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Atlanta – Season 3, Episode 1 Three Slaps

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95% Tomatometer 22 Reviews
Wow it's been a minute. I mean, I like this episode about the troubled kid but we waited 50 years for this?
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Atlanta — Season 3, Episode 1

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Critics Consensus

Atlanta reintroduces itself with a self-contained premiere that may initially come across as a digression, but winds up reaffirming the series' core thesis with horrifying power.

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Donald Glover

Creator

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Dianne McGunigle

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Kylie Northover The Age (Australia) 04/01/2022
5/5
Like Atlanta’s other standalone episodes, it bobs along as darkly funny before escalating into the heart-wrenchingly sad. Go to Full Review Melanie McFarland Salon.com 03/26/2022
Every new round pushes that concept a little farther, injecting more surrealism but never enough to entirely depart from reality -- as Black folks live it, I should clarify. Go to Full Review Alan Sepinwall Rolling Stone 03/25/2022
Together, “Three Slaps” and “Sinterklaas is Coming to Town” are a reminder of everything Atlanta can be and do, whether it’s the stark nightmare of the former or the back-to-basics ensemble shenanigans of the latter. Go to Full Review Khal Davenport The Ringer 11/16/2022
The new hope is that, in the near future, those who slept on the last two seasons of Atlanta will rediscover this episode/season, without the immediate knowledge of how long it’d been since they’d seen the previous episode. Go to Full Review Micah Peters The Ringer 03/31/2022
The show turns the idea of prestige television on its head by refusing to take even its own rules seriously, and we love Atlanta for that... Go to Full Review Brian Richards Pajiba 03/29/2022
This was a fantastic episode, which proved that Atlanta hasn’t missed a step since its return. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

Episode Info

Synopsis Wow it's been a minute. I mean, I like this episode about the troubled kid but we waited 50 years for this?
Director
Hiro Murai
Creator
Donald Glover
Executive Producer
Dianne McGunigle, Donald Glover, Paul Simms, Hiro Murai, Stephen Glover
Screenwriter
Stephen Glover
Network
FX
Rating
TV-MA
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Crime, History, Romance, Musical
Original Language
English
Release Date
Mar 24, 2022