Atlanta Robbin’ Season is "one of those miracle seasons" that is redefining our TV expectations

Vulture

The second season of Donald Glover's FX series is what happens "when every artist involved is on the same creative page and operating at the peak of their powers," says Matt Zoller Seitz. Season 2, he adds, is "robbing us of our expectations of what a TV series should be — specifically a series about African-Americans, American southerners, working-class and poor people, young people, and all those descriptors in combination — by lingering on moments, basking in them, at times stretching them out into gossamer strands in the manner of an atmospheric art-house indie or international art film." Seitz puts Atlanta alongside groundbreaking shows like The Sopranos, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The Simpsons, Moonlighting and The Twilight Zone, saying: "Atlanta has a knack for giving you what you didn’t know you wanted, evoking surprise, delight, puzzlement, anxiety, and elation in the course of any given episode. Whatever it gives you is different from, yet always equal to or better than, what you wanted or expected, and by this point, we should know better than to want or expect anything in particular. Atlanta is best approached with a blank-slate mind."

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