Reviews

This show was the first in years where I planned to watch it when it aired despite me setting the DVR to record it. The same way people geeked out on Game of Thrones, this show just struck my funny bone with the obvious situational humor and subded dark tones intertwined in it all. The basis of the show is about a upcoming rapper set in modern day Atlanta and his cousin who wants to be his manager. But what makes the show great is how the story is told. The storyline works like a drama but the perspective works like a comedy. This is much like the movie and show Parenthood; the storyline is not really a comedy but misery loving company can be funny. Atlanta works out the same way with the plot filtered through the lens of dark humor seen in Married with Children and Curb Your Enthusiasm. The show is well acted, well written, surprising, engaging, and most important it is funny.

The film still holds up years later because the movie is about what we are and who we are in this world explored by the characters Willard and Kurtz. The setting happens to be Vietnam in the craziness of the war contrasted against the absurdness of different societal organization. The Redux version I think is far superior but to appreciate it you should watch the original first to really understand the change. I rate it a 10 because this is a film worth owning in a personal or family collection.