After a season spent gallivanting throughout Europe (and stepping apart for quite a few standalone episodes), the Atlanta crew is again of their hometown — and it’s simply as unusual as we remembered.
Thursday’s premiere for the fourth and last season received again to its roots, sending its 4 foremost characters off on a sequence of surreal aspect quests. Let’s take these one after the other, lets?
DARIUS | Our favourite house cadet kicks issues off by casually strolling by means of a division retailer whereas it’s being looted, with safety alarms blaring and prospects working out with armfuls of stolen items. He ambles as much as the return counter, attempting to return an air fryer, however the cowering worker simply factors to the chaos surrounding them. (“It is pretty wild in here,” Darius notes. “Kinda looks like a Marshalls.”) The worker begins processing the return — however then he decides to simply take all of the money within the register and make a run for it himself. Darius leaves, air fryer nonetheless in hand, however he’s stopped by an offended white girl in a motorized scooter who’s chastising all of the looters: “I would rather die than let you take that.” Other consumers spray her with hearth extinguishers, permitting Darius to flee, however they quickly flee when she emerges from the smoke with a knife drawn… and makes a sluggish beeline for Darius in her scooter.
Darius catches up with Al, who’s caught in site visitors, and will get into his automotive, however he can see the knife-wielding girl slowly approaching in his sideview mirror. He nervously tells Al to take the following exit, however the automotive isn’t transferring, so Darius will get out, with the scooter girl taking a vicious swipe at him as he does. He dodges her and runs off, however nonetheless, she follows. He bikes to an empty industrial park, nonetheless holding the air fryer, however the girl is correct behind him. She gained’t let up! “I don’t know what Fox News has been feeding you, but I’m not antifa, I’m not a looter,” he yells at her. “I was just returning my air fryer.” Her response? “I don’t care!” He climbs up onto a ledge the place she will’t attain him, however she simply shrugs: “I’ll wait.” He shimmies by means of a damaged fence and yells again, “Get some help!” as he runs away.
(*4*)AL | While he’s caught in site visitors, Al hears on the radio {that a} favourite rapper of his, Blueblood, has simply died. He’s headed to the airport, however as Darius factors out, there’s nearly no level: “You don’t like L.A. You don’t like New York. You don’t like nowhere.” After Darius runs away from the scooter girl, Al will get fed up with the site visitors jam and takes a detour, and as he’s pumping fuel, he hears a Blueblood track enjoying. He spots a barbecue place close by and orders a “zoo pie,” because it’s talked about in a Blueblood track. The cook dinner places on a CD whereas he works — it’s a Blueblood monitor Al hasn’t heard — after which serves Al his meal in a container with a wierd image printed on the highest. “Hey man, is this a scavenger hunt?” Al asks, however the man claims he doesn’t even know who Blueblood is.
Al follows the clues throughout city, enjoying a online game and cashing in a protracted strip of prize tickets, wanting inside a damaged dryer and discovering a pair of 3D glasses to observe a film with… he finally finally ends up at an deserted strip mall and enters one of many shops, the place he finds a lone girl sitting at a funeral service. He asks her if Blueblood is performing, however she says, “No, he’s dead.” She was Blueblood’s spouse, and his final want was to plan this elaborate scavenger hunt that tied into his new album. Al is simply the fifth particular person to point out up, although. She’s stunned so few individuals made it: “I guess you don’t always get back what you give… I just wish he had more fun. Because that’s all there is in the end.” She presents Al a plant as a parting reward: “Track 11 is how to care for it.” (Ha!) Oh, and Al goes as much as the coffin to pay his respects… however there’s solely a pretend skeleton in there. Blueblood was cremated a month in the past.
EARN AND VAN | The two exes make a journey collectively to swanky out of doors mall Atlantic Station, and Earn bumps into one other ex of his, Kenya, on their means in. “You can’t go to Atlantic Station and not run into somebody,” Van muses… and he or she doesn’t know the way proper she is. At the telephone retailer, one other ex of Earn’s walks by and waves, and an ex of Van’s stops and says hello, too. He’s been working at this telephone retailer for the previous 10 years, Van marvels. What is that this place, the Island of Misfit Exes? Well, yeah, kinda. As they stroll by means of the mall, everybody they cross is a former flame of Earn’s or Van’s. (“She’s wearing a shirt that she stole from my house,” Earn notes about one passerby.)
They’re each understandably freaked out and attempt to depart, however they’ll’t discover the place they parked their automotive. They run into Kenya once more, who doesn’t keep in mind seeing them earlier. She’s misplaced, too, and doesn’t even know the way lengthy she’s been there. What was enjoying on the movie show when she arrived, Earn asks? Now You See Me 2, she says: “That’s bad, huh?” (Yeah, it got here out in 2016.) Earn finds an emergency exit door, however Van doesn’t need him to depart her caught there like one other one in all his exes. “I would never let you become one of them,” Earn tells her, so that they undergo the emergency exit collectively, the place it’s pitch black and the partitions are carpeted — and moist, for some cause? They fumble by means of the darkness and at last emerge… on the website of Blue Blood’s funeral service, the place they discover Al. Oh, and Kenya adopted them by means of the door, too.
Al, Earn, Van and Kenya all stroll out into the strip mall parking zone, and so they’re quickly joined by Darius, who appears to be like haunted after his lengthy chase with the scooter girl. He’s nonetheless toting round that rattling air fryer, and when Kenya realizes she forgot to get a present for her dad, he arms it to her totally free, comfortable to do away with it. They all pile into Al’s automotive, and Van presents Kenya a trip, however she’s comfortable to simply anticipate her Uber. The others drive off, leaving Kenya alone within the parking zone holding the air fryer… and we hear the whirr of a motorized scooter creeping up behind her.
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