Atlanta: Season 1 (2016)

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Season 1
Atlanta

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.

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Critic Ratings: 73

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Audience Score

User Ratings: 1799
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Episodes

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The Big Bang
Air date: Sep 6, 2016
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Streets on Lock
Air date: Sep 6, 2016
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Go for Broke
Air date: Sep 13, 2016
4
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The Streisand Effect
Air date: Sep 20, 2016
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Nobody Beats the Biebs
Air date: Sep 27, 2016
6
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Value
Air date: Oct 4, 2016
7
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B.A.N.
Air date: Oct 11, 2016
8
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The Club
Air date: Sep 6, 2016
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Juneteenth
Air date: Oct 25, 2016
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The Jacket
Air date: Nov 2, 2016

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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.

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Critic Reviews for Atlanta Season 1

All Critics (73) | Top Critics (34)

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
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
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
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
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
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
Top Critic

The creators, writers, and directors involved in Atlanta are all people of color, and damn, but it shows in the sheer complexity of their characters.

Aug 8, 2019 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Li Lai

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

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

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
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Audience Reviews for Atlanta: Season 1

  • Feb 11, 2019
    So odd, and wonderful.
    Kacy O
  • Jan 03, 2019
    Surprisingly unique, and weird, Atlanta has quickly become my favorite show on television. What seems to be an average plot, gets carried out of control by the shows masterful script, humor, and all the actors great performances.
    a w
  • Nov 13, 2018
    Donald Glover brings one his many talents to one of the most unique displays in television you'll ever see. Atlanta breaks the format of what a series should be all the while representing the culture and being an honest depiction of the many people trying to make it big in the ATL
    Dev V
  • Oct 23, 2018
    Likeable characters but a very mixed bag, each episode having its own style ranging from super slick to tediously boring.
    Harsh C
  • Oct 07, 2018
    Atlanta is one of the most original and refreshing shows I have ever watched.
    Good B
  • Aug 22, 2018
    Original and Brilliant
    Steve P
  • Aug 07, 2018
    I tried. The first 3 minutes are excrusiating. With the N word. one guy get shot for a fucking mirror. And that Rap song..... *barffffffffffffff* Make me want to open my veins right from the get go. Not interested... And NOT interesting.
    Remi D
  • Aug 06, 2018
    WELL WRITTEN AND HAS A MESSAGE WITHOUT BEING PREACHY.,
    Brian M
  • Aug 01, 2018
    smart, funny, and with political presence, atlanta shows how a tv series can be perfect(technically and thematically) and the most important... simple.
    Gabriel E
  • Jun 09, 2018
    Many viewers won't understand exactly what they're witnessing when watching Atlanta, but will know they're seeing something special.
    Brad Y
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