FX’s Atlanta has delighted in messing with our minds for 4 seasons now, so it’s becoming that Thursday’s sequence finale had us feeling one final time like we had been trapped inside a surreal (and hilarious) dream.
Darius is lounging on the sofa watching Choose Judy whereas Al and Earn get able to go eat. Darius declines their invitation to hitch them, although, saying he has a “dep date,” i.e., an appointment to drift round in a sensory deprivation tank. (“It’s like being within the womb once more,” he says with awe.) Al and Earn go eat at a Black-owned sushi restaurant to help their group, however Al actually simply needs to go to the Popeyes throughout the road. He additionally notices that the sushi place was a Blockbuster; the hollowed-out signal remains to be out entrance. On his technique to the deprivation tank, Darius stops to select up a prescription for a pal and finally ends up speaking with a lady who’s additionally spent a while within the tank, however she give up as a result of the hallucinations grew to become too intense and he or she couldn’t inform what was actual. Darius has a trick to anchor himself, although: He seems to be at a TV and sees whether or not Choose Judy is, um, curvier than ordinary. “If I see her and he or she’s thick, I do know I’m within the tank.”
Van joins Al and Earn on the sushi restaurant — her pal is an investor — and Al remains to be eyeing that Popeyes. Van is feeling the identical manner, truthfully: “We’ll go after, I promise,” she assures him. Darius is strolling to the deprivation tank place when he runs right into a outdated pal named London, who provides him a trip in her automotive. She presents him some weed, and he or she’s additionally ingesting vodka out of a water bottle: “I’ve been macrodosing all day!” She will get pulled over by the cops and does her greatest to sober up, and when the cop asks her if that’s water in her bottle, she chugs the entire thing to show it (!). The cop makes her step outdoors for a sobriety take a look at, which she appears to go — did he actually simply ask her what number of seasons of Homeboys in Outer Area there have been? — however then she steals the cop’s gun and speeds off in her automotive, hitting a child on a motorcycle on the best way. She runs away blaming Darius… who wakes up within the sensory deprivation tank, realizing that was all a tank-induced hallucination. He takes a break within the tea room, however one thing’s nonetheless off, so he grabs one other buyer by the shoulders and yells, “Get up!” in her face. That will get him promptly kicked out, though he protests: “I assumed it was a dream!”
Al is struggling via the sushi meal, and Van isn’t liking it a lot, both: “The rice has corn in it. I can’t.” Earn tries to persuade them to offer it an opportunity, however the server providing them some “sizzling white Hennessy” is the final straw for Al. As for Darius, he visits his sick brother, bringing him the prescription he picked up, and so they have a candy dialog the place Darius says he misses him. However when he seems to be on the TV? Choose Judy is thick! He wakes up again within the tank, and the worker there tells him he’s been in there for “30 minoots”… which triggers him to get up once more! Is that this actual life? Al is able to stroll out of the sushi restaurant when the server tries to offer them toxic blowfish cheek, however he’s stopped by the restaurant’s militant, bow-tied proprietor, who laments that they’re getting ready every little thing within the true Japanese custom, however as a result of they’re Black, everybody assumes it’s soiled. He tells Al that the well-known Popeyes hen recipe comes not from a Black lady, however from an Italian man. “The issue with us is we don’t belief one another,” he says as he urges Al to attempt the blowfish — and orders his workers to lock the doorways.
Fortunately, Darius bursts in simply in time to rescue them, with them peeling out in a loopy purple convertible with zebra stripe seat covers. (And he received them Popeyes, too!) Again at house, they get pleasure from their quick meals and giggle collectively, asking Darius the place he received the automotive. He stole it, he says, however he’s not anxious about going through expenses: “I’m nonetheless within the tank.” Earn tries to inform him that is all actual, however Darius stands agency: “Possibly it’s simply my dream, and also you had been simply in it. All the time have been.” The opposite three go off to smoke weed and snicker and discuss, and Darius watches them via a window earlier than turning again to the TV to see Choose Judy. Is she thick, although? We don’t see what Darius sees. We simply see him watch her… and smile.
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