Atlanta
Season 1
10 listed hours · 2016–2022 · FX
From the desk
How this season is filed
Donald Glover and Hiro Murai's FX serial as permission: Paper Boi's orbit, Earn's hustle, and episodes that treat surrealism as reporting rather than as a stunt.
TV Flash files Season 1 of Atlanta (2016–2022) on FX as the first listed season of 4 — 10 listed hours, 2016-09-06–2016-11-01 from “The Big Bang” (S01E01) to “The Jacket” (S01E10). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S01E01 The Big Bang
The almost-sitcom door. A city, a cousin, a hustle already too big for the pitch.
- S01E07 B.A.N.
Talk-show parody as media theory. Funny, then accurate, then both in the same cut.
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S01E01 The Big Bang
Paper Boi? Who the hell is that? I swear everybody want to be a rapper now-a-days smh. Song is bumpin tho. ( Murai.) In the second half hour - See every rapper think he a thug, well you do the crime, you do the time. Dont drop the soap haha. Free my uncle Jay!
Pilot note — From the desk: Atlanta opens its catalog run with “The Big Bang” (2016-09-06). Tone freedom on basic cable/FX prestige. Donald Glover multi-hyphenate myth and 'what even was that episode' joy.
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S01E02 Streets on Lock
Aspiring rappers learn thug life isn't all its cracked up to be.
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S01E03 Go for Broke
This man Earn broke as hell. How you gone go out on a date with no money? Umm mhmm these Atlanta dudes trifling. But Ok, Paper Boi might really be about that life tho.
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S01E04 The Streisand Effect
Paper Boi is tripping about this blog stuff but it's just Twitter bruh. It's just entertainment. Somebody needs to get Earn some money. Skreetmoney Worldwide man.
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S01E05 Nobody Beats the Biebs
Ayyye, okay! We got celebs in the building balling for the kids. I love me some Justin Bieber. Man, Paper Boi stay hating tho haha.
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S01E06 Value
I love my bestie for real but I can't stand her neither. Van just jealous cause her girl out here jet settin and poppin. Ok girl get yours.
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S01E07 B.A.N.
Baller Alert! NFL players, not to mention Jeff Miles and the bottle boys at Primal tonight. Paper Boi gonna be in this thang too. Liiiiiiiittttttttt. I got pre sale bands.
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S01E08 The Club
Baller Alert! NFL players, not to mention Jeff Miles and the bottle boys at Primal tonight. Paper Boi gonna be in this thang too. Liiiiiiiittttttttt. I got pre sale bands.
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S01E09 Juneteenth
Why my Auntie trying to make me go to one of these bougie Junteenth parties again? I don't like them sadity people and I'm gonna miss my shows. Le sigh.
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S01E10 The Jacket
Yo last night was 10 crazy. I bout lost my mind, Quita lost her phone, and this fool Earn lost his jacket smh. Who cares tho (laugh-crying emoji)
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