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At that point, the genius-and horror-of the episode snaps into focus.

It wasnвЂ™t until the middle of the episode where the source of its inspiration clicked for me, once Amber and Gayle force вЂњLarryвЂќ to don a fedora and take him to a farmerвЂ™s market with a Free Hugs sign. (One of this episodeвЂ™s most absurd moments is watching Amber and Gayle attempting to make fried chicken with flour and their microwave oven.) Oh, and they changed his name to Larry. After a white teacher watches Loquareeous get disciplined (the titular three slaps) in the hallway, social services are sent to his home, and heвЂ™s subsequently placed in a new home led by two white women, Amber (Laura Dreyfuss) and Gayle (Jamie Neumann), who already are foster mothers to three Black children, a foul odor, and a lack of good food. He starts dancing on top of his desk and gets called to the principalвЂ™s office, prompting his mother and grandfather to be called to the school. The episode (written by Stephen Glover, directed by the mighty Hiro Murai) finds the aforementioned troubled kid, Loquareeous (Christopher Farrar), waking up from a dream to find out that his class is going on a field trip to see Black Panther 2.

Atlanta has always been a comedy unafraid of getting dark, wearing its weirdness on its sleeve, while hitting you with a gut punch full of truth.

I mean, I like this episode about the troubled kid but we waited 50 years for this?вЂќ) ItвЂ™s a brilliant diversion that sets you up for what Glover and company have in store during these Europe-set episodes, not narratively, but stylistically. ( AtlantaвЂ™s official episode descriptions never fail: вЂњWow itвЂ™s been a minute. Titled вЂњThree Slaps,вЂќ the episode is is designed to troll with nearly four years of build-up to the showвЂ™s return, the last thing viewers would expect is a story about a Black kid whoвЂ™s never seen on the show before. Season 3вЂ™s big hook is that the gang will spend most of their time abroad, but the premiere episode kicks things off in the States, with a story inspired by a familiar meme, an image tied to a story that many may not even realize ended so tragically.

In Donald GloverвЂ™s acclaimed FX series Atlanta, many racial and societal ills are dealt with through the insanely awkward and usually hilarious situations Earn (Glover), his rapper cousin Alfred (Brian Tyree Henry) and AlвЂ™s homie Darius ( LaKeith Stanfield) get into.

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