Atlanta Season 3 Premiere is Creepy! Lake Lanier + Devonte Hart

[@navyvet2841]

Do the third episode

[@NineNerdYards]

Uploading it right now! You better watch this shit! kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnLOaoiKg7CBe68

[@moises3692]

@@NineNerdYards started binge watching your videos after finishing Atlanta, great stuff 🙌🏽

[@Jacquoribraddock]

Im rewatching the show now and when the cop said “you know who you look like with that hat? Aloe Black” was DIABOLICAL!!!!!!! 😂🤣🤣

[@kingty_5678]

The black mom thing is somewhat realistic but it’s more of a exaggeration of how far a black mom will go to have her son/daughter to act right. She knew he wasn’t stupid or anything but the school thought he needed remedial classes which is true the way teachers are fast to put black kids in them classes😂 I was one of them kids in kindergarten that was bad, I knew what I was doing I was just being terrible and showing out I went to a all white school by the way I was the only black kid in class I had a tutor and I litterally did the homework by myself lol , that mom situation happened to me it was like I was relieving that moment she gave me that speech when I was little, but back to the show the mom knew he was gonna come back she was just tired of his bs. The real thing was Atlanta decided to show why black moms are hard on their children and to ssee why those white moms were being nice but being cruel with their actions and being fake woke moms

[@ironloins]

Thank u!

[@NineNerdYards]

Love this comment. I actually did feel it with all the scenes with the mom at the school. I just thought it was kind of out of left when she just kicked him out. It was just a strange juxtaposition between those scenes and maybe could have been fleshed out a little better. But that's a lot to put into one episode considering all of the other stuff going on in it.

[@Dezzy122692]

Actually it wasn’t really an exaggeration, I grew with a black mother just like that and she sent one of my brother’s to cps and I grew up with friends whose mother’s did the same thing to them. The black experience is harsh when you grow up in hoods or projects.

[@SecundaJoseph]

@@Dezzy122692 for some people. I grew up in the hood and I was surrounded by loving mothers & grandmothers & aunts who didn’t play but would never give their children up.. that’s the worst thing that could’ve happened to them. I don’t think that’s common. I think it can happen to anyone. But I do think they were showing the juxtaposition of what looks like abuse how culture a slap embarrassing a child you love and care for can look “dangerous” vs what’s dangerous even culturally how snatching children our of their homes for class/culture offenses is not hood for children.

[@Dezzy122692]

@@SecundaJoseph okay but that was your own experience. I experienced, my family members and also a lot of the kids near me growing up has experienced this so for my hood this was common. Most of are parents wasn’t so loving and we were out on the streets surviving on our own. I think this was meant in a literal way because most of the older generation among us would say if you call cps, you’re leaving with them because if you think staying with me is bad then imagine how life will be in foster care.

[@jman23bball13]

In S1 E1 when Earn wakes up he talks about a dream where we was in a pool/ocean and he felt seaweed like hands pulling at him.

[@JBadge]

That can explain so much

[@bojurie]

Also the white guy is called Earn it's a mirror

[@josephalcindor61]

The devonte hart story honestly FUCKED ME UP. I think the dream within a dream sequence is Atlanta’s way of keeping up with the black surrealism motive and framing it like “fucked up things are always happening” but at the end of the day for characters like Erm, there’s no time to really process or dwell on it. Notice at the end he has what anyone would agree is a nightmare but he doesn’t wake up in a cold sweat or panting or anything, he just wakes up, shakes off the cobwebs and keeps it pushing. Actually kind of reminds me of the opening scene from the opening episode where the main characters essentially commit a murder but by the next scene they’ve just moved on with their lives, nobody brings it up, there’s basically no repercussions, it’s just something that’s just apart of the black experience in Atlanta and the characters have just learned to live with it. Deep stuff, definitely looking forward to more videos !

[@javier93]

This guy watches F.D. Sig hell yeeh !

[@ironloins]

Absolutely fucked me up bro

[@pitchking5496]

The kid dancing on the desk to the Black Panther field trip news and him getting slapped by his grandfather are parodying two real life memes.

[@SensetiveKaiju]

Let me hop in the black mom thread. Yes I feel like it spoke to me on a deep hurtful level. Because my mom was the same way. I had been "pretend" kicked out several times before I even made it to highschool. And the quite solem reaction of the mom at the end I saw it like this. There is a theme. The disconnect between the child and his family members before he was taken. He was missing something that is almost seen as a staple in many black communities. Trauma specifically trauma from the outside world. He was a kid around kids and that was the problem for the mom and the grandfather. They didn't want him to have the perspective of a kid. They wanted him to view it as the dangerous world that pocs have to exist in. The teacher and the principle didn't see the dancing as that big of a problem but the mom saw it through her own lense of trauma and because her son hadn't gone through it yet until the end. There was a disconnect. The solem and cold greeting at the end wasn't as harsh as it seemed. It was a mutual recognition of her son going through the generationation right of passage. The burden that must be carried. I don't think the family of 3 dynamic was a mistake. I feel that the 3 smacks are the 3 forms of trauma the grandfather went through. The mother went through. And he must go through. Those are my feelings. Could just be nonsense.

