season.
The trailer for the fourth season features Earn talking, rather eerily, about all hell breaking loose.
These are all reasons to be somewhat concerned for theAtlantacharacters right?
There’s all this s—y stuff, but maybe there’s a hopeful side, too.
That was something that I think also came from the pandemic.
I think there’s definitely a little more hope this time around."
As always withAtlanta, though, expect the unexpected.
“Wouldn’t that be so disappointing, if our show just ended like every other show ever?
Who wants that?”
Atlantareturns Thursday, Sept. 15 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on FX.
The show streams on Hulu.
