Season 3 Thoughts?


I enjoyed season 1 and 2. I thought this season was a bit weaker than the others.

Not sure if they did a lot of these episodes this way due to COVID issues, but it feels like such a waste of them being in Europe and only having something like 4-5 true episodes that dealt with the story or progression. The setting alone had me excited for this season, especially with how season 2 ended and set the tone going forward.

The anthology episodes were okay at best and just felt like there was either a message they really wanted to get across, or they had a fun idea and just had to include it. I don't think that's all bad, but having so many of them detracted from the season. At least give an extra few episodes for the total season length to help account for the 4 episodes that were alternate stories.

I don't feel like the characters/story was able to move forward as much as I wanted it to, or at least just spend more time with their characters in general.

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Season 3 was trash however you want to look at it, but especially bad compared to seasons 1 and 2

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I liked the stand alone episodes. Good writing is good writing, regardless of the lack of familiar characters.

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I knew DG's head was too far up his own ass when I saw his comments complaining about people who compare Lil Dicky's show to his. Yeah I thought the first two seasons of Atlanta were better than Dave but feeling the need to publicly say how great your show is at the expense of someone else and specifically having a problem with black people who might prefer Dave? Come on.

Anyway, I don't even mind the idea of the anthology style episodes. The problem is I thought two of them were two of the weakest episodes of the series. So not only are you not getting the main crew but you're getting disappointing episodes in their place. The finale was pretty bad. Just because you reference a film like Amelie and use it as a metaphor for Van's mental health doesn't mean you're not watching really subpar television.

I noticed almost every episode was written by someone different (except two by DG I think) and that might have been part of the problem. You have a bunch of different writers trying to make their own unique mark but also hammering home the same themes. On one hand it's all over the place but at the same time you feel like you're getting the same message over and over.

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I noticed almost every episode was written by someone different (except two by DG I think) and that might have been part of the problem. You have a bunch of different writers trying to make their own unique mark but also hammering home the same themes. On one hand it's all over the place but at the same time you feel like you're getting the same message over and over.


That's a pretty spot on summary. It definitely felt repetitive.

Since every episode had a different writer, I wonder if their goal was to make every episode feel new, unique, whatever - but it just didn't come together... looks like they didn't compare notes. Reminds me of Four Rooms (https://moviechat.org/tt0113101/Four-Rooms) and I'm sure there are plenty of similar out there as well.

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