Atlanta: Nobody Beats the Biebs

September 29, 2016 8:46 PM - Season 1, Episode 5

Paper Boi attends a charity basketball celebrity event for the youth and faces off against Justin Beiber, the black R&B hit kid. Earn faces a case of mistaken identity. Darius runs into trouble at the shooting range.
posted by filthy light thief (3 comments total)

I'm fairly sure Darius is preparing for a confrontation with the Sandwich Man's deja vu dog from the opening scene of the series.
posted by FatherDagon at 10:23 PM on September 29, 2016

Interesting idea - there are some crazy "Matrix" theories regarding Texas dog and Sandwich man, but I'm not seeing that and there's no mention of this idea in the long Reddit episode discussion, but there is the note that Donald Glover wanted the show to be like Twin Peaks with rappers.
posted by filthy light thief at 10:50 AM on September 30, 2016

Yeah, I'm kind of surprised how little fanfare.mefi discussion there was of the borderline PKD-esque elements in E01 - timeframe shifts linked to deja-vu, the increasing divergence between what the protagonists experienced during the shooting (off-screen) and what the public seems to believe or have perceived, definitely not-quite-a-dream Sandwich Man... it's clear that the surreality of the show is significantly more subtle than Twin Peaks or The Leftovers or the like, but there is definitely a 'perception vs reality' fracture that is being hinted at.
posted by FatherDagon at 1:58 PM on September 30, 2016