Atlanta Series Finale: Director Hiro Murai Walks Us Through That Eerie Ending

Atlanta set the bar crazy high for original television with its four seasons over these last six years, and the show wove a dreamy spell until its very last breath in tonight’s series finale. Donald Glover’s FX/Hulu series slid fearlessly between wild absurdism, existential melancholy, and stinging cultural critique as it loosely circled its central gang of four: rising rap star Alfred a.k.a. Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry), his cousin and manager, Earn (Glover), Earn’s girlfriend, Van (Zazie Beetz), and their mystic stoner pal Darius (LaKeith Stanfield). Sometimes it felt like a seductively surreal joke: “Ralph Ellison and David Lynch… Read Full Article