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Atlanta – Robbin' Season, Episode 5 Barbershop

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Atlanta – Robbin' Season, Episode 5

Barbershop

Aired Mar 29, 2018

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You know how you need a fresh cut but your barber is always on some wack stuff? He's lucky I only trust him.

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Joshua Alston

AV Club

03/30/2018

B-

"Barbershop" is an underwhelming episode...The problem is the writing, which isn't bad, but pushes the scenario too hard and not hard enough at the same time.

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Darren Franich

Entertainment Weekly

03/30/2018

It's a familiar structure for Atlanta, the circular Odyssey. It's also a great showcase for Henry, who says so much with his weary expression, a not-unamused exhaustion suggesting he already knows how all the stories end.

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Rodney Ho

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

03/30/2018

The title of this episode is "Barbershop," which may evoke the movies of the same title. But it's absolutely nothing like those films at all. There is no punchy give and take among the barbers and regulars, no trash talking, no political debates.

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Dan Comer

The Ringer

11/16/2022

At its core, it seems, a trip to the barbershop is about opportunity cost.

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Nicole Homer

Black Nerd Problems

06/05/2018

I think that's part of the writing's genius. Just when you get sick of Earn, he's absent. Just when Van's absence becomes distracting, here she come (in lederhosen).

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Miles Surrey

The Ringer

03/30/2018

While Donald Glover is the creative genius behind Atlanta, and the series' aesthetic owes much to frequent director Hiro Murai, Brian Tyree Henry is the show's MVP.

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Synopsis

You know how you need a fresh cut but your barber is always on some wack stuff? He's lucky I only trust him.

Director: Donald Glover
Creator: Donald Glover
Executive Producer: Dianne McGunigle, Donald Glover, Paul Simms, Stephen Glover
Screenwriter: Stefani Robinson
Network: FX
Rating: TV-MA (L)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date: Mar 29, 2018