Donald Glover, Brian Tyree Henry and Hiro Murai break down how Atlanta comes together.
This felt like Paper Boi’s season, flexing his fame in another country but also processing his feelings about it.I have this weird idea about how fame speeds up your mortality, because now all of a sudden you belong to everybody. Fame feels like a multiverse. I just didn’t know who the hell I was until we were in Europe being screamed at by white people in different languages. And it’s like, “Oh, they’re screaming ‘cause they care about who we are.
We thought about time. I’m very proud of the fact that the show is rewatchable. I watch “Looney Tunes” with my son, and these are from the 1930s and they’re extremely rewatchable. Our show has specifics, but that’s not what makes them enjoyable. So we got a little longer to work on the scripts, with an eye toward making them more classic, I guess.It changes as we’re making it. I look back at the episodes we shot in Europe, and I go, “Wow.
One of those feelings was surely confidence when it came to layering in episodes that didn’t feature the main cast yet still commented on the season’s preoccupations.Hiro said this: It’s like a concept album. You let the theme do the work, and that first episode [“Three Slaps”], the thesis is there, and I’m like, “OK, here are a bunch of flavors of that.” We tried to echo things. If it was just [our characters], it would feel small to what we were talking about.