Outrageous Moments 'Atlanta's' Season 2 Premiere

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It’s officially Robbin’ Season, Atlanta is back and it’s as deliciously weird and woke as ever cause if you blink you might miss one the shows deep messages. The first episode dubbed “Alligator Man” for very obvious reasons we will get into later in this recap starts off with a bang. 

SPOILERS AHEAD!

Atlanta always finds a way to incorporate some insane moment that at first glance will have you saying what just happened but somehow in the end makes sense. When the episode starts we meet two young friends who are just having a casual conversation while one of them plays FIFA. They eventually take a trip to a Mrs. Winners restaurant and put in a drive-thru order. When they roll up to the window and the worker turns to hand them their food they are in the car with masks on and we learn their true intentions—the jux.

They were not there for the food but for the drugs being stashed in the restaurant. One of the masked young men immediately starts shooting and enters the restaurant through the drive-thru window. He heads straight to the back and finds exactly what he was looking for. On his way out he is greeted by the worker who he originally starting shooting at but he is ready this time with an AK 47.

A shootout ensues between the one stick-up kid and the “manager” and the robber manages to make it out to the car. The Mrs. Winners employee follows behind and we see someone is clearly wounded or possibly dead when a young woman covered in blood hops out the car screaming. The car leaves her and just like that Atlanta season 2 begins.

As you can guess, the scene got Twitter’s juices flowing.

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Safe to say NO ONE saw that scene coming at all.

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Last season we learned that Earn made the grown man decision to remain homeless rather than to mooch off Van and Al aka Paper Boi. He is woken up in the same storage unit he decided to rest his head at the end of season one by a worker who catches Earn sleeping in the unit. The worker is there just to steal items out of the unit. Earn explains that’s not how things are supposed to go and the worker replies  “I watch Storage Wars, too,” and lets him know this ain’t that. Earn runs to Al’s house hoping he can find a place to lay his head.

Paper Boi is clearly in a new space cause he got money now so everything  revolves around keeping him content. Darius (LaKeith Stanfield) is and his high wokeness is still there as well.

Earn asks Al if he can sleep on the couch, in response he is given the task to handle a situation going on with his Uncle Willy (Katt Williams) who has supposedly kidnapped his girlfriend Yvonne. Earn accepts the quest and asks for a ride from Darius whom seems to be having some sort of beef with Paper Boi but they never really elaborate on it.

Before they go to Willy’s house Darius takes Earn to see his probation officer. While on the way there Darius drops the “Florida Man” story. Darius in this classic hits blunt moment describes Florida Man as the alt-right version of Johnny Appleseed who happens to be the “Florida Man” in the headlines when crazy but sadly real situations happen int the sate. Twitter was besides themselves when they found out exactly what the hell he was talking about.

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It’s very safe to say we will never look at another “Florida Man” headline the same after this episode of Atlanta.

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Atlanta always manages to speak on the hypocrisies of the world especially those that affect black folks. We learn Earn was arrested for half a joint and in nod to point out how  messed up and unfair our criminal justice and probation system is to poor people, Earn can’t afford to pay $375 for the anti-drug classes he had to take due to his arrest.

In a full circle moment back to the episodes action-packed and at the same time unfortunate scene, Earn and Darius pass the crime scene where the shootout took place. While getting gas, a police car races by and Darius proclaims ‘Its Robbin Season”, Earn asks what does that mean and Darius replies “Christmas approaches, and everybody gotta eat.”.

BRUH!

There is another Darius moment, Earn asks exactly what flavor is a hot cheeto. Darius answers back “hot”. Twitter took a pull after that one.

https://twitter.com/ItsRibbs/status/969411495976165376

Darius and Earn finally make to Willy’s house, Earn tells Darius to stay in the car but he insists on coming in cause he’s feeling some very interesting “vibes”. Willy reluctantly lets Earn and Darius in and Darius drops another gem for the Atlanta viewers to digest.

Willy has Yvonne locked up in the bedroom because he believes she stole $50 from him while he was sleeping. Earn is trying to convince his uncle to end the situation and we learn in the process that Uncle Willy has alligator named coach in the bathroom. Willy gives Earn the keys to the bedroom and to have a conversation with Yvonne and find out exactly what happened. Earn finds outs that Yvonne didn’t call the cops but the neighbors did. While they are in the bedroom two cops show up on the scene and engage in a hilarious back and forth with Willy but Willy never lets them in and warns them about the alligator. The cops don’t believe him, the children and neighbors back up Willy by tell the cops he is the “Alligator Man”of hood legend.

Back inside Earn gives Yvonne a $100 to squash the situation and it seems like that is about to happen. Unfortunately this is Earn’s crazy life and things quickly get out of hand again. Yvonne is fed up and leaves and proclaims she was kidnapped while walking out the house. Darius also leaves because the vibes feel like prison just leaving Earn and his Uncle in the house. In a deep moment, Earn reveals that he feels Al no longer needs him, Willy gives Earn a gold gun and looks as if he is about to give up and tells him to  “get the chip off his shoulder before Earn winds up like him.”

Back outside the front doors open, instead of Willy walking out it’s the legendary alligator casually walking out the front door to tune of “Hey Love” by The Delfonics. While everyone marvels at the sight of the exotic pet in a very iconic scene that is now a legendary gif Uncle Willy is scene running down the street in just his robe and socks.

Twitter enjoyed the amazing scene, Coach the alligator and Katt Williams’ amazing performance.

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Earn went through all of that find out he still don’t have no where stay. Welcome back to Atlanta everyone.