What is presented and marketed as an episode of television is better understood as a short film. It runs 41 minutes long without a single commercial interruption, leading us down a path of increasing tension, story-building, and several bursts of “What the fuck is happening here?”
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Television Workshop: Atlanta
Alfred aka Paper Boi aka regular person needs a fresh cut before a photoshoot for a magazine profile. What does he do? He heads to Bibby, his trusted barber, the one who knows what Alfred means when he says, “the usual.”
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Television Workshop: Atlanta
Jennifer Anniston once said, “Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kind of falls into place.” The issue for Earn and Vanessa is neither really knows the answer to “Who am I?”
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Television Workshop: Atlanta
In episode thirteen of Atlanta, the Glover brothers fall back on the life blood of the show, and perhaps our country, and write an entire episode about money.
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Television Workshop: Atlanta
The inception of this column arose out of the Twitter-conceited TV Workshops on Louie and Mad Men that appeared on this website a little while ago. I remember working in a Google Doc after the latter’s finale, trying to find some sense of resolution with where we left, and that image of Don Draper, mouth crooked, serene.
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