Atlanta’s premise isn’t a very complicated one. While the show is about the city of Atlanta itself, it centers the character ‘Earn’ played by Donald Glover, who gets caught up in the local rap scene and his cousin Alfred Miles (a.k.a Paper Boi) career after returning home to the ATL. Earn does whatever he can to try to get Alfred’s career to the next level. Darius, the rapper’s right-hand man and visionary, is also in Alfred’s entourage. When Earn isn’t busy managing his cousin’s career, he spends much of his time with best friend Vanessa, who is also the mother of his daughter.

The simplicity of Atlanta provides room for writers to be experimental and that’s how Atlanta gets its originality. Because this show is like no other you have ever seen and in my opinion one of the most unique comedies in the past few years. It’s structured like a fairly typical cable TV comedy, feeling familiar at times, yet it’s smartly written. It is incredibly surreal, there are moments of extreme clarity on social awkwardness. The show mostly keeps a consistent chill/easy-going tone throughout, but there’s a scene in each episode that breaks away from this chill vibe and is just completely bizarre but yet fluid and personifies human nature.

The show’s dialogue is one of the most unique things about it. The dialogue and the chemistry between the cast feels so natural it’s almost like it wasn’t written. The dialogue is very ‘black cultured’, and the show tend to examine black-culture and social topics from time to time. The soundtrack on Atlanta is a mixture of club hits and underground rap music, and is one of Atlanta’s (both the city and the show) many fine elements. Even though Atlanta is easy-going, serious and chilled, at times it is also effortlessly hilarious. As many gags are inserted which breaks away from the tone and makes it bizarrely funny.

Atlanta is a much see in my opinion. It is well written, has good music, and main cast Donald Glover, Brian Tyree Henry, Keith Stanfield and Zazie Beetz all have good chemistry so the acting is very good.

Rating Atlanta:

Premise: 7/10

Acting: 7/10

Writing: 10/10

Plotlines: 7/10

Production: 7/10

Soundtrack: 10/10

Cinematography/Visuals: 8/10

Overall Ratings: 8/10 ★★★★★★★★☆☆