Atlanta Season 4 Episode 10 Explained| We We’re Inside Darius Mind The Entire Time!
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- Atlanta is an American comedy-drama television series created by Donald Glover that premiered on September 6, 2016, on FX.
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I'm late to the party but I think Darius' character arc was about him always escaping his past but constantly being confronted by it throughout the series:
1. Episode 1 he experiences "deja vu" i.e. he is reliving similar events from his unknown past.
2. London and Cree Summers are hints to what this past could have been. With London she represents what was, which is them potentially having been in a very toxic relationship and both of them being terrible people through it all. With Cree Summers she represents what could be and says in her dialogue with Darius that she wants to be "part of this world" (maybe because Darius has always been in his own world for the whole series).
3. In Europe when Darius tries out food at the Nigerian joint it was a reference to him and his family. By losing the Nigerian joint to gentrification it represented the loss of his family who are no more.
4. In the Teddy Perkins episode we're confronted by two brothers who have a falling out which could represent Darius and his brother's troubled relationship together which is the reason why their relationship in the last episode seemed so awkward.
5. Darius gets no answer from his brother when he asks about his parents because they're both in Heaven. His brother telling him to be with his people is him telling Darius to not be held hostage by the past he needs to be present with the friends and loved ones he has in the right now in the present.
6. Darius finds out at the end of the episode that he isn't dreaming anymore because Judge Judy isn't thick anymore. He tried one last time to convince himself that his friends aren't real and are temporary visages in his life kinda like London, but he's proven wrong and his glad to realise that his friends, his support system are real and they actually care about him.
Darius' story arc is basically the show's story arc...which escapism. All the main cast members have tried to escape, Earn through his job, Al away from the world of fame, Vanessa through adopting personas that go against who she really is, and Darius in general. That's why the show has random surreal moments like Black Justin Bieber, the invisible car, Mexican Drake etc. In the midst of tackling real world issues people deal with. It's quite meta
I'm late to the party too, but what you said made perfect sense 💯
Now it makes sense as to why Darius clung so tight to Earn and Al. His brother, mom and dad passed 😔. That's what I thought it symbolized when his brother told him to go out there, don't stay in here. And Darius asked how the parents were which made me think that the brother and parents are in the same place and when he said, "I miss you". That was sooo final. Poor Darius.
But he met Earn in the first episode. If it was ALL a dream Earn would have been a background dream character not someone he grew close with. Only the finale was the dream.
darius was trying to save everyone people in his life that died through his dream. he saved london from getting shot by the cop, he saved his brother by giving him his medication, he daved the group from eating the fish
How did he save Londyn from getting shot by the cop?
I don't think he saved his brother. It seems as if his brother was sick and passed and his parents had also passed
@@jasminehill6312 I think the metaphor is he gave his brother the medicine to try to save him. But he’s already dead. I get what he was trying to say.
I like this, he tried to save london by telling her "act white" when she runs away she says this is all your fault and he was holding the gun. He picked up his brother's meds but when he initially asked the lady said "we dont have a script for you" and i dont remember if he ever actally gave it to me. Then when demarcus threatened them with the poison fish lol Darius comes thru to saves them
It was not all a dream the whimsical/surreal things like the invisible car.... we're dreams throught the seasons he said he goes once a week and when he saved them he thought he was dreaming but he was not because his thick judge Judy thing could never work she has always been thick in the real world so he can't really tell if he's in or out👩🏽🦯
Most times in our dreams we are great or heralded, the protagonist. When Earn was asked in therapy who he trusts, Earn only mentioned Darius. That could be another element that adds to Darius being bigged up in his own dream. Who knows?
I think Don Glover is telling us that the whole show is a dream from his imagination from the start, we love them but they were never real real.
I agree. I remember this part in DG mixtape he said I had dream I ran ATL and think he definitely is showing through this series .
Naw. It doesn't play. For several reasons. But one Earn and Darius met after the show began. Everyone else knew each other. Van and Earn would have been random background dream characters in that case not close friends. The finale was the dream.
The photo of Darius with his brother, and I mean from the position they in, the clothes the black and white AND the dam people look just like em - anyway it looks exactly like a pic of Zev Love X and DJ SUBROC from KMD.
That's DOOM and his brother who passed away. No one's caught it yet.
if you watch the show from the beginning it makes even more sense. We started the show watching it from earns perspective so we focused on him and his rise as a manager and of course al as a rapper. But if you watch it solely through Darius's eyes you see that he knows something that no one else knows.
