season 3 closes out with a bang as it follows Van (Zazie Beetz) on a very unexpected, emotional journey through Paris, which includes a wild interaction with a surprise cameo by Alexander Skarsgård.
And executive producer Stefani Robinson breaks down what is easily one of the FX series’ best episodes yet. [: Spoilers for the season 3 finale, “Tarrare,” written by Stefani Robinson and directed by Donald Glover.]While the season was split between stories about the curse of whiteness and following the gang — Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry), Darius (LaKeith Stanfield), Earn and Van -- as they travel through parts of Europe, the finale focuses squarely on Van, whose story has largely played out in the background of previous episodes. “We really wanted to do a Van solo episode,” Robinson tells ET, using it to address why she showed up in Europe in the first place.
And once that was decided upon, everything that the character did was working up to what happens in the final installment of season 3.
So, in “Tarrare,” a reference we’ll get to later, Van is unexpectedly spotted by an old friend, Candice (Adriyan Rae), who happens to be in Paris with her two friends, Shanice (Shanice Castro) and Xosha (Xosha Roquemore).
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