‘Atlanta’ Review: Season 3 Levels Up in Donald Glover’s Rousing Return to FX

Four years ago, “Atlanta” began its second season without Earn (Donald Glover), Alfred (Brian Tyree Henry), Vanessa (Zazie Beetz), or Darius (Lakeith Stanfield).

“Alligator Man” starts with two previously unseen young men playing video games and planning dinner.

They settle on Mrs.

Winner’s: a two-for-one stop that sells chicken and biscuits with a side of weed.

But when their car pulls up to the pick-up window, the mundane desire to get high and eat fast food is shattered by surprise gunfire.

The driver is wearing a panda mask, and the passenger is aiming a firearm at the cashier; a cashier who, only a few seconds later, shoots back at the thieves, his trigger finger still wrapped in food prep gloves.The impromptu burglary sets the stage for “Robbin’ Season,” the subtitle for a Season 2 filled many more bizarre and reckless acts — from Alfred getting repeatedly mugged by his own

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