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Atlanta · Season 1 · FX

Atlanta Season 1

Atlanta Season 1 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 9.0/10. 10 episodes on FX from 6 September 2016.

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BollyMeter9.0/10Season 1 scored 98% on Rotten Tomatoes and a Metacritic of 90 from 37 critics. Critics called it unlike anything on television - a show that used genre instability and surrealist asides to make its observations about Black American life land harder than straightforward drama.

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What BollyAI Thinks

Season 1 premiered September 2016 and immediately divided television from what had come before it. Critics awarded it 98 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and a Metacritic season score of 90, with the consensus that Donald Glover had created something genuinely new: a comedy-drama that used surrealist detours and tonal instability as precision instruments for depicting Black American experience. The San Francisco Chronicle called the scripts 'as richly nuanced as anything you'll see on TV or in a movie theater.' The B.A.N. episode - a parody talk show within the season - became a reference point for the show's formal ambition. Season 1 won Glover two Emmy Awards: Outstanding Lead Actor and Outstanding Director for a Comedy Series.

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98%critics positive · n=1868.6/10IMDb audience
  • “The scripts are as richly nuanced as anything you'll see on TV or in a movie theater.”
    San Francisco Chronicle
  • “Atlanta is one of the year's best, and it is like nothing else on television, maybe ever.”
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Standout Episodes

The hours worth arguing about — premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.

  1. E7B.A.N.9.3

    The episode deploys a fake talk show format - complete with mock commercials - to put the absurdity of media discourse around race on trial. It is the season's most formally ambitious hour and the one that cemented the show's reputation for formal invention over shock value.

    The moment: A Dodge Charger commercial that says everything the dialogue refuses to say directly.