Atlanta Season 3 Episode 6 Review
For nearly six years now, Donald Glover has been on the path of portraying, challenging, and even redefining for some their perception of blackness via Atlanta’s unmistakable brand of comedy, and it was about time that experiment carried on to other shores, especially now that the show’s third season has taken the cast all the way across the pond.
Quite frankly, Paper Boi’s European tour has carefully selected its locations in the old continent to do that, but perhaps this week's “White Fashion” one-ups the rest in terms of showcasing how different black culture is in other parts of the world, where racism still exist but lives on taking wholly new and yet familiar forms. To do this, Atlanta resorts to its usual trick of sending each cast member out on their own adventures set off by a fashion campaign gone wrong.
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It all begins in the haute couture London workshop of renowned designer Bouchet, who’s coming up with the brand's latest coveted a time a varsity jacket bearing traditional manga art made by a Tel-Aviv artist. It’s chic, it’s expensive, it’s white fashion. The only problem is the French visionary has decided to emblazon the jacket with the number 5 and the words “Central Park,” thus triggering a shameful run of ads in the United States with the cherry on top being the white woman surrounded by Black people on Erso Erso’s billboards.
In America, the Central Park Five is a landmark case on racial profiling and discrimination, however, in Europe, it wouldn’t be commonplace for the vast majority of people to be familiarized with Americans’ own brand of racism, so blame it on the localization team to take the fall. Enter rapper Paper Boi to jump aboard Erso Erso’s
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