I think Darius saw the real Judy at the end imo
I thought that at first. Then I had the realization that it was night time. Ain't a channel on earth that airs Judge Judy at night 🤔
@@Peacekeepa317 yeah but like, in Atlanta anything can be altered. A black Justin Bieber, a Mexican drake?. I feel like the creators made the ending really ambiguous on purpose. But truly speaking tho, I feel like realistically the police sirens and the reflection of our main characters should prove why Darius isn’t dreaming.
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The prescription was for Eze (Pronounced Eh-Zeh) It's an Igbo word that depending on where the stress and tone is place in the word, can mean King. Final rock solid indicator of his Nigerianness.
Thought it meant his Brother died from Aids like Eazy E
Did they all at some point experience sensory deprivation? In the very first episode of the season Van and Earn were trapped in a mall. They went through a door that was wet and carpeted. Throughout the entire season I kept asking myself what is the purpose of all these trap doors and Darius' episode answered the question without really answering the question lol. The season finale was funny and I will truly miss this show. Enjoyed your review.
Remember how he went through that lil area to get to D’Angelo too lol
I always wondered what that area was & why it was never shown to us .
@@Moonkidmax yes I remember
@@cam62cam811 I did too.
Earn is always crawling through tight spaces hoping theres salvation. Al is always wandering alone searching for meaning. Darius grief makes him question reality. Vanessa struggles with her identity and self.
I’m bout to binge watch from season one with this whole new perspective in mind!✨
Me too!
My favorite show ever. A case could be made that maybe that moment wasn’t a dream and it was Darius realization that the moment he just went through with his friends was real. Superb ending. Superb show. Gonna miss your reviews of it as well 😢
Me too 😭 this episode was so bittersweet!
It was all Darius’ dream. It all makes sense. I’m glad they ended it with my favorite character speculating reality.
that brother with the bowtie was speaking real truth tho about how we dont trust our own like a black person owning a sushi restaurant but yet the best sushi place is sold in a japanese train station. sushi is usually sold warm and prepared with bare hands but they acted like the brother was unsanitary for doing it.
Yet we get hyped over buying Southern fried chicken from some Italian dude whose name sounds like he belongs to a New Jersey crime family! 😄😄😄
A lot of us definitely have a "white man's ice is colder" mentality sadly...
Can't believe its all over. The end of an era. Can't wait to discuss with y'all on Sunday
That’s gonna be one long live! Let me stretch NOW! 😭 We have so much to discuss!
Lol idk, I think it was real. If I’m not mistaken I believe I heard sirens in the background as he stared at the tv with that frantic look. As if Judge Judy wasn’t thick. But, I agree this episode makes you question was anything real? Or was it all a dream.
Lmao, Darius was the protagonist the whole time.
Classic episode. I can’t think of a better send off for the series. They did an awesome job on this season and the last ep. You get every emotion humor, sadness/grief, joy, you name It. Such a crazy episode to a crazy show, I couldn’t think of a better ending to this show!
I'm wondering if Cree Summer was Darius' mom getting medicine for her "baby" aka Darius' brother. She seemed to have some mental health issue and stopped taking meds (she mentioned some heavy stuff that treats more than anxiety), which could have led to her passing due to her own doing, based on what she said. The brother is clearly gone, which makes me wonder if every main character in Atlanta is dead.
In the first episode Darius remembered seeing that dog, because he was reliving a memory in the tank. Earn wakes up after the cold open wearin headphones and said he had a weird dreams about hands pulling him down...Paperboi literally "bought the farm" The question becomes when did everyone die? Was their whole journey never realized and Earn and Al died in the parking lot? The rest of the show is Darius imagining them making it big. That's why every episode has a surreal moment.
Nah fam that’s just intellectually lazy. The they were all dead the whole time trope has been done to death and would actually make the show worse in retrospect.
@@memyselfi9576 "it was all a dream" was also done several times before (Roseanne, Newhart, St. Elsewhere), The trope of the ambiguous ending was done before too - Sopranos and Inception...just because Atlanta had it's own spin on it, doesn't mean it's lazy or bad writing. Though I think it having multiple "correct" interpretations gives this show the edge over all the other times the tropes have been used.
There is absolutely 0 reason to believe that they were all killed in the pilot. They pulled guns on the guy who kicked the mirror but at no point in that interaction did the stranger have the upper hand.