[@NineNerdYards]

I really like this take! Since all of that happened in Earns dream I wonder if its going to influence a big decision he might need to make later on in the season.

[@ironloins]

I should report you for having the most sensible and thought provoking comment in here, we all feel silly lol

[@santiagotandazo703]

Oh

[@Mrsierramist1]

Nailed it

[@AM-fb4pb]

The best way to put it

[@desdes7900]

Black mom logic “yo ass gone learn”… we’ve all been giving that speech,, “these white folks don’t give a damn about you”… we definitely got and lived the message.. I understand why you didn’t get it, and respect that you were honest about it…

[@woodardisaghost]

Understanding the protagonist’s mother honestly takes living it to fully understand her character. Where I’m from, “I can show you better than I can tell you” can be an experience just as much as correction. This mother understood experience would be the best lesson, and potentially can better equip the son for this world. Everything out there to “help” you could also be just what harms you. This season for sure was one of my favorites

[@ShingiMavima]

I thoroughly enjoyed this one, as I tend to do. Well done bringing in those real life reference points into our purview. I got the Devonte reference right away due to the hat :/ Looking forward to the rest of this series!

[@skyrun1]

The mom gave him up so easily, because she realized right away that the child protective series came because he exaggerated to guidance counselor. The hint is that he wanted a taste of the grass greener on the other side.

[@dwaniscool]

I watched several reviews and yours is the most thorough commentary! Great job and Thank you!!!

[@JOSSHBLoris]

I think the “Grand Canyon” was a metaphor for the haunted lake as a final destination

[@nylesterling9121]

If you examine the children characters thoughts while in the back of the van it accurately depicts the personality’s of the main characters in the show. (Laquerious as Earn. Young girl#1 as Paperboi, Young African boy as Darius and the Young girl #2 as Van) just a theory.

[@XsK5]

This feels like a sort of Once uppon a time in Hollywood, where they take a known story and at the end give it a happy ending. However, the story gets surreal once they stop to let the dog out. All of the sudden the kids are out, the dog is in under the hat and everybody is happy? And the kid just walked home after all this? Plus, at the end you can hear steps behind the kid, like something is coming for him. Looks like that was something Earn added in his dream, or the kid actually died and went "home".

[@khalilfreeman7194]

This video’s dope! Just got introduced to your channel today and I can already tell it’s criminally underrated, can’t wait to watch the rest of ur videos and see what you’ve got coming up. Great work!!!!!!!

[@MaskedHeart]

✔✔✔

[@djvoss3075]

I felt like the eponymous three slaps were a good representation of what to expect when watching Atlanta. They were so unexpected, being simultaneously shocking and funny, just like the show.

[@Dezzy122692]

The beginning of this episode was popular vine videos

[@mannygomez2776]

saw your ep 9 recap, and 7, now working my way from 1 to 8, good work.

[@joker_views]

been looking for a channel that talks about Atlanta so im rlly glad i found your channel

[@blackdadsanonymous4590]

The bit with the mum where you said you don’t get is she was ready for this situation to happen and predicted it as it wasn’t the first time she’d been called to the school so she knew sooner or later the “system” would come for him.

[@ironloins]

All due respect bro, its a reason why you didn't get the direction that they were goin in establishing the hyperbolic black moms methods, but trust me, blk people and all black moms ESPECIALLY got it.

[@NineNerdYards]

LMAO... I am black bro. But go off.

[@ironloins]

@@NineNerdYards you got it bro

[@sawlty-suite5131]

He's clearly not black

[@ironloins]

@@sawlty-suite5131 lol maaan I just let it ride n laugh

[@royaltyblessed2454]

Man’s is def black but has had a different experience..our culture affects us all but sometimes in different ways…

[@dionthepion1268]

Just found your channel so ive come to watch all your atlanta recaps great work. The three slaps is also real there is a video of a grandad doing that at school and theres a video of a mum forcing her son to dance also

[@SensetiveKaiju]

I lived in Atlanta for a bit. I can attest to the horrors that still occur surrounding lake lenier

[@for_kestrel6490]

i live very close to atlanta and i forget about that a lot when watching this show, this episode actually reminded me of lake lenier when i first saw it but i didn’t even make that connection. i went to that lake for my 10th birthday. i didn’t almost drown but i fell off a boat into the water and i didn’t get to the air for an uncomfortable amount of time. not sure if this is true but i heard that day that many of the coffins buried under that lake get unearthed by the water.

