She is sporting a new hairstyle - modeled, she will explain later, on Audrey Tautou as the title character of Amélie - speaking with an affected French accent, and acting as if she is Parisian, born and raised. But Candice has been on Atlanta before, as one of the friends Van went with to the party at Drake’s house in Season Two’s “Champagne Papi.” (She’s the one who gets Van and the others into the house, but also the one who ditches them to go check out T-Pain’s party.) And right on cue after Candice mentions how useful it is to know a person who lives in Paris, who should walk past but her old friend Vanessa? This is not the Van whom either we or Candice thought we knew, though. The episode begins, in fact, as if it is going to be yet another anthology story, as we are with a trio of women - Candice (Adriyan Rae), Xosha (Xosha Roquemore), and Shanice (Shanice Castro) - going wild over a trip to Paris paid for by a man who gets off on Candice peeing on him. “Tarrare” explains all of that, though it takes quite a while to get there. Al’s bout with writer’s block, his ongoing questions about Earn’s management, Socks randomly joining the entourage (and just as randomly disappearing from it, it seems) - none have carried on for quite as long as Van’s mysterious arrival on the tour and her even more mysterious disappearance from it. Yes, the tour has been happening this whole time, but it’s primarily been an excuse for the group to have other adventures throughout Europe. “Tarrare” is not just a hilarious closing note for Season Three, but a conclusion of the closest thing we’ve had to an ongoing story arc. Robinson can do introspective and thematically ambitious, too - she co-wrote Season One’s Van spotlight “Value” and penned Al’s harrowing “Woods” odyssey last season - but even more than Donald Glover himself, Robinson seems to understand the ways in which these characters and this show’s very specific, dream-like tone can be bent in the service of gut-busting humor. Other episodes certainly had their funny moments, particularly whenever Al’s patience was wearing out, but Atlanta is capable of being the funniest show in the world when it wants to be, and it hadn’t yet tried to remind us of that this year.Įnter writer Stefani Robinson, who closes the season on an explosively funny and absurd note with “Tarrare.” Splitting her time the last few years between this series and What We Do in the Shadows, Robinson has the distinction of having written the no-doubt-about-it funniest installment of each: “Barbershop” (where Al’s quest for a good haircut led to a series of humiliations) here, and “On the Run” (which introduced the world to regular human bartender Jackie Daytona) on Shadows. The one thing Season Three had yet to give us prior to this week, though, was Atlanta going to an absolutely bonkers comedic space in the way we know that it can. Across the last two and a half months, Atlanta has given us four different anthology episodes exploring Black life in America (your mileage will vary on whether this was too many, the perfect amount, or not enough), a locked room mystery, an introspective drug trip with a bonus Liam Neeson cameo, a satire of corporate co-opting of Black celebrity, and more. ![]() ![]() A review of the AtlantaSeason Three finale, “Tarrare,” coming up just as soon as I ask my friend’s cousin to pee on you…Īnd here we come to the end of this long-delayed, ambitious, confounding, frequently incredible season of television.
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