After a season spent gallivanting throughout Europe (and stepping apart for numerous standalone episodes), the Atlanta crew is again of their hometown — and it’s simply as unusual as we remembered.
Thursday’s premiere for the fourth and last season bought again to its roots, sending its 4 essential characters off on a sequence of surreal aspect quests. Let’s take these one after the other, we could?
DARIUS | Our favourite area cadet kicks issues off by casually strolling by way of a division retailer whereas it’s being looted, with safety alarms blaring and prospects working out with armfuls of stolen items. He ambles as much as the return counter, attempting to return an air fryer, however the cowering worker simply factors to the chaos surrounding them. (“It’s fairly wild in right here,” Darius notes. “Kinda seems like a Marshalls.”) The worker begins processing the return — however then he decides to only take all of the money within the register and make a run for it himself. Darius leaves, air fryer nonetheless in hand, however he’s stopped by an indignant white girl in a motorized scooter who’s chastising all of the looters: “I might fairly die than allow you to take that.” Different consumers spray her with fireplace extinguishers, permitting Darius to flee, however they quickly flee when she emerges from the smoke with a knife drawn… and makes a sluggish beeline for Darius in her scooter.
Darius catches up with Al, who’s caught in site visitors, and will get into his automotive, however he can see the knife-wielding girl slowly approaching in his sideview mirror. He nervously tells Al to take the subsequent exit, however the automotive isn’t shifting, so Darius will get out, with the scooter girl taking a vicious swipe at him as he does. He dodges her and runs off, however nonetheless, she follows. He bikes to an empty industrial park, nonetheless holding the air fryer, however the girl is true behind him. She gained’t let up! “I don’t know what Fox Information has been feeding you, however I’m not antifa, I’m not a looter,” he yells at her. “I used to be simply returning my air fryer.” Her response? “I don’t care!” He climbs up onto a ledge the place she will be able to’t attain him, however she simply shrugs: “I’ll wait.” He shimmies by way of a damaged fence and yells again, “Get some assist!” as he runs away.
AL | Whereas he’s caught in site visitors, Al hears on the radio {that a} favourite rapper of his, Blueblood, has simply died. He’s headed to the airport, however as Darius factors out, there’s nearly no level: “You don’t like L.A. You don’t like New York. You don’t like nowhere.” After Darius runs away from the scooter girl, Al will get fed up with the site visitors jam and takes a detour, and as he’s pumping fuel, he hears a Blueblood music taking part in. He spots a barbecue place close by and orders a “zoo pie,” because it’s talked about in a Blueblood music. The prepare dinner places on a CD whereas he works — it’s a Blueblood observe Al hasn’t heard — after which serves Al his meal in a container with a wierd image printed on the highest. “Hey man, is that this a scavenger hunt?” Al asks, however the man claims he doesn’t even know who Blueblood is.
Al follows the clues throughout city, taking part in a online game and cashing in a protracted strip of prize tickets, wanting inside a damaged dryer and discovering a pair of 3D glasses to look at a film with… he ultimately finally ends up at an deserted strip mall and enters one of many shops, the place he finds a lone girl sitting at a funeral service. He asks her if Blueblood is performing, however she says, “No, he’s lifeless.” She was Blueblood’s spouse, and his final want was to plan this elaborate scavenger hunt that tied into his new album. Al is simply the fifth particular person to point out up, although. She’s stunned so few folks made it: “I suppose you don’t all the time get again what you give… I simply want he had extra enjoyable. As a result of that’s all there’s ultimately.” She provides Al a plant as a parting reward: “Observe 11 is take care of it.” (Ha!) Oh, and Al goes as much as the coffin to pay his respects… however there’s solely a pretend skeleton in there. Blueblood was cremated a month in the past.
EARN AND VAN | The 2 exes make a journey collectively to swanky outside mall Atlantic Station, and Earn bumps into one other ex of his, Kenya, on their manner in. “You may’t go to Atlantic Station and never run into any person,” Van muses… and he or she doesn’t understand how proper she is. On the cellphone retailer, one other ex of Earn’s walks by and waves, and an ex of Van’s stops and says hello, too. He’s been working at this cellphone retailer for the previous 10 years, Van marvels. What is that this place, the Island of Misfit Exes? Effectively, yeah, kinda. As they stroll by way of the mall, everybody they go is a former flame of Earn’s or Van’s. (“She’s sporting a shirt that she stole from my home,” Earn notes about one passerby.)
They’re each understandably freaked out and attempt to depart, however they’ll’t discover the place they parked their automotive. They run into Kenya once more, who doesn’t keep in mind seeing them earlier. She’s misplaced, too, and doesn’t even understand how lengthy she’s been there. What was taking part in on the movie show when she arrived, Earn asks? Now You See Me 2, she says: “That’s unhealthy, huh?” (Yeah, it got here out in 2016.) Earn finds an emergency exit door, however Van doesn’t need him to depart her caught there like one other considered one of his exes. “I might by no means allow you to grow to be considered one of them,” Earn tells her, in order that they undergo the emergency exit collectively, the place it’s pitch black and the partitions are carpeted — and moist, for some cause? They fumble by way of the darkness and at last emerge… on the website of Blue Blood’s funeral service, the place they discover Al. Oh, and Kenya adopted them by way of the door, too.
Al, Earn, Van and Kenya all stroll out into the strip mall parking zone, and so they’re quickly joined by Darius, who seems haunted after his lengthy chase with the scooter girl. He’s nonetheless toting round that rattling air fryer, and when Kenya realizes she forgot to get a present for her dad, he palms it to her without cost, glad to do away with it. All of them pile into Al’s automotive, and Van provides Kenya a trip, however she’s glad to only look forward to her Uber. The others drive off, leaving Kenya alone within the parking zone holding the air fryer… and we hear the whirr of a motorized scooter creeping up behind her.
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