[@nylesterling9121]

This channel is awesome tho man. Just started tuning in as of this past week. Really good revelations and Easter eggs I hadn’t noticed before. Great work

[@Polymath1998]

There’s many places like that lake in America for ex Central Park in New York

[@Antwannnn]

Could you elaborate?

[@Polymath1998]

@@Antwannnn kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZoHGmGelqNN4rLM

[@Polymath1998]

@@Antwannnn kzbin.info/www/bejne/omSnZZuJhsiKmM0

[@marsmith1907]

@@Antwannnn "Central park" was a thriving "black" town called Seneca Village. Why else would it be such a popular place today?

[@IProtein09]

The slap with the grandpa is a recall to a viral video that actually happened lol

[@benjaminbryant3721]

Yes & the part where the two white women parents ran off the bridge is based off of a true event too where they committed suicide but the actual adopted kids was still in the car with them sadly 🙏🏾

[@dindaragalvao4152]

This is perfect! thank you for these videos!!!

[@MrMakoislost]

I knew I was going to regret listening to any part of this review of his show. How you completely gross over the all black Town underneath the water. How there has been several Black towns throughout American history that was destroyed because the white people wanted a lake.

[@MeghannMonroe]

I live in Atlanta. And love Lake Lanier. Bc this is the south and a major location for the civil war, I doubt there is a square inch where a black person wasn’t murdered. We have landmark trees and I often think of how many black ppl hung from these trees… just something to think about. And highways and trains were used the same way, to dismantle black communities

[@fefegalore]

@@MeghannMonroe I live here too & I agree w/all you said, I think about it a lot too bc I spend a lot of time in the woods. Except 1 thing, I don't step foot on Lake Lanier eva! 😅 But enjoy sis and be safe.

[@eclecticcollector88]

You need wayyy more subs. Content is too good to go unseen. Subbed! 🙌

[@simonwilkosz7562]

are you using auto tune?

[@seafoaaam]

the moment in which the ladies leave the dog to "save" its life reminds me of that scene on the shooting range with darius, its making the same point abt white people elevating the lives of dogs

[@powfoot4946]

RIP Devonte Hart

[@kiara8489]

First off, bravo on this series. I’m so so so intrigued by your insight and dialogue on this series. You’re really good. Second, I’ll be sending through thoughts and tid bits from the episodes, because I’m watching the season again and I wanted to point out the scene where the moms talk after they let cornpop go, there is someone in the background. I heard a rustle and realized there was someone in the back of that scene, listening to them talk. I can’t get a screen grab on mobile, but it’s worth maybe sending your thoughts on it? I’m trying to think, maybe it’s the “other” Urn. Like anytime a white person kindof realizes a buried truth (they don’t know the best interest of (black) children because they don’t understand how to be caring and loving in a substantial way), he’s guiding that. Displaying the “curse” as it were plainly, and very ugly. I’m very interested in your thoughts on this. - Caitlyn

[@NineNerdYards]

Thank you! Join the discord and send them my way.

[@kaydijdrahblack5529]

Atlanta rewrites news stories, and its brilliant ❤🎉 it was obvious about the Davonte Hart tragedy to remind us this world has subliminal foreshadowing.

[@AceShot31]

That clip with the mom and grandad in the hallway having him dance and getting slapped is real it’s video out there on the internet

[@dominaX337]

Art imitates life. May the children RIH.

[@jesusramones1]

The Grand Canyon like Thelma and Louise!

[@zuperkid93]

The car crash ep is relatable to a lot of black people because we grew up on getting whooped and always knew we had to keep it a secret because uk its out of love most of the time and either way you wouldnt want to go to foster care. The mom is wiser than they make her look. She really did take a chance but it was more of teaching the son a lifelong lesson to behave and also shining light on the sanctimonious efforts of CPS by them taking a child from his mother for discipline and giving them to strangers who almost killed them.

[@joshuakhabele15]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/kGOvp2CMmquMrcU Heres the video that is refered to when the kid gets slapped by his grandfather

[@NineNerdYards]

Thank you for sending me this!

[@jaquanjohnson1476]

Crazy how you missed the two meme references the one with the dancing in the table then the three slaps thing was another viral vine I believe (I’m unsure of the platform but it’s definitely a famous video)

[@NineNerdYards]

Yeah this video kinda sucks lol. 🤷🏾‍♂️I’ve thought about redoing it sometime in the future.

[@snakesonthismondaytofriday1750]

First episode Earn describes a dream of him being pulled down by hands in the water

[@franekkkkk]

The white guy at the start also states that “whiteness” isn’t real. Than he says something about Armenians. It’s very interesting because throughout American history different people were white or not. For example Italians or Irish people or Jews (although not as much). And during the periods they “weren’t white” they experienced discrimination. And when you realise that whiteness= power you see that in America you can become white by having power. Such the white guy also says. And then you see the white ladies think to themselves “why did people let us do this why were they so supportive?”, it’s not them asking themselves. It’s the writers asking us. Their white privilege was destructive to the women and to the children. And the writers are literally asking “why do we let this shit happen?”.

