Atlanta Is An Fx Original Series Created And Starring,...

Atlanta is an FX original series created and starring, actor, comedian, and musician, Donald Glover (stage name: Childish Gambino). The series follows the lives of Earnest Marks (Donald Glover) and his cousin Alfred â€Å"Paper Boi† Miles played by Brian Tyree Henry, as they navigate through daily life in Atlanta Georgia. After dropping out of Princeton University Earnest (Earn) finds himself back in Atlanta, homeless, working at the airport on commission selling cell phone services. With no money and no home, he goes to his cousin Alfred who has found success with his newly released single, and asks to manage him. Earn who had a failed attempt at being a rapper still sees the potential in the music industry to provide for himself and his daughter. Within the first minute of the pilot episode you are introduced to World Star Hip-Hop and some common media representations of African American men, in the form of hyper-masculinity and violence, appropriately titling this episode The Big Bang. Donald Glover along with the other writers and producers of Atlanta proves the views with an authentic look into the daily challenges of being black in this country. The show creates a dialogue that examines the intersection of topics such as police brutality, mental health, and transphobic in relation to the systemic racism and violence experienced by black America. This review will examine the representation of blackness on Atlanta, and how the representations of African Americans continue