Amazing how uncomfortably hilarious this manages to be without in the least being insensitive. Just hope it doesn't go too didactic with the messaging, especially with Earl being the constant progressive voice-of-reason and all that.
82 I Atlanta could turn into social commentary sometimes. The writing of this series is pretty good when they combined comedy with that. Almost every bit is funny in this series and when the lines were not funny they could be serious-themed that it brought.
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Rating: 81.25
Plot
P1: 1.2
P2: 1.8
P3: 1.2
P4: 2.0
Director: Hiro Murai
Favorite Characters
1.7: Earnest 'Earn' Marks
1.6: Johnny
1.4: Darius
1.3: Alfred 'Paper Boi' Miles
1.1: PJ
1.0: Crystal
Character Score Meaning
0.0 - 0.1 - 0.2 - 0.3 - 0.4 : Terrible
0.5 - 0.6 - 0.7 - 0.8 : Bad
0.9 - 1.0 - 1.1 - 1.2 : Average
1.3 - 1.4 - 1.5 - 1.6 : Good
1.7 - 1.8 - 1.9 - 2.0 : Great
Review by DeletedBlockedParent2020-01-25T13:20:49Z
Streets on Lock follows on immediately from the previous episode with Earn and Alfred in custody for the shooting incident. The episode focuses on the different and equally disheartening experiences of both men in the hours after their arrest. Alfred's bail is posted relatively quickly and he joins Darius, ready to return to normal. Things have changed, though—the shooting itself has vastly increased his popularity among Atlantans. A police officer collars him to have a selfie taken for Instagram, boasting about arresting Gucci Mane, seemingly unaware of the incongruity of this. Rumours abound and he benefits from upgraded food delivery and an increased sense of respect. On the other hand, children are imitating him, fighting over who gets to be Paper Boi when playing with toy guns. A local mother's attitude towards him changes completely when she realises he is famous and he has the dawning realisation that his fame is now such that the hangers-on are appearing.
Earn, on the other hand, hasn't been processed by the system yet and has to endure a Kafkaesque wait. He observes the ableism, rank transmisogyny and inhumanity of the American prison system, even when people are just being held waiting. There is humour here, but also an inescapable and quite profound sadness: this is a country where people aren't cared for or valued, only treated as an after-thought at best and a menace to be subjugated at all costs at worst. There is no sense of release for either men, even when their ostensible freedom comes. Another mistake and they would end up right back in there.