And they have an oddball friend who's played by Lakeith Stanfield, and Earn has a daughter with his on again-off again girlfriend, who's played by Zazie Beetz. It was the creation of star Donald Glover, who was then known as a co-star on NBC's sitcom "Community." And the central story features Glover as Earn Marks, a dropout from Princeton who winds up managing his cousin, an up-and-coming rapper known as Paper Boi, who's played by Brian Tyree Henry. Well, you know, this show debuted way back in 2016. NADWORNY: Well, first, can you tell us a little bit about the history of the show and why TV critics consider it to be so important?ĭEGGANS: Sure. Hey, Eric.ĮRIC DEGGANS, BYLINE: Happy to talk with you about TV. NADWORNY: Here to talk about this with us is Eric Deggans, NPR's TV critic. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) We all voted for this guy named Tom Washington, but we didn't realize that Tom's first name was actually Thompson. But it's also known for its sometimes surreal episodes about entirely different characters, like this one told as a mockumentary about a case of mistaken identity, leading Disney's board to elect a Black man as its CEO. The show is centered on the lives of a group of Black millennials living in Atlanta. We are talking about television - FX's groundbreaking comedy, which is ending tonight after four seasons. Let's talk about "Atlanta." Nope, this is not another story about the runoff election in Georgia.
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