Atlanta season three have praised the show’s return after a four-year absence.Created by and starring Donald Glover, Atlanta is a comedy-drama series that has received critical acclaim for its subversive writing and performances.
The show follows Earn (Glover) and rapper Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry) as they navigate the Atlanta rap scene, alongside Darius (LaKeith Stanfield) and Van (Zazie Beetz).In the third season, the show shifts location from Atlanta to Europe as Paper Boi embarks on a rap tour.
The opening episode, titled ‘Three Slaps’, is set in Amsterdam and doesn’t actually feature the main characters.In a review of the first two episodes from The New York Times, the show is described as being in “top form” despite the location shift, which goes “to new places while maintaining that unsettling sense of never knowing how the ground might shift”.The review reads: “The two episodes sent to critics for reviews are a mere peek, but they give no sign of the show’s having lost a step in the past four years.
Maybe the pause simply gave the future time to catch up.”An ‘A-’ review from Entertainment Weekly said the opening episode contained “the show’s boldest narrative experiment yet”.
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