For Atlanta’s “Black fairy tale” to have a happy ending, whiteness would have to live through brutal nightmares

The Ringer

"Donald Glover is television’s consummate mythmaker," says Charles Holmes. "Every season of Atlanta arrives like a prepackaged sausage. Depending upon your appetite, the mystery meats that go into the show’s creation are just as interesting as what appears on screen. It’s become TV lore that Glover and Co. had to 'Trojan horse' the surrealist ambitions of the show’s first season to a less-than-enthusiastic FX. Less than two years after the show premiered, Glover compared his vision of the plot-light follow-up to the 1992 direct-to-video classic, Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation. So when Glover revealed that his desire for Atlanta’s penultimate season was to make a 'Black fairy tale,' the grand design felt as quaint as it was potentially fraught."