@@dashfriday974 He said his people were "right over there" That could have been a diversion, but they were walking back and forth from that spot off camera. He also had a gun too, as did Earn. Darius saw the same dog that Earn saw when he had his headphones on while riding the bus. There was another episode with Earn laying on the couch - again wearing headphones - staring down the barrel of a gun...
They never explained how Darius was the only one who didn't go to jail like Earn and Paperboi, unless he ran from the cops like the other guy did..but then he went down to the police station to bail out Paperboi. Why wasn't Darius locked up, but the other two were? - Because maybe no one really got locked up and something else happened.
Also Cree Summer played Freddy on A Different World....implying he's living in a different world.. and Freddy Kruger in the movies made dreams seem lifelike to the dreamer to the point they could never escape...the death parallel is there too....I think that what Cree Summer's presence was alluding to (in addition with her potentially being his mother, both figuratively by being a weird Black character on a show that predated Atlanta and literally in terms of the character in this episode)
Darius created his own private Atlanta and Earn, Van, and Al got pulled into it.
I am starting to think that Darius was the one shot in Season 1 Episode 1...after he kept seeing the "bowtie brotha" and German shepherd with Texas...we then started to experience Darius's mind after that point.
I'm scrolling through and all I read was "shepherd with Texas". For whatever reason I thought you were talking about my hometown, Shepherd, TX. lol.
When he chose Thicc Judge Judy as his totem, I hollered because of the Thicc Judge Judy meme😂😂😂😂!
So that's actually it no more Atlanta a end of an era😢
I don’t think it was all a dream. Darius has always lived in his own dream-like world. He’s the Kramer of the group 😅. Also interesting, I think we saw things through all of their dreams at times, considering last season especially, possibly in Ern’s dream. Also in Paper Boi’s Amsterdam dreamlike trip.
- Lakeith Stanfield's brother was killed in real life when he was young.
- I think Darius' brother died of an illness and he regrets not being around for him more, which is why his brother looks surprised to see him at the door.
- His parents probably passed away. That's why D asks his brother how the parents are doing after he says he misses him.
😢😢😢 I want to know so much more about that entire situation!
@@StruggleReviewzTV I feel you on that. Great breakdown and review. Keep it up!
@@dontemakesbeats123 thank you!
I totally agree, because that was my exact outlook on the situation!💯💯💯💯💯👍🏾
What makes this even crazier is the fact that IMBD says Darius is PLAYING Lakeith not the other way around which would make his performance throughout the entire show META
I’m wondering if that thing with London probably actually happened is why he has turned down after, maybe hitting a kid on a bike or he was actually a passenger with the accident. Like he’s moving through his guilt, as is the show is traveling through his thoughts on current events and theories of life.
Yooooo! That makes sense. Now I gotta watch the episode again
It was all a dream, just this day. Darius was in the tank from the beginning of the episode. He was in the tank thinking about what happened before he left for his appointment. As he left the house he went deeper into his thoughts. He was hungry and wanted Popeyes. He was hurt that Al went to the farm without him and he wanted to make fun of him. Darius sleep with Van last season. He was thinking about these things and in his dreams he had Ern make fun of Al and Al tell Ern the he sleep with his 304. At the pharmacy, they did not his prescription and he told them to look in the back. In the back of his mind. He was there to pickup meds for his brother. Cree Summer was a mixture of several people in Darius' life. Cree from a different world, a lady he has seen in the tea room at the center and His mother. He spoke to her as the lady from the center first. He spoke to her as his mother, his mother used to pickup meds for his brother and his dad thought mom was crazy because mom supported her son even though he was gay. His brother died of aids like Easy E. He spoke to her as Cree last, he always felt she had a beautiful spirit.
wow
Woooow u got all that?
I think it was confirmed Darius never sleep with Van, she was just watching Amelie like she say when she was in París (if I am not mistaken) and even they make the joke with Earn and Darius kiss giving the contrary of what people thought last season .
I swear before almighty God, when that thick big booty girl grabbed the cop's gun and hit that white girl on the bike then Darius woke up I said: "Oh this is where all the crazy shit we missed in Snipe hunt went". I can't be the only one who was thinking Demarcus gotta be related to bean pie-selling Nutella man from season 1. What's up with these militant brothers trying to make you eat something (no gross pun intended)? Anyhow touching moment but sad moment between Darius and his brother, it was both clever and sad to see the concerns of his mind, I guess his version of Woods or New Jazz.
