If you haven’t seen it yet, I recommend Atlanta. Glover created, produces, writes and often directs it, and stars as in it as an Ivy League dropout trying to manage his cousin’s burgeoning rap career. It’s uniquely funny, surreal and incisive:
“Storytelling is just simplifying what’s happening to you. Life is just a story. Stuff that happens to you, you just put into story mode. I just take what’s there and put it into story mode on a smaller level so that you can be like, ‘Oh my God, that’s life! I totally relate to that.’”
I’m a philistine but I’m not surprised that I love the music. I already knew of Childish Gambino, but it was from this show that I learned about Lakeith Stanfield (who you might also know from Get Out):