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Atlanta on Tuesday night

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If you haven't begun watching the show Atlanta by now, you're officially lost in society. Atlanta airs every Tuesday night at 10 pm, providing their audience with timeless relate able humor that's cohesive to the story line and our time period. As usual the whit comedy wasted no time in addressing political subjects. In this particular episode Paper Boi is a special guest on a popular talk show "Montague," who questions the rapper with controversial topics  While in the midst of one of the most historic Elections and critical ages, there lies Atlanta engaging all audiences. In this particular commercial theirs a road runner trying to steal the little kids cereal. Imitating the typical concept seen in most cereal skits. However unlike the normal responses and development, Glover decides to incorporate an example of police brutality. This demonstration provides an innocent insight of the perspective of the average human, especially minorities. Being that the ch...

FX Presents Atlanta

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With Atlanta currently being the hip hop music capital, it came as no surprise when FX announced a show titled Atlanta as a new series. The series stars Glee actor and rapper Donald Glover aka "Childish Gambino" as Earn, a struggling ATL native who comes across the opportunity to improve his lifestyle through the music industry. Earn is the cousin of a local rap artist, Paper Boy who's at the beginning of what looks like a promising rap career, that Earn offers to manage in attempt to gain income. As an Atlanta resident the characterization of the series shows dept insight of the ATL culture and personalities that you'll find in many areas of the city. Setting the base and tone of the series, while connecting each character to the main plot. The pilot episodes created instant interest for its audience, touching on topics like gun violence , influencing the youth, and of course police brutality. Which are all topics that are present in today's society. Overa...