I can't believe its over I'm gonna miss the crew and these group discussions.
I was waiting for this all day. This episode pulled at my heart but also made me think, bc I didn’t question anything bc it was tv, but at the same time looking back it makes sense.
I will certainly miss Atlanta, a black show that I enjoyed, got and felt seen because of its quirkiness. 💯 ✊🏽
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I’m gonna miss Atlanta
I think the scene with daruis and his brother was hitting at that his brother mother and father probably passed away and that he basically has no family left and that’s why we never seen his brother or anyone in his family and way he is always hanging with Earn and Alfred.
I might be crazy but I think I figured it out. Darius is the boy🤯🤯🤯. And if you don’t know who the boy is listen to Childish Gambino music and watch his interview.
That Hallowed out Blockbuster sign above DeMarcus's Sushi Restaurant is, Thin Judge Judy!! 🤔🤣 Our Reality is Still, Sometimes Greater Than Our Wildest Imaginations 💯😅🤣
The ending really is vague. Because either Darius was worried that he actually stole that mazzarati with the cops siren in the background, or that he’s still trapped in the chain of dreams where he tries to act like it doesn’t bother him while it clearly does. Both options could legitimately make a person cry.
Or was Darius dying in that tank 🤔🤔🤔🤔
There are endless possibilities with this episode😭
Stop it. Stop it now 😮
That's what I thought..the final scream cuz nobody came to open the tank.
@@africarib perhaps! But I think the final scene is when Darius finally woke up, and finally realized that no one is going to save you, but you‼️✌🏾
I think it was a dream because he says he goes every week and the show aired weekly, kinda saying every week when you tune in its one of his sessions
I think Darius actually had a mental breakdown down and that caused the stealing of the car at the end. I believe Darius character showed what it truly means to dissociate from life and it’s crazy how we kinda find out Darius is maybe Nigerian 😂 but this series is great will be missed
Darius is definitely Nigerian 😆 he told Earn he was Nigerian when he was dropping him off at Uncle Willy House and then Al said 'He hate Nigerians" when the nigga at the club was playing with his money and had to slap him up.. Earn said "Darius is Nigerian"😂 it be the little shit I love about this show
The same thought crossed my mind about consumerism when I seen that black panther master card commercial.
I feel like the whole series from season 1 ep 1 to the very last episode, Darius was dreaming. I knew something was up when Darius had pointed out a dog with the state of Texas on it like he had a premonition. All the weird stuff that transpired throughout the seasons, was all of Darius’ imagination. He’s been in the tank. He never left. Almost like….he drowned in the tank…
I disagree w/ you just a lil bout London. I think London was a friend from the past yes from wild days but a friend who has died and he has some sort of guilt from her death. That’s why in the end she says “it’s all your fault” then the camera cuts to him suddenly holding the gun & he jumps. He wishes he could have did things differently what ever occurred. I saw the sadness/hurt/shock when he first saw her and was reluctant to “go back there for that ride”. Just like his brother is dead and his parents. Like him bringing his brother meds and visiting, things he wanted to do for his sick brother but maybe didn’t; thus explains his brothers reaction initially. Him asking about his parents also gave us insight into maybe he didn’t see his parents as much (when they were alive) like his brother did. Anyways just my take. Yes with all the funny moments got us cracking up yet in still All of it is really heartbreaking when you think about it.
Last good show.. now what?
Literally nothing! 😭
@@StruggleReviewzTV Welp.. Glovers got a show coming out with one of the creators of the painfully hilarious short-lived "PEN15".. that.. could be interesting? Not Atlanta interesting but... 🙃
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As much as I loved Darius's weirdness I think we have to let believe Earn in the last scene, that them congregating in the Al's living room is real. Sure, anytime Darius was in the tank he was dreaming but not at the very end. He was grinning while watching Judge Judy on the couch because she wasn't thicc, validating that Earn was right and he was really there with his friends and surrogate family.
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I'm living in Japan right now and would like to say that I even turned down Blowfish here because I wasn't willing to take the risk lol. I'm from Atlanta and will miss this show so much but this was a phenomenal end of an era. Oh and that 'WHAT'S UP' they did is legit what they do here in Japan at the more local small hole in the wall establishments. Of course Idk what they're saying but they do essentially yell 'HEY!' when you enter. I just loved this episode on so many levels.
