{"id":57894,"date":"2022-07-13T20:48:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T15:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/season-3-2022-review-a-masterful-season-on-disney-plus\/"},"modified":"2022-07-30T16:22:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T10:52:29","slug":"season-3-2022-review-a-masterful-season-on-disney-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/season-3-2022-review-a-masterful-season-on-disney-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"Season 3 (2022) Review: a masterful season on Disney plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>One would think that after four years without seeing Earn, Paper Boi and company, <strong>Donald Glover would immediately dive into recounting his promised European tour<\/strong> in season 3 of &#8216;Atlanta&#8217; (finally coming to Disney+).  Nothing is further from reality.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 1 --><\/p>\n<p>And it is that Glover decides to start the new episodes with &#8216;Three slaps&#8217;, an episode inspired by the <strong>true case of the hart family murders<\/strong>, when in 2018 a white couple decided to drive their car off a cliff, killing themselves and their six adopted children, all of them of color.  It is not until the final scene when we see our protagonist in a hotel room.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 2 --> <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset article-asset-normal article-asset-center\">\n<div class=\"desvio-container\">\n<div class=\"desvio\">\n<div class=\"desvio-figure js-desvio-figure\">\n<p>     <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This magnificent episode \u2014written by Stephen Glover and directed by Hiro Murai\u2014, with its thriller\/horror touch, is a reminder that this series, first and foremost, <strong>talk about the experience of being black<\/strong> and the current and not so changing debate on racism.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 3 --><\/p>\n<p>With its usual surreal tone, the speech is never a simple &#8220;racism is bad&#8221; but the series likes to explore how absurd the world becomes as soon as we pay attention to race. <strong>Glover does a tug of war with the viewer<\/strong>, to the one who tells things but doesn&#8217;t chew them up.  The message is there but perhaps a second viewing will help to deepen it.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 4 --><\/p>\n<h2>between two genders<\/h2>\n<div class=\"article-asset-image article-asset-large\">\n<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<div class=\"base-wrapper-image\" style=\"padding-top:66.640625%;\">\n                 <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sf-lazy \" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.blogs.es\/5c121a\/atl_301_0139r\/450_1000.webp?w=788&#038;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/5c121a\/atl_301_0139r\/650_1200.webp 681w,https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/5c121a\/atl_301_0139r\/1024_2000.webp 1024w, https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/5c121a\/atl_301_0139r\/1366_2000.webp 1366w,\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.blogs.es\/5c121a\/atl_301_0139r\/450_1000.webp?w=788&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Atl 301 0139r\" onerror=\"this.data-sf-src=\" https:=\"\" false=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n  <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Atl 301 0139r\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.blogs.es\/5c121a\/atl_301_0139r\/450_1000.webp?w=788&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thus, on the one hand we have the experiences in Europe of Paper Boi (Bryan Tyree Henry), Earn (Glover), Darius (Lakeith Stanfield) and Van (Zazie Beetz) where <strong>seems to highlight culture shock and European perspective<\/strong> around it (we have, for example, <em>black face <\/em>on Christmas holidays), and on the other we go to the United States to see loose stories in an anthological way.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 5 --><\/p>\n<p>Although this strategy of practically interspersed episodes <strong>can cause the feeling of disconnection in the plot<\/strong> (and even in themes), I don&#8217;t think it really hurts the series.  Since the first season (and I recognize that it took me a long time to get into his game), &#8216;Atlanta&#8217; has always wanted to be different, experiment with the format, jump, play.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 6 --><\/p>\n<p>We know what we&#8217;re going for and Glover and company <strong>decide to take another step in a direction they were already going<\/strong> while this European tour proposes a search for identity not so much of the series but of its characters.  Especially Paper Boi (which is the closest thing to a protagonist that we have) and Van.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 7 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset article-asset-normal article-asset-center\">\n<div class=\"desvio-container\">\n<div class=\"desvio\">\n<div class=\"desvio-figure js-desvio-figure\">\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The best series on Disney + of 2022... so far\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.blogs.es\/0fec21\/mejores-series-disney-plus-2022\/375_142.webp?w=788&#038;ssl=1\" onerror=\"this.src=\" https:=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The more than solid cast also helps.  Both this gang of four and those chosen for the &#8220;anthology&#8221; episodes are sensational, <strong>putting on some great performances<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 8 --><\/p>\n<h2>an excellent season<\/h2>\n<p>The series does not forget its comedy status either and both Donald Glover and his brother Stephen and the rest of the writers know well how to execute, <strong>within the peculiar style that we find ourselves, excellent gags<\/strong>.  Some more to hit hard and others to let go and see if it stings.  And it works very well.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 9 --><\/p>\n<p>Glover said some time ago that these final seasons (the fourth will be the last) were going to be the best that has been done on television.  I don&#8217;t know if what remains of the series will be, but the level of this <strong>season 3 of &#8216;Atlanta&#8217; has been absolutely masterful<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 10 --><\/p>\n<p>The series, which finally has a decent broadcast in Spain (somewhat later than I would like), strongly claims a position among the best current comedies.  Too bad the Emmys didn&#8217;t give her some more love.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 11 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One would think that after four years without seeing Earn, Paper Boi and company, Donald Glover would immediately dive into recounting his promised European tour in season 3 of &#8216;Atlanta&#8217; (finally coming to Disney+). Nothing is further from reality. And it is that Glover decides to start the new episodes with &#8216;Three slaps&#8217;, an episode<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":57895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10746],"tags":[10765,12226,12594,10954,10842],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.blogs.es\/9eef5a\/atl_302_0026r-2\/840_560.jpeg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65638,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57894\/revisions\/65638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}