This week we love 'Atlanta,' hate Apple and hunt for a better story than a quarterback taking a knee.
Every week I'll be here to reveal and review some of my favorite moments from the internet. Whether it be binging television shows, streaming sports or simply getting lost in a YouTube rabbit hole, I'm here to give you my top picks every Friday, as well as the perfect pairing to get into an optimal headspace for them. This week, we're watching the first episode for FX's new comedy Atlanta featuring Donald Glover, trying to find our ear buds and deleting people from our social media feeds that are mad at Colin Kaepernick.
Atlanta
Recommended Pairing:A peach Swisher Sweet blunt wrap with all the fillings.
A great pilot episode does a few things right off the bat. First, it sets up a rich universe for the series to live within — a universe the viewer connects with and accepts immediately. You also need to meet the main characters and "get them" right away. A skilled writer and writing staff will make sure the characters they're introducing you to are motivated in their actions so, whether good or bad, the viewer's first impression is impactful. Lastly, a great pilot will pull you right into the series with the first scene or the first couple of scenes.
Atlanta's first episode was a perfectly executed pilot.
From the very first few seconds we have great sense of time, place, characters and action. We start on a dimly lit liquor store parking lot with hip-hop blaring from the speakers of a beat up car. Crickets and katydids fill up any available space in the atmosphere. Immediately I know where we are, who we're with and within a few seconds I'm already on the edge of my seat.
Wasn't that fun?
Great writing, interesting and complex characters (including a token white guy), clever editing of pristine cinematography and subject matter I didn't know I wanted to see a show about. Well, that's not entirely true. I did gobble up every single second of VICE's Noisey Atlanta series.
FX just added a show to my very short watch live every week list. I have a feeling I'll be writing more about the wisdom of Darius' constant non-sequiturs in a column sooner than later.
Apple
Recommended Pairing:With Bluetooth only, apparently.
No company in the history of this great nation has offered innovative technology as a solution for everyday problems. This week we saw that Apple has taken this sense of courage to begin offering very expensive solutions to problems it's created for itself.
I wish I didn't love/need my MacBook so goddamned much. I bet it feels amazing hating Apple and all their fanboys with reckless abandon.
At least Google is planning some cool shit with their new slate of phones.
QB Kneel
Recommended Pairing:Clear eyes and full hearts.
How was this the biggest news from the week? Seriously?
America is fucking broken, can we get our shit together and talk about anything else?
How about this:
A senator in Mexico has said he will put forward a motion to reclaim the American land once owned by Mexico if Donald Trump is elected President of the United States (and repeals NAFTA, as he has said he would do).
That'd be fun.
The meat to his point is that our two countries have dozens of agreements together, which naturally, are incredibly beneficial to the United States like the 1848 treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The treaty, if you remember your American history lessons, ended the Mexican - American war and gave us both Texas and California. Not that they'd really get it back. But it is a fun thought experiment. It's always nice to have someone point out the consequences of the stupid shit that comes tumbling out of Donald's mouth.
So I won't have to move to Mexico or Canada – I can just stay here in sunny Los Angeles and watch the 48 remaining American states crumble under "the Don's" tiny hands.
Nope, we didn't talk about that. We didn't talk about the Native Americans protesting the oil pipeline planned to be built through their lands. We didn't talk about them being pepper sprayed and attacked by dogs. That shit happened!
We could have talked about the Mars simulation and how neat it is that we just had a crew spend 365 days pretending to live on the red planet. Would it kill you to interview one of those guys and celebrate the idea that we're going to have people on MOTHER FUCKING MARS one day?
Can someone report some news about the NASA rocket we just sent up to intercept an asteroid?
No? Really? Well, that sucks.
Instead we got every angle of what was essentially a non-story covered for a whole week.
I heard people talking about the spike in his jersey sales then debating on what percentage of those jerseys were being doused in lighter fluid. The whole thing is ridiculous.
We had to see every fat-faced pundit scream about veterans and patriotism because a guy tried to take a stand by kneeling.
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