His brother was obviously dead... that's why his brother doesn't want him to stay there. his parents passed away too
I personally think it wasn’t a dream, at the end we saw the reflections of Earl,Van, and Al. I feel like that’s like a big hint at why it isn’t a dream, not only that the police sirens are real. Like if it was a dream wouldn’t Darius just get away with it?
Well Darius goes to the Dep tank 30 min a week. The show comes on 30 min a week. Season 1 eps 1 Darius gets a strong sense of dejavu. Darius is also the one who takes things the least serious in the show. Also Paper Boi is a famous rapper in the show but have you actually seen him rap once in the show? There are alot of intentional things the writers do here, once you really think about it...
@@DownHavenEnt it’s a pretty confusing story for sure, it doesn’t really matter if Darius is dreaming or not, as long as Darius can finally do something for himself and be happy that’s what matters the most.
@@aronistak8156 frfr, I could just be overthhinking a bunch of nothing😅
@@DownHavenEnt it’s such as a confusing finale
Great review as always Tyra, I'm so happy AshleySaysSo introduced me to your wonderful channel. I'm really sad to see Atlanta end & I will miss my weekly dose of LaKeith tbh lol. With the scene with Darius' brother, I think the brother & parents have passed away and Darius is here alone.
Yes Ashley is wonderful 🥰 And that makes me so sad for Darius 🥺
This episode was interesting even though this was a series finale I didn't feel the finality that one would normally feel in these types of episodes. I guess I was expecting to see the Will in an empty house moment like the Fresh Prince finale or Martin writing 1 Luv on his wall on the Martin finale. One thing we learned about the series Atlanta is that it's not conventional lol. This episode focused primarily on Darius as he was going through self-deprivation. While he was under self-deprivation he saw a woman he lost touch with who turned out to be a maniac lol. Then he saw his Brother who hasn't seen him in years which made him feel guilty about not seeing his family in such a long time. After leaving the chamber he's placed in a room full of older women his mind really starts to play tricks on him when the women erupt in laughter which causes him to spazz out on one of the women lol. This in turn gets him kicked out of the facility. As the episode goes his perception of reality gets worst as he steals a car from Valet & saves Al, Earn, and Van as they were being held hostage by the Sushi store owner lol. Then the episode ends where it began at Earns House this time with Van and Popeyes lol. The series ended where the series began with Darius being surrounded around the only people who have consistently been in his life. I guess Donald was trying to show us that the characters were going to live on beyond the series.
Notice his hat is reminiscent of the goofy hat...
I was surprised that the guy with the peanut butter sandwich from episode 1 didn’t come back in this episode cause I’ve always thought he was a part of the bigger picture
Ahmad White was like level 1 version of old boy on final episode. First episode Earn on a bus after spending all his money to get paper boi on the radio and buddy comes up to him and gives him advice and makes a Nutella sandwich and tells him to eat it and disappears in the shadows (with the dog with Texas on him) and in the final episode they tryna get them to eat the damn blowfish and the answer is still No, and the now tie nigga Gave them a speech and we left to Wonder at was real and wat was fake
Did anybody notice the camera work was moving in this episode when they were in the pharmacy. It was subtle but it reminded me he might be in the tank.
At his brother's apartment. Darius was not aloud to be close to or touch his brother in his late stages of aids. He asked if he could hug his brother and his brother said yes I can't get any sicker. Darius was hungry and wanted some Jollof, but he didn't want to be full for the meet up. His brother said that he did not want Darius in there, he wanted him outside, having fun. When Darius looked at the photos his brother disappeared. When Darius looked at the picture of he and his brother, he asked about their parents, he got too emotional and used thick Judge Judy to come out of that dream. He was in deep and had only came out of that level of his dream. Darius came out of his sadness and was back in Al's house. Ern tells Darius that they are friends, Darius' guilt for smashing Van. Darius was still in the tank at the end. The whole day was all a dream.
@StruggleReviewsTV I have commented on all the channels that you usually discuss episodes with on Sunday.I really believe when Darius and Ern had Deja Vu in Season 1 Episode 1 that Darius is " Us " ridin that line of knowing the Surreal and Reality the whole show, but in that same token is the whole show just a loop and The Big Bang is both simultaneously both the beginning and end because you never see who gets shot and that's why Darius and Ern have Deja Vu?
I wanna be mad at Donald but I can't because he did say it's black twin peaks. And I'm grateful all the characters grew and hopefully there's a movie.
