Atlanta: The Homeliest Little Horse

October 11, 2022 6:40 PM - Season 4, Episode 2

Earn goes to therapy, and we see how hard it can be for a woman to make it in children's literature.
posted by skoosh (5 comments total)

i love this show SO MUCH
posted by lazaruslong at 2:03 AM on October 12, 2022 [1 favorite]

OMG, the reveal at the end! The way both Al (I feel weird still calling him Paperboi at this point) and Darius react to Earn at the end is amazing. It's one thing to make oneself the lead character of one's own show, but to then have that character do distinctly unheroic things –things that even his best friends could not get behind at all – is something else for sure.
posted by skoosh at 3:29 PM on October 12, 2022 [1 favorite]

Mad props to Blake Bloom who played the Lisa Mahn character who captured the every phase of the sad white lady reactionary progression. She was pitiful without being pitiable.
posted by peeedro at 5:25 PM on October 12, 2022 [2 favorites]

I don't know, I felt a little bad for her when her friend (who had been keeping her afloat financially!) refused to say that she liked her writing. But yeah, Brooke Bloom really hit it out of the park with this performance – so many layers.
posted by skoosh at 8:51 PM on October 12, 2022 [1 favorite]

God, that was delightful. The "pettiness" tag has never been more earned.
posted by Tom Hanks Cannot Be Trusted at 7:54 AM on May 22, 2023