Atlanta 2.11

Crabs in a Barrel

This is it. The final episode of the season. I think Earn finally turned a corner in this one. He did something. He dealt with things. I wasn't expecting that.

Atlanta 2.10

FUBU

This one is set in the past. It is mostly about Earn but Alfred is in it too. Earn's mother gets him a shirt, a FUBU shirt. She bought it at Marshall's. It was on sale. He wears it proudly to school the next day.

Atlanta 2.09

North of the Border

Paper Boi goes to Pajama Jam, an out of town college event. Earn, Tracy, and Darius go with him. Earn has arranged for them to stay with Violet, a fan of Paper Boi, and her friends. Things take a weird turn at the Pajama Jam. Violet seems to think that she and Paper Boi have some mystical connection. She gets pissed when she sees him talking to some other women at the Jam. She pours a drink on him, she slaps Earn, Tracy pushes her down some stairs.

Atlanta 2.08

Woods

Alfred goes out shopping with Ciara, his kinda sorta girlfriend. She tries to talk him into getting a new manager. She also talks branding and tries to get him to change his image. He isn't buying it. He wants to keep it real. He gets angry and stomps off when she takes a picture of them together without asking him.

Atlanta 2.07

Champagne Papi

Van goes to a party with three of her friends (Candice, Tami, and Nadine). The party is at Drake's place in Atlanta.

Each of them have their own little arc. Van is obsessed with getting a selfie with Drake. Nadine is the one who brought them to the party but she ditches them pretty quickly for the guy who got them the invites to the party. Tami is obsessed with someone famous who already has a woman, a white woman. Nadine freaks out after eating a gummy until she meets Darius.

Atlanta 2.06

Teddy Perkins

Darius goes to pickup a piano with multi-colored keys that someone offered him. He gets to the house and meets Teddy Perkins. Teddy is strange. The whole episode is strange. It plays like an episode of the Twilight Zone or a horror movie. Things get weirder and weirder as it progresses.

Atlanta 2.05

Barbershop

Alfred goes to get his haircut. It takes much longer than anticipated. Bibby, his barber, has too much going on. He gets interrupted in the middle of cutting Alfred's hair. He has to go home to deal with his wife or girlfriend. He talks Alfred into going with him. He tells him that he will cut his hair once they get there. Bibby cuts his son's hair but not Alfred's.

Atlanta 2.04

Helen

Earn and Van travel to her hometown for an Oktoberfest-like event. All the people they meet, with the exception of Christina, Van's childhood friend, are white. Van is dressed up for the event. Earn is not. She keeps trying to get him to get into the spirit of it all. He doesn't want to. He tries to, but not really. The shine on the apple comes off when Van finds Earn's phone. There's a message from another woman on the home screen. She doesn't tell him what she saw on his phone.

Atlanta 2.03

Money Bag Shawty

Earn's losing streak continues. He gets a big check from the endorsement contract that Paper Boi signed. He takes Van out for a night on the town. He takes her to a movie theater and tries paying with a $100 bill. They won't take it. He tries to pay with his debit card but they want to make a photocopy of his debit card and his drivers license before they will accept it. The next customer is white, carrying, but they let him pay with a $100 bill.

Atlanta 2.02

Sportin' Waves

Alfred and Earn get taken, individually. Alfred goes to buy some more drugs to sell and gets robbed by the dealer.

The next day Earn and Alfred go to (what looks like) an internet start up that wants to help Paper Boi make money. It doesn't go well. Alfred isn't feeling it.

Atlanta 2.01

Alligator Man

Earn is on probation for some sort of minor drug related crime. Alfred is under house arrest. Darius and Alfred aren't on speaking terms, even though they are still sharing a house. Earn is about to get evicted from the storage unit where he lives. Aside from the storage unit I don't recall any of this stuff from the end of season 1.