The 5 Smartest Episodes of ‘Atlanta’

Bonsu Thompson
5 min readMar 22, 2022

Before inhaling the long-anticipated third season of Donald Glover’s hit show, we remind you why you fell in love in the first place.

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Is there an entertainment show that’s done a better job of capturing the experience of being unapologetically Black when surrounded by red, white and blue? Atlanta doesn’t just rep for its people or simply do it for the culture; it uses electric blue comedy as a force…

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Bonsu Thompson

Bonsu Thompson is a writer, producer, Brooklynite and 2019 Sundance Screenwriters Lab fellow.