"Sinterklaas Is Coming to Town" is the second episode of the third season of Atlanta. It is the twenty-third episode of the series overall. It was released on March 24, 2022 on FX.[1]
Premise[]
I think everybody knows blackface ain’t cool anymore, we get it. They be trying too hard to go viral.
Plot[]
Earn wakes up in a hotel room next to a woman. He goes to the bathroom but his phone goes off with several messages indicating that he must board a plane to Amsterdam from Copenhagen where he is at the moment. Earn quickly packs his stuff and leaves. He calls Darius, who tells him that Alfred has been in jail. He instructs Darius to pick up Van, who is also coming to Amsterdam.
As Darius picks up Van, Earn barely makes it to Amsterdam, preparing for a concert for which Alfred must perform. He gets the venue owner, Dirk, to give him money to bail Alfred out of jail but finds that he left his laptop in Helsinki. Alfred is dismayed at being released, as he was enjoying a luxurous treatment by the guards. As they leave, they notice a baby painted in blackface accompanying a man costumed as Sinterklaas, acting as the Zwarte Piet.
While visiting a thrift store, Van and Darius find an address in a jacket and decide to follow the address. They arrive at a living funeral service for a man whom Darius believes may be Tupac Shakur. Van is informed that the man is nearing death, result of a terminal illness. Van is allowed to talk to the man. Suddenly, the people attending activate a button that suffocates the man to death, shocking her. Earn and Alfred return to the hotel, with Alfred expressing disgust at some employees wearing blackface. At his hotel room, Alfred remembers that he went to the bed with two women but they started an argument, which culminated with the room destroyed and him getting arrested.
That night, Earn prepares Alfred for the concert, when Alfred states he won't perform: the crowd mostly consists of people in blackface. Earn tells Dirk that Alfred won't perform for health issues but Dirk gets mad at him, telling him that he will "destroy" him. He then pursues Earn and mistakes a man in blackface as Earn and attacks him while Earn looks on nearby. He goes back to the hotel room, running into Van in the hallway. They have a brief conversation before entering their rooms. An exhausted Earn falls in the bed, until he notes that his phone is getting messages from Alfred, who wants food.
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