Atlanta 3.04

The Big Payback

The rules in the United States seem to have changed. Black people are finding White people whose ancestors enslaved their ancestors and demand restitution. The main character in this episode is Marshall Johnson, a White man, who is pursued by Shaniqua Johnson, a Black woman with such a claim. Marshall panics. He doesn't know what to do. She shows up at his apartment, at his place of work, and insists that she is going to get what he owes her.

Thoughts

Earn, Alfred, Darius, and Van are not in this episode.

This episode is presented sort of like an episode of the Twilight Zone. There is no introduction but the whole thing seems to take place in an alternate universe. Marshall is discombobulated until the very end. He seems at his happiest in the beginning of the episode. He seems to have found some peace at the end of the episode.

This episode makes me think about the inequities in the United States. It makes me think about how lucky I am.

There have been episodes with weird premises that seem to have little to do with the main characters or the main plot threads before but this one is in a class by itself.