In Atlanta’s fourth-season premiere, Van gets lost. She and Earn get separated, and she’s left to fend for herself. It’s a recurring situation for Van given that Atlanta has been abandoning this character for more than a season now, writes roxana_hadadi
In “Helen,” Earn is shocked when someone mistakes him for a white person in blackface, and he ultimately puts on a mask to disappear into the crowd. Van, meanwhile, is described more than once as “Lottie’s mom” and “Earn’s girl,” and though she explains herself as “sort of in between things right now” professionally, she bristles at those boundaries: “That’s not all that I’m gonna be for the rest of my life, Lottie’s mom.” In the world of, though, it is.
Three seasons in, shouldn’t the series care more about this character — who is central to its marketing and was a significant member of the cast — than shrugging off superficial chitchat? Shouldn’t it place us alongside Van as she tries to find her own way, as it does with Earn, Al, and Darius, rather than use her solely for disruption or shock value? Beetz does well in a scene that asks for fragility and frivolousness as she admits, “I’m just different,” to a stranger, then leaves the...
Following the Alfred-centric “New Jazz” and the stand-alone episodes “Trini 2 De Bone” and “Rich Wigga, Poor Wigga,” the season-three finale, “,” written by Robinson and directed by Donald Glover, seems intended as appeasement. Neither Earn, Al, or Darius appears in this episode, which is set in Paris and introduces Candice , an old friend of Van’s from their stripping days who is shocked to recognize her in a local corner store.
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