We’re six weeks and seven episodes into Atlanta, and there’s nothing stopping the show’s stride as one of the best TV shows this fall.
The latest installment, “B.A.N. [Black America Network],” revolves around Paper Boi’s appearance on the talk show “Montague,” which poses as a black-ified version of Dateline or 60 Minutes. Its host, Franklin Montague (Alano Miller), declares that the show’s topic will revolve around “accepting sexuality and its effects on Black youth and culture.” The fake panel’s guests includes Deborah Holt (Mary Kraft), a representative from the Center for Trans-American Issues, and Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry), who really doesn’t have a reason to be there other than for publicity’s sake. They bring up Paper Boi’s Twitter rant about Caitlyn Jenner, but he could give less of a fuck about what he said. He has said worse. (Sidenote: What is “Illuminati sex”?)
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