Home > Atlanta > Season 1 « TV Series Page Atlanta: Season 1 (2016) SEASON: Season 1 Season 1 Season 2 Episode List All Critics | Top Critics TOMATOMETER 97% Average Rating: 8.61/10 Season Reviews: 71 Fresh: 71 Rotten: 0 Critics Consensus: Ambitious and refreshing, Atlanta offers a unique vehicle for star and series creator Donald Glover's eccentric brand of humor -- as well as a number of timely, trenchant observations. 100% Average Rating: 9.19/10 Season Reviews: 32 Fresh: 32 Rotten: 0 Critics Consensus: No consensus yet. Critic Consensus: Ambitious and refreshing, Atlanta offers a unique vehicle for star and series creator Donald Glover's eccentric brand of humor -- as well as a number of timely, trenchant observations. AUDIENCE SCORE 90% liked it Average Rating: 4.4/5 User Ratings: 1773 ADD YOUR RATING - NOT INTERESTED + WANT TO SEE Share on Facebook Post Want to See Not Interested Add Rating My Rating × Want to See Not Interested Post Share on Facebook Episodes 1 100% The Big Bang Air date: Sep 6, 2016 In the series premiere, two cousins try to work their way up through the Atlanta rap scene. More 2 No Score Yet Streets on Lock Air date: Sep 6, 2016 Aspiring rappers learn thug life isn't all its cracked up to be. More 3 No Score Yet Go for Broke Air date: Sep 13, 2016 Earn is broke and tries to date. More 4 100% The Streisand Effect Air date: Sep 20, 2016 Paper Boi goes nuts due to social media and Earn needs money. More 5 83% Nobody Beats the Biebs Air date: Sep 27, 2016 Celebrities visit, including Justin Bieber. More 6 100% Value Air date: Oct 4, 2016 Van becomes jealous. More 7 90% B.A.N. Air date: Oct 11, 2016 Montague makes an appearance. More 8 No Score Yet The Club Air date: Oct 18, 2016 Primal hosts NFL players. More 9 100% Juneteenth Air date: Oct 25, 2016 A Juneteenth party is held. More 10 100% The Jacket Air date: Nov 2, 2016 In the season finale, Quita loses her phone and Earn loses his jacket. More Atlanta: Season 1 Videos 0:14 Atlanta: Season 1 Promo - Alive 0:14 Atlanta: Season 1 Promo - Work 0:14 Atlanta: Season 1 Promo - Close Calls 0:14 Atlanta: Season 1 Promo - Curry Atlanta: Season 1 Promo - Deja Vu 0:14 Atlanta: Season 1 Promo - Hard Day 0:30 Atlanta: Season 1 Episode 10 Trailer - The Jacket 0:20 Atlanta: Season 1 Episode 9 Trailer - Juneteenth 0:20 Atlanta: Season 1 Episode 8 Trailer - The Club 0:20 Atlanta: Season 1 Episode 7 Trailer - B.A.N. View All Videos (15) Atlanta: Season 1 Photos View All Photos (94) Tv Season Info In this comedy series, two cousins try to better their lives and the lives of their family. Earn Marks (Donald Glover) is a broke college dropout who has no home and is staying with Vanessa (Zazie Beetz), his on-again, off-again girlfriend and mother of his child. After realizing that his cousin, Alfred Marks (Brian Tyree Henry), is a rapper on the verge of stardom, Earn becomes his manager. Together with Darrius (Lakeith Stanfield), Alfred's right-hand man and visionary, the three of them try to make it in the Atlanta rap scene. Genre: Comedy Network: FX Premiere Date: Sep 6, 2016 Creator: Donald Glover Exec. Producers: Donald Glover, Paul Simms, Dianne McGunigle Cast Donald Glover as Earnest "Earn" Marks Brian Tyree Henry as Alfred Miles LaKeith Stanfield as Darius Zazie Beetz as Van Justin Bieber Lucius Baston as Chris Show More Cast News & Interviews for Atlanta: Season 1 10 Stars Who Will Own the Summer 2018 Movie Season Writers Guild: 2018 Film and Television Winners Announced DGA 2018 Film and Television Winners Announced View All Atlanta: Season 1 News Episodes 1 100% The Big Bang Air date: Sep 6, 2016 In the series premiere, two cousins try to work their way up through