Favorite Emmy: Donald Glover's "Atlanta" as the opening of the TV season

15 September 2017, 01:23 | mode
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Dmitri Kurkin The awarding ceremony of the "emmi" award will take place on the nearest Sunday, and one of its future laureates can be called right now, without fear of making a mistake in the forecast. The victory in the category "Best comedy series" prophesy "Atlanta" Donald Glover, and he himself - the prize for the best comedic role of the first plan. This is hardly a surprise, and it's not even that in January the creators of the series received the Golden Globes in similar nominations. Career Glover - screenwriter, actor, rapper - over the past year and a half has reached a new level. "Atlanta" has become almost the main achievement of the genre sadkom - comedies that rely not on sketches and machine-gun turns of jokes, accompanied by canned voiceover laughter, but on the tragicomedy of life itself - often not particularly fun. At the beginning of zero sadkomi unexpectedly recovered, and now it is difficult to imagine that sometime - from about the close of the Seinfeld TV series, the fictional autobiography of stand-comedian Jerry Seinfeld - they sat in deep underground. "Master of None" Aziza Ansari, Louie Louis C Kay (partly written off from the same "Seinfeld"), "Love" Judd Apatow, "Baskets" Zach Galifianakis, "Transparent" Jill Solloway - and this is only the tip of the iceberg. But even against its background, "Atlanta" looks like a strange beast. For fifty minutes of the first two episodes of the series about the life of the beginning rapper Paper boi and his cousin Erna (Glover), expelled from the college loser and "lousy fathers" in the family, nothing happens that could be taken for an eyeball intrigues. Ern imposes his brother on managers, argues with parents, tries to reconnect with the mother of his child and sits in the waiting room of the district hospital, watching the strange and absurd everyday life of local workers and patients.

The song Paper boi gets on the radio, and he, as it is supposed to a promising rapper - in a jail for a street fight. The time in the frame flows so slowly that the feeling of provincial boredom and hopelessness (despite the fact that Atlanta is generally an important point on the cultural map of the USA) is not worth much effort. At the same time, these fifty minutes are full of life-affirming humor and small absurdities provoking the viewer to "laugh in spite of". Launching Atlanta with his brother, the second screenwriter of the show, Steven, Donald Glover generally decently missed the moment. Started ten years ago in "30 Rock" (a promising screenwriter on NBC led Tina Fey), by the time of the filming of "Atlanta", he had already made a name for themselves - as rapper Childish Gambino and Troy Barnes from the sitcom "Community". For the sake of working on his own project - and perhaps in order to get rid of the role of the "funny guy" - Glover asked to write him out of the series and almost for a year withdrew from the big movie. If you were an Atlanta show, she could easily bury his career. In a sense, Donald has risen to the same level with his hero, who has no other choice but to put all the chips on the music management - and maybe, therefore, his monologue about poverty ("Beggars do not invest in the future. They do not have time for this, because poor people are too busy to become a little less beggars. I need the money now, not in September! ") Sounds so convincing. Glover shakes the installation "you want to live - be able to turn around", placing emphasis on the harsh necessity: Ern's money is needed not to satisfy ambitions, but to support the family, and his native ghetto leaves not many opportunities for this: either rap management , or drug trafficking on the streets. In this struggle for bread and butter, romance is not that much, which is why Ernu is so easy to sympathize - his problems are clear to anyone who at least once discovered that he has nothing to pay for an apartment next month. Be Ern a typical hustler, and "Atlanta" - another story on "get rich or die", which is enough in the American "black" movie, it would hardly be interesting to look at it. The authors of the series offer another, much more realistic version of the career ladder, on which the main obstacles are small-town denseness (both police and street boys), rabid pofigism, uncontrollable hell of social networks and innumerable prejudices, including, of course, racial. On the theme of race - and above all how ambiguous this issue is perceived by its native minority - "Atlanta" is also expressed unofficially. One of the episodes is entirely done as a parody of a low-budget talk show (greetings to "Tim and Eric" and another absurdist sketch show of the Adult Swim channel), his hero becomes "trans" -personal who wants to be both black and white at the same time. In another, Ern is compelled to listen to the pompous monologues of a local middle-class representative who swears allegiance to black America. The more HYIP appears around the Paper boi, the more often he and his environment face the role models of his community (including the African-American Justin Bieber), and these meetings are not that pleasant. Speaking from within the national minority, Glover hardly tries to please him or be a prophet in his homeland. And this is typical for the series as a whole: mixing anecdotes about muzmenezhmente with everyday drama, everyday with the absurd, ridiculous with the tragic, he does not even zealous to sharpen the problematic angles - not to mention the ready-made recipes. While the prospects for Atlanta on the upcoming Emmy are more or less clear, the future of it, oddly enough, is questionable: Glover, who was approved for the role in the film about Khan Solo, has already confirmed that before next year the second season the airwaves will not come out.

And given the fact that the Star Wars franchise is plunging into production hell before the eyes, even this vague date does not look final. But even Atlanta is destined to hang in the finale of the first season - again, not too similar to the traditional cliffhanger - he has already done a lot to change the face of the comedy genre on modern television. Photos: FX Productions.

Original article: The Emmy Favorite: Donald Glover's "Atlanta" as the opening of the TV season.

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