This week’s episode of Atlanta was said by many to be its best yet. Even if you don’t think it’s the best you’ve seen so far from the series, you still can’t deny the sheer creativity of Episode 7.
This episode featured a “show within a show” concept, as Paper Boi was a guest on Montague, a talk show on the fictional Black American Network. It featured Paper Boi discussing race and sexuality in hip-hop with it’s Don Lemon-esque host, portrayed by Underground’s Alano Miller. There was even a segment of the show where a person, played by viral star Nileseyy Niles, found out he was “transracial” (we’re looking at you Dolezals of the world) & is a 35-year-old white man in a black teen’s body.
if mirrors lie who can u trust? #AtlantaFX pic.twitter.com/lBMKRTceIn
— AtlantaFX (@AtlantaFX) October 12, 2016
But one of the most intriguing parts of the episode came in the form of a faux commercial. This episode was embedded with comedic commercials, featuring brands like Dodge, Arizona and Swisher Sweets. One of the commercial parodies was for a cereal called “Coconut Crunchos,” which seems to resemble commercials from cereal companies like Trix and Lucky Charms.
In it, three black kids are in a temple-like location with their cereal when a wolf comes to steal their cereal. Then, out of nowhere, a cop appears and tackles the wolf. The kids tell the officer to leave the wolf alone and it’s just cereal, as they pull out a phone to record the situation.
Twitter was all for it.
Bruh they really talking about police brutality and parodying Cocoa Puffs at the same time #AtlantaFX
— Rokib Rasaq (@RasaqRokib) October 12, 2016
But for them to play on police brutality thru a bogus cartoon commercial. Let’s go #AtlantaFX for this message… for these messages. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
— Troublesome 96′ (@__GeeQ) October 12, 2016
Atlanta really trolling police brutality and I’m here for it!!! #AtlantaFX
— BAEyoncé (@ICUJockingJazzy) October 12, 2016
#AtlantaFX just clowned bet, don lemon, cnn, racist commercials and dropped the real in under 30 mins
— Jody Elizabeth (@jaj1311) October 12, 2016
They really letting Donald Glover do any damn thing he wants with this show. #AtlantaFx
— Cali_King (@Corporate_Rich) October 12, 2016
The ever-so clever Twitter account for the series let us know the status of the wolf’s case:
a wolf wrong for trying to steal cereal, but he plea bargained down to possession of spoon & milk with intent to munch #AtlantaFX
— AtlantaFX (@AtlantaFX) October 12, 2016
If you haven’t seen Atlanta yet, then what have you been doing? The attributes that we saw in this episode, among other qualities we’ve seen it, make this show important to the culture. It’s must-see television and we have to support it.
