Atlanta – Robbin’ Season Recap: Paper Boi Got Mo Fame, Mo Problems

***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.*** William: Did you ever watch Flight of the Concords on HBO? For those that haven’t, it was a really funny show (the first season at least) about a struggling duet band that writes hilarious and really terrible songs. But the production quality is great so they feel like real songs. And you’re laughing simultaneously at the absurdity of the songs’ content and the gall to make them sound serious. Which is all to say, I cannot get the corn flake white feminist acoustic version of Paper Boi out of my head. But I kind of don’t want to. I’m not proud.

Nicole: Haha! So I loved that show. And those songs.

But that’s not what that blanched version reminded me of. Do you remember when Rihanna’s “Work” came out and there was this whole response of “it’s mumbles” and “it’s inaudible” as opposed to the more accurate “it’s not for me”? That is all I could think as that song played. And yet, it was the perfect microcosm for the entire episode. William: I’m not sure where to start, but Paper Boi’s failed quest line is as good a place as any. I thought it was hella interesting to see these complete opposite worlds that Al has to navigate and yet, he was completely frustrated with both of them. The stickup at the beginning …