Atlanta – Robbin’ Season Recap: People-ing, Break-ups, and Ze Germans

***Atlanta is back for season two, ROBBIN SEASON and we couldn’t be more excited. While not a traditional recap for us, Nicole and William get together each week to talk out the great, the innovative and the utterly bizarre of the latest episode. All the spoilers ahead.*** Nicole: I asked for a Van episode… [stares into the abyss]There’s an absurdity achieved in this episode that I’ve missed but this was a really, really sad episode so a lot of what would’ve been my joy at that was tempered. First I have to acknowledge that the German festival and all of its costuming, games, and roaming demons brought me back to my good old Grimm days. William: yeah…no matter how folks have tried it, even in comedies, rarely are things more stressful to watch than an active break up. And while I didn’t know it was going to be that at the very beginning of the episode (I mean, Earn’s more confident, ahem, facetime doesn’t foreshadow that), there was a part early on that I said out loud “I’m not sure they are very healthy for each other.”

Also, true to a mutually unhealthy relationship, it did ping pong back and forth about who was being hurtful to whom until it was painfully obvious that the end result should probably be them not being together anymore or…whatever the hell they actually were. Nicole: See I wasn’t sure what I wanted to happen so I was mostly in shock and awe. I like that these characters are true to character. We’ve seen Van take Earn to a party without the proper brief…