the Atlanta rap scene. More 2 No Score Yet Streets on Lock Air date: Sep 6, 2016 Aspiring rappers learn thug life isn't all its cracked up to be. More 3 No Score Yet Go for Broke Air date: Sep 13, 2016 Earn is broke and tries to date. More 4 100% The Streisand Effect Air date: Sep 20, 2016 Paper Boi goes nuts due to social media and Earn needs money. More 5 83% Nobody Beats the Biebs Air date: Sep 27, 2016 Celebrities visit, including Justin Bieber. More 6 100% Value Air date: Oct 4, 2016 Van becomes jealous. More 7 90% B.A.N. Air date: Oct 11, 2016 Montague makes an appearance. More 8 No Score Yet The Club Air date: Oct 18, 2016 Primal hosts NFL players. More 9 100% Juneteenth Air date: Oct 25, 2016 A Juneteenth party is held. More 10 100% The Jacket Air date: Nov 2, 2016 In the season finale, Quita loses her phone and Earn loses his jacket. More Critic Reviews for Atlanta Season 1 All Critics (71) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (71) | Rotten (0) The show is masterful in eliciting a range of feelings - a combination of joy and horror, tension and relief - but none more so than surprise. Nov 2, 2016 | Rating: A | Full Review… Hanh Nguyen indieWire Top Critic Atlanta, FX's finely detailed and gloriously unpredictable comedy about striving within and near Atlanta's hip-hop scene, waited until the very final moments of its first season's final episode to feature the godheads of Atlanta hip-hop: Outkast. Nov 2, 2016 | Full Review… Spencer Kornhaber The Atlantic Top Critic Glover's creative force has been poured into this series about young black men in Atlanta with its insightful commentary about race in America. It's also darkly, awkwardly funny. Oct 21, 2016 | Full Review… Wenlei Ma News.com.au Top Critic Donald Glover deserves this chance to make his mark as a throughly hands-on auteur who's reminiscent of another FX mainstay -- Louis C.K. They write and act out what their lives have taught them. And the differences are both striking and instructive. Sep 2, 2016 | Rating: B+ | Full Review… Ed Bark Uncle Barky Top Critic The TV breakout Glover fans have been waiting for, also unlike anything else on TV. Sep 1, 2016 | Rating: A | Full Review… Verne Gay Newsday Top Critic While many shows and films about music feature similar contradictions between the glitz and the grit, in the world of Atlanta they feel like natural extensions of the city itself. Sep 7, 2016 | Full Review… Vann R. Newkirk The Atlantic Top Critic Atlanta is a beautiful and essential show in 2016, one that blends genuine humor with the stark realities its characters face. Oct 10, 2018 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review… Alan French AwardsCircuit.com Atlanta masterfully blends humor, irony and art to capture the desire for something better as well as the sense of defeat and complacency that racism and classism create. Aug 8, 2018 | Full Review… Mekeisha Madden Toby Essence Atlanta, is everything you would expect from Donald Glover if you've been paying attention as an actor, a comedian and a rapper. Jun 27, 2018 | Full Review… Stephanie Francis Black Girl Nerds Atlanta is a big city and contains multitudes. Overall, somehow this is on a must watch list for me so far. We'll see what happens. Jun 12, 2018 | Full Review… William Evans Black Nerd Problems View All Critic Reviews (71) Audience Reviews for Atlanta: Season 1 only watched the first episode but im hooked onto it already. JonathanW Super Reviewer View All News & Features 150 Erotic Movies Ranked worst to best! 2019's Most Anticipated 63 movies coming up this year 200 Essential Movies Chosen by RT staff! 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