One of the best finales I have ever seen! ❤️Great review by the way, you're awesome and keep up the great work!💯💯💯💯💯✌🏾
Thank you !
I think that Darius visited his brother in the "after life" and that's why his brother is like shocked to see him, and wants him to go back to his friends in life, and that he can't keep living in these memories, or whatever he experiences in the tank! but I may be COMPLETLY off base.
The situation with London. Darius was wild back in the day and he was abusive to her. She yelled at him to get in the car, like Darius used to yell at London. All of the things she does, darius used to do. He got uncomfortable when the cops was drilling London and tried to break his dream by thinking about homeboys from outer space. He dated London around the mid 2000's because he tried to break his dream again by thinking about a Chappelle Show skit, where day and his friends are high and hits a little girl. London runs away from Darius because he abused her, that's why she said it's all is fault. Darius has been stalking London as well, she keeps changing her number because he keeps finding it and calling her
wow, this why Atlanta is the shit, we all take something different from it. That theory is crazy, but not too crazy for ATLANTA 😆
Darius brother and parents passed away. Hence him bringing his meds and he asking how his parents were doing. His brother said he couldn’t get any sicker and he didn’t want him there but to go out and enjoy his life with his friends😢. He was in the ancestral realm Makes me think he may have passed away in the tank after he flipped over and the entire show is apart of his “dream” in the afterlife Most of Darius scenes and rhetoric centered around death or the appreciation of life.❤ just a thought
I'm really gonna miss the creatity put into this show. What an amazing ending, this show will forever be a classic.
Me too we literally have nothing else coming done the pipeline 😳
@@StruggleReviewzTV another thing in the end, you could hear police sirens getting closer, which I think made Darius realize he was out of the tank and he was content with his life going forward
If it was all in his head that is bullshit and makes the show pointless . In my head canon the show ended after season 2 .
The ending was so great for this show. You will never stop thinking about it, perfect. Most unique show ever made.
It's really a good show, you can literally watch em out of order and still take it all in, but it's best to watch from S1-s4 to really get it
When I tell you Im gonna miss this show every one of the actors/actresses have accelerated their talents and I love it. I wish we could get some more of this show. My son put me on this show and I'm hooked now I'm gonna go back and watch them a just because #replay
The best episodes are Barbershop, Alligator Man, Teddy Perkins, Rich Wigga Poor Wigga, The Big Bang(the first episode), jail episode, FUBU, Sporting Waves, B.A.N..this show been my shit since 2016
*LONG THEORY BELOW*
I believe Atlanta (the city in this series) is an allegory for purgatory and this show as a whole is Darius’s simulated purgatory and, as the audience, we follow his perceived remembrance of his real life and the lives of his best friends/family before he went into his own purgatory (whether that be he’s in the tank, he’s sleep, he’s dead, or neither is up for interpretation still).
Revisit season 1 episode 1, the scene with Earn on the bus talking to Ahmad White. Earn: “Are there people on earth that are just here to make it easier for the winners?” Ahmad: “Actual victory belongs to things that simply do not see failure. Let the path push you like a broken branch in a river's current” is this not the same philosophy we’ve seen Darius follow the entire show? Especially the final scene of that finale, the face Darius makes isn’t one of relief or fear, it’s acceptance. Whether real or fake, he perceives that moment no different and sees neither option as a bad thing. This makes him the victor and the broken branch
BUT thru the whole show we’re seeing the POV trials and tribulations of characters (Earn, Al, Van) whose entire existences in essence are to provide comfort or joyful experiences for Darius (the winner in this situation) in his own earth/purgatory simulation. Shidd in the first scene of the first episode Darius had Deja Vu of Ahmad White’s dog and this the same Ahmad White you only know from your dreams lol (iykyk).
Rewatching the series is great for connecting certain dots to the finale (or completely reaching which is still fun too lmaooo)
the surrealism throughout the entire series makes me think the entire thing was a dream......it was kinda sad.....really loved the Black & White episode last season with Kevin Samuels and Tyriq Withers....
31:22 i mean if everything from season one was fake, it would definitely explain the invisible car. The next question is what of Earns dreams? Where they a dream within a dream within darius'dream? 🤔
Lol unless parts were real and other parts weren't which could be the easiest explanation but then again which ones were those?
