We’re not a full month into summer yet, which means there’s still beaucoup time to anoint the Song of the Summer, a title only music industry people seem to care about. To perhaps challenge Drake’s “Nice for What” (the current No. 1 song in the country) and Cardi B’s “I Like It,” Childish Gambino / Donald Glover has a…
Have you ever worked in an office and wrestled with the following question: I’d like to ask out my subordinate on a date, but I don’t know if i should? If so, then boy: this PSA voiced by Donald Glover and directed by Rashida Jones from Time’s Up is about to clear a whoooole bunch of stuff up for you!
Good news for Zazie Beetz fans: Season 3 of Atlanta will likely feature more stories specifically focused around women.
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If Donald Glover’s “This Is America” music video is a reflection of America’s perennial terrors—racism and violence—then the sophomore season of his hit FX series, Atlanta, is a reflection of black people trying to survive it. This season, refashioned as Atlanta Robbin’ Season, opened with an armed robbery at a fast…
Donald Glover stopped in on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Wednesday night to delight us all, but especially to delight this Girl Scout who used his song “Redbone” to sell Tagalongs.
Donald Glover’s FX series Atlanta spent much of its Season 1 narrative charting the slow pursuit of happiness, through the conduit of rap. In its second season, a slight shift affords its lead character, Earn (Glover), rare possession of physical money. He ends up, of course, at the strip club, where his cousin—the…
In a profile for The New Yorker, Donald Glover talks about some of the strange dealings he’s had with clueless executives while navigating the very white space of television.
You might remember last year when Adele, crying and cradling her Grammy for Album of the Year at the end of the night, tearfully told audiences that Beyoncé actually deserved the award.
The cast of the 2019 live-action Lion King film, which has surfaced in bits and whispers over the past few months, was finally made whole Wednesday night.
Another year, another Emmy Awards ceremony in the books—and what a mixed bag it was, veering from Sean Spicer to a 9 to 5 reunion. There were some very good victories, for instance Lena Waithe making history as the first black woman to win an Emmy for comedy writing and Ann Dowd finally picking up one of the…
Donald Glover’s Golden Globe-winning Atlanta, for my money, was the funniest and driest comedy on TV in 2016. It had heart, it probed into its characters’ interiors with uncommon insight, it sprinkled about surreal touches. (“It’s free chicken sandwich day.”) Most of its 10 episodes clocked in around 22 minutes, which…
The recognition for Atlanta at this year’s Golden Globes is keeping many of us alive while watching La La Land predictably and dishearteningly win a lot of awards. Here’s Donald Glover in a chocolate suit accepting his award for Best Actor in a Television Series, Comedy or Musical, after Atlanta won earlier in the…
On Wednesday night’s Tonight Show, Childish Gambino/Donald Glover stood shirtless in the shadows—attempting a heavily Prince and D’Angelo inspired red-lit setup—to perform his funk slow jam “Redbone,” a standout track from his album Awaken My Love. The vocals fall into labored territory at points, giving the…
In its first season, the finale of which aired on Tuesday, Atlanta effectively solidified itself as an offbeat show about black people that dares to experiment in surreality. That subtle tone begins with its all-black writing staff, and their ability to essentially write about us by first writing about themselves.…
Donald Glover, who hasn’t been doing much press since the premiere of his stellar new FX series Atlanta, recently popped into The Ellen Show and discussed the legendary role he just landed in the next Star Wars.
Tuesday night’s Atlanta took a trip into the wonderful world of surreality with an episode-long parody of BET, done via the fictional “Black American Network.” As the show went about deconstructing stereotypes and hypocrisies, complete with a ridiculous news debate show and fake commercials aimed at black viewers, it…
Kim Kardashian has been silent in the wake of her robbery last week but the media hasn’t been able to shut their yaps, spinning yarns about an event we all know little to nothing about. MediaTakeOut, a dirty lil’ gossip site, is one of the worst perpetrators, going so far as to posit that she lied about the whole…
In today’s Tweet Beat, Jada Pinkett Smith got a great gift, Donald Glover flexes and Britney Spears misses that place.
Atlanta’s mysterious, beautiful trailers paid off. Lots of people wanted to know a little bit more about what this show even was other than slow pans across the landscape.
