Atlanta is ready to say goodbye with season 4 in September
"It's the most grounded season yet," Donald Glover says of his FX comedy's swan song
The game, so to speak, is almost over for Earn Marks, Paper Boi, Van Keefer, and Darius. FX’s award-winning comedy Atlanta will end with its fourth and final season, premiering on September 15.
Created by Donald Glover, the show follows Princeton dropout Earn (played by Glover), who becomes a manager to his cousin and rapper, Alfred, a.k.a. Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry). He wants to primarily reconnect with (and, ahem, earn the respect of) his ex-girlfriend, Van (Zazie Beetz). Lakeith Stanfield plays Paper Boi’s eccentric right-hand man, Darius.
During the Television Critics Association’s (TCA) Atlanta panel on August 2, Glover told reporters that season four is the most grounded one yet. “It explores people more than we have before because I feel like right now we are kind of living in a time where you just don’t give people the benefit of the doubt,” he said. “We ended up being a show about people whereas early on it was about ‘Do people matter?”
The trailer shows that the central crew returns to their titular hometown after their European adventures in season three. Naturally, this brings about new challenges as Earn and Van try to figure out where they stand romantically while Alfred makes moves in his career.