Darius goes in and out of the tank and experience similar incidents... The show drops this on us from the 1st scene... With the déjà vu.... The 2nd time he's pin pointing what happens on the scene... This was him in the tank the 2nd time... In the end the smile was him realising that it's real because he wakes up when he sees thick judge judy
I'm surprised Glove never made an episode in White Water. White Water is such a thing that all Atlanta kids know growing up.
I get it....she went to Hillman College.....in Atlanta.....wow
Something that no one seems to have noticed is the picture of Darius and his brother that he picks up. It's the spitting image from the clothing the positions they stand in the black-and-white and dam the actors even looked just like them - ZEV LOVE X AND DJ SUBROC from KMD.
That's DOOM and his brother Dingilizwe who passed away back in the day. Except it appears Darius' younger self is Subroc who died 1st. His younger brother look like DOOM did in the photo.
Darius is dead not dreaming. It's his brain trying to prolong death in fantasy dream states as he dies.
Popeyes was definitely a multilayered critique which I think could also be applied to the show Dave as well.
I think the whole series was a dream. I believe every season started out with a dream sequence or someone waking up in bed. I can’t remember season 3 exactly. Plus, the main 4 characters were the only ones who knew shit was off all of the time. Nah, it was all a dream, but it was all a great dream
Yeah, it was all a dream that was a construct of Darius’s mind to cope with the loss of his brother while being stuck in Atlanta.
Are WE LIVING IN A DREAM WORLD?? ARE YOUR EYES STILL GREEN GIRL TO ME IT GIVES THE Matrix vibe 1st season blue theme blue pill last season red theme red pill shit I feel like cuz ( Darius) sometimes
Darius is dead and the entire series is him reliving his life before he dies...The only information that Darius has is from what the crew tells him and his own interpretation of how he sees them individually, given the information... So here's an example... Therapy session Earn probably talked to Darius about everything that was dropped in therapy...Which is why earn makes it a point to say the only person that he trusts is Darius... Because that's how Darius feels earn confided in him and that is special to him... And so his mind is kind of filling in the blanks... So why do I think he's dead? This gives us the cause and establishes that he does this regularly... So what we saw is the last thing he remembers when he died... He saw the commercial which is where the story is based...he woke up twice face down in the tank...The first time the guy turning over has never happened... And then he's been sleeping for 30 minoots that's when he wakes up again face down and screams... The sirens that you hear at the end could be the police or could be an ambulance... So when Darius busts in to save the crew that's him sort of crossing over making up how his story would end with him saving the crew and giving everyone Popeyes.
Donald Glover does say "darius can die"
I don’t think the whole series was a dream because that wouldn’t explain the episodes that the cast were not a part of and other things as well. I think it’s just for the episode. Imma miss this show😢
S3E1: “3 Slaps” did end with Earn waking up from a dream 🤔
During “Three Slaps” there is an ad in the newspaper for a new Kirkwood Chocolate film so I take Three Slaps as cannon
No it was not all a dream. It's clearly a BIGGIE reference and possibly alludes to the finale being a dream. It absolutely does not imply the entire show was. At all. That doesn't work actually. Darius met Earn after the start of the show, what would be already into the dream and it simply does not play. Also throw that begging to hit like and sub at the end. Why would anyone do it upfront.
Darius had his own car in seasons 1 and 2, he took Earn all over creation tryna flip that corso puppy money in season 1 and in season 2 didnt Darius take Earn to the alligator man's house? I'm assuming maybe he sold it when they went to Europe for season 3
The situation with the sushi spot. Darius was hungry. Because he was told not to eat before he came to the spot. Darius wanted a Popeyes chicken sandwich and some jollof rice. Al, Earn and Van wanted Popeyes. Ern said he fucks with the yellow rice. Darius also had to drop a deuce. Cree asked if he was talking about taking a shit and Al went to the bathroom. Darius was yelling out in the tank because he dropped one in there. Darius wants to protect Al so he burst in the sushi spot slapped the owner like Stacy punched the guy in season 2. Darius is not violent, so to soften the violence he dreamed of pink Maserati. He protected Al and got everyone Popeyes.
A lot of ppl draw connections from another FX show, little Dicky. He also used this chamber in the last finale episode
When they went on they 3 year hiatus, everybody started comparing Atlanta to Dave.. which is understandable cause it's a show about a rapper and his manager and all that, but Atlanta definitely set itself apart with the last 2 seasons
The last scene gave me Seinfeld vibes. Darius is woke Kramer, Alfred is cool George, Van is boho Elaine, and Earn is blerd Jerry 😂
So glad I wasn’t the only one that thought this too lmao , even thought the Alfred as George thing still doesn’t really make sense to me
the length of this video is at LEAST 30 minoots.
