B.A.N.

One of the big problems that I have with various shows today is that they don't stay consistent with what they have started. Most of the shows change after a specific amount of episodes, and they forget everything that made the audience fall in love with the show to begin with. However, there are some shows that manage to come up with creative things, yet still maintain the same tone and overall feeling of the show. One of those shows are "Atlanta." Seven episodes in, and the show still manages to find new ways to impress me with its clever writing and new storylines. The episodes that have gained the most positive response from me have been some of the most creative episodes, and this episode definitely fall in under that category. This episode was written solely by Glover, and it is probably the best episode of the show, this far. I had nothing but love for this magnificently creative episode.

The thing that immediately appealed to me was the special format that the episode had. The episode is structure to look like a television channel, so it's basically a lot of commercial and a special news coverage at times. This idea was so creative and it's something that I would have personally never come up with or predicted that they would ever do. Even though the episode has nothing to offer the overarching story, it felt so great to have a bottle episode that was simply there to have some fun with the audience and do nothing but entertain for thirty minutes or so.

This is also the episode where the writing felt the most episodic, but I didn't mind that at all, because of the episode's format. It's meant to feel episodic, because that is how commercials are done in this day and age. When we get into the meat of the episode, which is Alfred participating in a debate about transexual people, and the approach that Al had to everything in those scenes felt so consistent with his character. Glover could have easily chosen to make the character a little bit more political in this episode, but he opted not to do that which I found to be the right move. Brian Tyree Henry was a standout in the episode and once again proves that he is great when it comes to comedic delivery.

This episode also did something that I didn't expect the show to do, which was that they called back to things that happened earlier in the season. There is a specific character that appeared in the premiere episode, and he is revisited in this episode, and the way they decided to approach his "return" was perfect. Also, there were some commercials that were revisited multiple times in the episode, and I loved the progress in these individual stories. There is also a specific character that has a substantial role in the episode, and I didn't know what to feel about him when he first appeared, but as the episode reached the ending of his arc, I really couldn't do anything but love the character more than I have ever loved any other guest appearances on this show. ... Maybe except for black Justin Bieber.

This episode is really good, i think i really like it because of how experimental it is/ was. Donald Glover does a great job with the Entire Atlanta Show ( This is my First Time watching the Show, but this episode deservers 10/10 stars so here i am reviewing it. ) the episode is unique and had me laughing, no matter if it was the commericals just being so honest and funny, the dodge charger arc was hilarious ( JUST WATCH IT!) the talk show with paperboi and the lady is hilarious aswell, and the fact they made a full on cereal commerical is so funny, the entire episode feels like a love letter to television, give it a watch. You might end up wanting to rewatch it.

If you want to laugh and continuously laugh this is the episode to watch. I could watch two hours of this episode it was tremendously funny. Whoever wrote this particular episode they need an Emmy. It was something very different as well not just a standard show that uses comedy or drama, but the concept of how they did this episode was just superb. I would've probably acted the same way "paper boi" did. I cannot imagine who did not rate this at 10, because it is certainly warranted to get the highest rating one could possibly get. Take my advice watch this episode if you don't want to watch the entire series you will laugh laugh laugh.

I died laughing when the swisher sweet and mickeys commercial

1. Alfred's on an interview 2. Dodge commercial 3. Harrison gets a bang

I love this episode. It's super meta, being a tv show in a tv show and it's so full of satire and irony. Every single ad of the Black American Network in itself is funny and offers a social commentary. It only features Black Americans in its ads and it almost looks unnatural to seem them act in a way that you would see in a normal TV ad. I also found the whole interview hilarious. The age-old debate of the rap community being homophobic or transphobic was featured and Alfred's take on it is probably the most common opinion. The reaction of people being easily offended or misinterpreting the person online is so real and it was captured hilariously.

In a comedic tone, this episode also questions you about your own biases before trying to preaching diversity to others. Harrison, a black man who thinks he's white, asks other to embrace his own trans-racial identity but he's transphobic and homophobic himself. I don't think Donald Glover necessarily interjects his own opinion or make a value judgement. He just tries to captures the conversation that happen in real life in a TV format. I think comedy is great in that sense because it expands the spectrum of the dialogue by allowing it more room.

While this episode steered from Atlanta's usual format, it's high class satire with a unique lens. Loved it so much!