[@Sakaajani3625]

@@franekkkkk What I find most interesting about that scene, is the part where they ask “Why didn’t anyone stop us?”. What sticks out to me is the Black woman social worker was going to stop them. She had every intention to prevent them from further harming the children but they got defensive, saying she doesn’t know their whole situation as a ploy and killed her. If they wanted to be stopped for their terrible parenting and behavior, why did they kill the one person who was willing to?

[@tam2844]

Although I do like your videos I don’t think you really understood this particular episode. There was so much more here than you could ever understand. However great job putting this video together.

[@quyvette]

Having watched all of your reviews on this season I completely understand why people accuse you of not being black. As you’ve obviously pointed out you are black but that’s why I think what they meant to say was “African American.” And I echo that sentiment as well lol the family dynamic and the mothers role was never questioned by me, it all made perfect sense in the lenses of “black culture” which in America is African American culture particularly. You are indeed the African guy in with the flame thrower in the black and white episode. But I appreciate your videos nonetheless.

[@ZebbeCali]

Nah, Jamie Neumann is awesome, you gotta see “The Deuce”.

[@NineNerdYards]

I’ve been sleeping on that one. On my watchlist.

[@dpouch03]

U got autotune?

[@dpouch03]

@@Mbewe_SM great video though

[@JEEDUHCHRI]

Your narration sounds like it would be a character in the show. You’d approach Earn and say: “Aaw hell naw she ain’t even gon be having that like…”

[@childish1311]

When devante gets in trouble, the aftermath is based on 3 viral videos. The kids dancing when they get black Panther tickets, a mom making her kid dance for getting in trouble in class and a grandpa slapping his grandchild in the same way.

[@hbq3000]

Actually use to live in Portland Oregon around the time Devonte Hart and his family got recognized from that hug with a cop in 2014 or so. It seemed very weird but then again that was pretty normal for white hippish lesbians to be adopting black kids in pdx

[@fruiitpunch]

You got autotune on yo voice bruh?

[@JOSSHBLoris]

I definitely see a connection with the black guy in the boat and Earn’s seaweed hands dream in S1E1.

[@evensteven5532]

weird question: Are you using autotune?

[@bebeenderson7863]

Uh, where’s season 2?

[@-HamzaEllaithty]

The three slaps were inspired by an old video

[@sirsilis2]

Great reviews but you’re not tapped in with the culture quite enough because so much of this episode is taking from relatively known events that you overlooked

[@thinblacknoodles]

In Aa culture because we have been through so much aa mothers ( in some cases not all) give a tuff love approach about their children especially when the mother has no male figure to back her up, like grandpa would be yo old to handle him as he get order

[@mauriceheath3553]

The slaps were a reference to a video

[@NikLovin757]

Maybe the mom that killed the social worker left the clipboard on her body because she knew they were not going to be coming back.

[@ipmbznews9906]

The moms attitude about the young boy life seems to familiar. The teacher and system to "help" . The voiceless kids

[@Mrsierramist1]

It is a little disappointing that you don't get the exaggerated black mom character. I do think the show could do better when writing black women, but this "tough love" is viewed as necessary to survive in a world that views black people a certain way. She assumed her son called them on her, a threat that he has probably made before, and she has probably warned him that she would let them take him away. (I know this was the case in my household.). She was a mom of her world. Furthermore, what was she really going to do to fight them successfully, especially if he made the call.

[@foolishgenius6007]

The hands that pulled the guy off the boat I think are from the dream Earn was talking to Van about in bed in the very first episode

[@averagemansht8607]

😢😢😢

[@gyno_theeartist2566]

I don't why but I knew the slap was gonna happen and alot of other things in this episode almost ....that was weird as fuck ..

[@sirsilis2]

The three slaps comes from a viral video

[@jabrilmuhammad8592]

This is really good and I love it but the things you dont understand or don’t understand the direction they were going in. They are expressing nuances that are common in in black homes and making jokes about it

[@mushmouf1400]

That hat u like so much. So AL wore one later. See a connection

[@lunasperidot8760]

I feel like I'm the only one who feels incredibly sorry for laquarious. He's just kinda fucked. He's in a household with people who don't give a shit about him. And when someone tries to get him out he ends up with two crazies and ends up in the abusive household he started in. a really dour way to start the series

[@Adaijiarm101]

He wasn’t abused in the house he was originally in he had to go a real abusive household to appreciate what his real mom was trying to tell him but he continually didn’t listen experience was the best teacher and he learned that day

[@sawlty-suite5131]

White people ,am I right guys?😂😂😂 just joshing

[@sawlty-suite5131]

Am I? maybe