I have looked forward to and enjoyed your Atlanta reviews! I’ll be back to check out future videos.
can you start doing reviews on random acts of flyness please
Love this! Very thorough
Thank you 🌸
something along the lines of death is the " true" beginning of life I think @ Sarah Santora was on the right path with their comment
Kanye West? Nah, you mean "Liberty" by Amnesty. The track from their Free Your Mind album was sampled by Kanye.
Yes I’m well aware but that’s not in my rotation I said what I meant
It’s all a dream. There are too many strange things in all 4 seasons.
I think he brother died from aids and he was dreaming seeing him , the Eze drugs were aids drugs.
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I don't think that the show was a dream. One major point, who dreams about being broke, selling weed with your homeboy while his cousin is trying to get him famous? 😂😂😂. He never knew Earn at the beginning of the show. He met him through Paper boi. I think that probably the last 2 seasons were dreams. Possibly. But not the first 2 seasons.
I don't think we should take the scene of Darius visiting his brother too literally because the vibe I'm getting is that it represents feelings of grief. Like when Darius says "I'll stay if you want me to" and his brother says, "I don't want you in here, I want you out there" I don't think it means his literal family doesn't want him around. It feels like his brother is dead and he's feeing survivor's guilt.
Maybe it's his subconscious, or maybe It's the spirit of his brother. Either way, the message is, "Your brother would want you to be happy. You don't need to wallow in sadness on his account, please don't deny yourself fun and friendship."
Perhaps his brother didn't expect to see him because he's so frequently self-medicated and rarely just feels his grief. And I think he's sad when he sees Thicc Judge Judy because that's when he realizes he isn't really there, that he isn't going to have jollof with his brother again.
That scene with the album was heartbreaking. His brother just leaves the frame and Darius is alone in an empty house talking to himself and it makes me wanna cry. Lakeith is wonderful.
The Power sturgle between laz-farie Darius and petty vengeful earn for van. When darius first meets earn he holding a knife behind a door. Also Darius inspired Vans madness In the french ep. Earn subtracted him self away into from the relationship electing to focus on petty battles and work. Cool
Did anybody catch the little boy dressed like a princess coming out of Popeyes though??
it really did turn to Legion at the end it was hard to tell what was real and what wasnt the fact that Donald Glover use to date Aubrey Plaza and done projects with her might be her influence on Donald Glover too maybe im reaching but Darious really feels like David in Legion if you watched that show its all in his mind the director of Legion also worked on the Atlanta i think it was episode 6
I think it was half and half or a mixture. All of the moments were real with some moments Darius reimagining them in his dream state, like in the first episode, opening scene when he says this is deja vu. Also, I think the creators give us a hint to the ending not being all a dream or not still a dream is that at the end you can hear subtle police sirens in the background, meaning it was real and now the police is coming to put him in jail. Also Darius reaction was different to when we saw him see thick judy. The ending smile could have meant a smile of relief now that he knows he is in a reality where he has his friends who are like family to him and it's all good and It's not a dream.
This was a great breakdown of episode you definitely hit on some gems I have yet to see other catch including myself. In fact I’m gonna rewatch your review. Needless to say keep doing what you do love your content!
5 min In. Darius live in the moment. The future doesn't exist for him. He had no arc to finish. He's gotten the most out of all of it. Also he dying
Everyone else was soul searching. Darius had gnosis from the start. He was always at peace.
Also in regard to answers - The show had no central plotline with the narrative that needed to be resolved they were one off episodes so really there was no conflict that needed resolution every show was self contained.
NO JUDY WASN'T ANYWHERE ELSE.
Its crazy. 99 percent of people misunderstood This is America but loved it. Now 99 percent of people misunderstood Atlanta entirely but love it.
Donald had like 17 albums, movies etc etc no one ever saw. So they of course misunderstand the little they did see.
YOU JUST HIT IT SHE IS A SPIRIT. bc he dying I promise
My favorite episode till this day is still Alligator man lmao
Is there an alligator in there?
Yea..
Is he Friendly with u..??
no.... 👀
@@jameshathaway1558 lmaooo Police said theres no alligator in there the kids said uh huh yeah there is thats the alligator man. this lives rent free in my head