B.A.N.
- Episode aired Oct 11, 2016
- TV-MA
- 24m
IMDb RATING
9.3/10
6.5K
YOUR RATING
Paper Boi appears on Montague as a guest and must put up with a tedious interview.Paper Boi appears on Montague as a guest and must put up with a tedious interview.Paper Boi appears on Montague as a guest and must put up with a tedious interview.
Erskine C. Johnson III
- Store Clerk
- (as Erskine Johnson III)
Damita Jane Howard
- Charger Woman
- (as Damita Jane)
Chris Greene
- Nathan Wielder
- (as Chris R. Greene)
Emmett Hunter
- Ahmad White
- (as Emmett Hunter III)
Featured reviews
I haven't laughed that much at an episode in a while, this is genuinely so funny. That black kid coming on the show with a blonde wig on saying he's a 35 year old white man hahah. Paper poi calling him Ellen and Malfoy lmao.
10c_cuaron
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.
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.
This show so far has been showing us, quite incredibly, the magical realism, the nihilistic parables, and the fuc53d up reality we have gotten out of our highly commercialized information age. As a student of ethics, social justice, and gender studies, I had some problems with this episode at first: I didn't enjoy every joke or understand every critical moment pursued. Yet I think this episode was depicting really well how people are isolated into tiny little boxes - of identity. And when we try to push those boundaries things get extremely difficult, if not entirely awkward.
For some of us, it is harder or even impossible to transcend out of the boxes we were forced into when they are limiting, demoralizing, or even oppressive, or we may just not even want to or never even though about it that way. For example, perhaps like many of us, you don't want to change your race simply because you get discriminated by cops/white people, you just want cop/whites to stop discriminating against/killing people of color. As a queer woman of color, I thought I would not like this episode while I started watching, but I was pleasantly supersized when I realized the sharp witted and brilliant commentary the episode was making.
Plus, the commercials in the BAN network were some of the best moments in TV - period.
9.5 for sure!
For some of us, it is harder or even impossible to transcend out of the boxes we were forced into when they are limiting, demoralizing, or even oppressive, or we may just not even want to or never even though about it that way. For example, perhaps like many of us, you don't want to change your race simply because you get discriminated by cops/white people, you just want cop/whites to stop discriminating against/killing people of color. As a queer woman of color, I thought I would not like this episode while I started watching, but I was pleasantly supersized when I realized the sharp witted and brilliant commentary the episode was making.
Plus, the commercials in the BAN network were some of the best moments in TV - period.
9.5 for sure!
This is episode felt weird and disjointed from the rest of the series. It's fine if the creators want to break convention and do something different, but it was a bit jarring to go from the end of episode 6 and being interested in seeing the aftermath of Van losing her job to...whatever this was. Oh well, I'm assuming the story just continues in episode 8.
As for the episode itself, I probably would have had a higher opinion of this episode had I watched it when it came out. Seeing it almost two years later shows how dated it is. The issues discussed have already been debated ad naseum so I was honestly tired watching this episode. After a while I just gave up trying to figure out what point the show was trying to make and just decided to treat the debate as comedic nonsense.
Not to be a total downer, the commercials while weird were pretty funny.
It seems a lot of people really enjoyed this episode, and I can understand why. Though, I just found it to be kind of unnecessary for a show with a season of 10 episodes. I will say, the episode was certainly creative and I appreciate it when creators try to break the mold and try something new.
As for the episode itself, I probably would have had a higher opinion of this episode had I watched it when it came out. Seeing it almost two years later shows how dated it is. The issues discussed have already been debated ad naseum so I was honestly tired watching this episode. After a while I just gave up trying to figure out what point the show was trying to make and just decided to treat the debate as comedic nonsense.
Not to be a total downer, the commercials while weird were pretty funny.
It seems a lot of people really enjoyed this episode, and I can understand why. Though, I just found it to be kind of unnecessary for a show with a season of 10 episodes. I will say, the episode was certainly creative and I appreciate it when creators try to break the mold and try something new.
Did you know
- TriviaThe episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series.
- Quotes
Franklin Montague: Paper Boi, isn't a lack of a father the reason you hate transpeople?
Alfred 'Paper Boi' Miles: What? Lack of a father? Man, you hear yourself? Shut up. Man, here's the thing.Man, I it's hard for me to care about this when nobody cares about me as a black human man, you feel me? Like, Caitlyn Jenner is just doing what rich white men been doing since the dawn of time, which is whatever the hell he want.
- ConnectionsFeatured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Best TV Moments of 2016 (2016)
Details
- Runtime
- 24m
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1
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