![]() “Trini 2 De Bone” was a sad but amusing fable. But “Three Slaps” was both chilling and darkly funny. I didn’t love “The Big Payback,” which had interesting things to say about reparations and the historical aftershocks of slavery, but didn’t necessarily find interesting ways to say them. ![]() “Rich Wigga” also calls back to the fake Arizona iced tea ad from “B.A.N.,” with its tagline, “The price is on the can, though.”īut have the complaints been fair? To answer that, we have to consider two very subjective questions: First, have these anthology episodes been good? Second, is it reasonable for an ongoing series to make this many deviations from its core ensemble in a single season?įrom this vantage point, the answer to the first question is largely yes. (*) Coincidentally or not, “B.A.N.” was the series’ first episode to barely feature the main cast, as the bulk of it is a collection of TV and commercial parodies interrupted by occasional glimpses of Paper Boi on a panel discussion show. So Glover - who wrote and directed this episode, the first time he’s done both jobs since the first season’s “B.A.N.”(*) - was definitely prescient about at least some of what was coming. These loglines are a way of getting out in front of the criticism and acknowledging that viewers might find this new material self-indulgent rather than ambitious.Īnd people have been complaining, though primarily about the anthology episodes rather than the ones following the main characters. 4': 'It Was Absolute Pandemonium'īetween the four-year absence, the European setting for the Paper Boi stories, and the periodic anthology stories - “Rich Wigga, Poor Wigga” is the fourth episode out of nine so far to focus on brand-new characters who do not know Al, Earn, Darius, or Van - it is not hard to imagine Donald Glover and company suspecting that this season would not be as well-received as the show was in its earlier days. Why do they hate black women so much?”īlack Sabbath on the Making of 'Vol. Where’s the poop jokes?” “Rich Wigga, Poor Wigga,” meanwhile, is introduced as, “Black and White episode? Yawn. I mean, I like this episode about the troubled kid but we waited 50 years for this?” And Al’s quest for his missing phone in “Cancer Attack” was described as, “Sometimes shows just be over my head acting fake deep. The season-opening “Three Slaps,” for instance, carried the logline, “Wow it’s been a minute. Each has been written from the perspective of a fan of the show who is, for the most part, not happy with these episodes. ![]() In the final seasons of Mad Men, the weekly episode descriptions that appeared in TV listings and DVR program guides became hilarious in their spoiler-phobic vagueness: The logline for the Season Six finale read, simply, “Don has difficulties.”Ītlanta has been taking a different, but equally amusing, approach to its Season Three loglines. A review of this week’s “Rich Wigga, Poor Wigga” coming up just as soon as I tell you why the Five Heartbeats broke up…
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