Atlanta – Robbin’ Season Recap: Darius, a Piano, and the Legacy of Abuse

***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: To paraphrase you: I asked for a Darius-centered episode, but like Darius himself, got something wholly unexpected. I have…a lot of feelings about this. I don’t know if any of them are coherent. First question I have, generally, is when did you know this shit was going from creepy to a Get Out situation? Nicole: The ostrich egg.

I literally almost tapped out at the ostrich egg. First, I literally almost vomited. Secondly, I started really looking at the setting and thought “oh, okay, I see you southern gothic.” And then I knew that wherever Darius and I thought this episode was going, we were both wrong. How about you? What was your tipping point? William: LOL, the ostrich egg was so unsettling. I do think it did well to mess with our expectations of a TV show. We know it’s creepy and we know there’s the implied logic that Darius is in grave danger, but on TV shows, when it’s that overt, it doesn’t usually happen that way. If Al thought Darius might die, he wouldn’t be joking with him on the phone or sending texts “Are you dead?” And even if it feels like the next logical thing to happen were this real life, I think TV shows have used that trope so much, I denied it right up until the blood on t…