Hey,
I have been honestly trying to make a blog post for the past few weeks I promise but I have either lost interest in the topic I wanted to discuss or lack the knowledge to do an in-depth analysis of it without leaving anything behind.
I have been honestly trying to make a blog post for the past few weeks I promise but I have either lost interest in the topic I wanted to discuss or lack the knowledge to do an in-depth analysis of it without leaving anything behind.
I guess I could do what I usually do in my journals and do like little bullet points to help flesh out how I’ve been doing the past couple of months. Let’s do this.
· Contrary to popular belief, I don’t think that taking this time off from school has helped me at all. In fact, this has been an incredibly unhappy part of my life.
· I also haven’t been working so in accordance to not going to school I’m also not working and I’m stuck at home.
· Now with all of these three things combined, I kinda lost my feeling of self-worth which crossed into dangerous territory for me leading me to be very depressed for a period of time.
Basically, this amount of alone time for myself have not been helpful at all. I realize I like working and I like not being broke all the time.
But enough about me, I kinda want to touch a couple of things before I go.
To anyone who follows me on my other social media platform KNOWS that I love love LOVE Atlanta. I may be biased because I like Donald Glover as a person in general aka comedian, actor, rapper and now producer of my favorite fall show.
Now what I love about Atlanta is that it touches on social issues like Black-ish, HOWEVER, he lets it get weird. For instance, it touches on sensitive topics but it covers it humorously, light-heartedly and slightly off kilter which is a joy to watch.
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| Courtesy of FX Networks From left to right characters Darius. (he looks really hot here I don't care...damn) Earn, and his cousin Paper Boi. |
For instance in episode 5 called “Nobody Beats the Biebs”, they actually cast the character Justin Bieber as a black man which I think first off was brilliant. It made fun of Justin and continued to mock him throughout the show as a vain and arrogant adult with his shenanigans such as peeing on the wall and getting in a fight with Paper Boi. Also, the writer of this episode who is actually Donald Glover’s brother Stephen mocks the media when it comes to the nonstop coverage of this caricature who is basically the human form of an asswipe.
But they let the show get weird with other stuff such as the dialogue in between the characters, blurring the mouth of a child cussing EVEN THOUGH they have a TV-MA rating and having an entire satirical episode that portrayed itself as a talk show with its own paradoxical commercials that Donald both directed and wrote.
I would also love to give praise to Hiro Murai who directed many of the episodes here. I love how everything is directed especially this one scene where Darius and Earn go into the woods in episode 4 because everything was shot so beautifully. He also directed many of Donald aka Childish Gambino’s music videos such as “Sober”, “3005”, “Telegraph Ave”, and “Sweatpants” and the short film “Clapping For The Wrong Reasons”.
All in all, I have been unhappy for the past couple of months but I know, that Atlanta has made such a huge impact on me when I watch it, I don’t feel so unhappy anymore. Thanks, Donald.
Sincerely
Jante
