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back again breaking down this third season of atlanta episode 7 titled trendy to the bone
we got some flavor we got some soul we got some culture and we got a funeral to discuss
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all and speaking of moments that didn't work i'm just kind of curious as far as this is our seventh
episode and there's a pattern here this is our third solo episode and what i mean by solo it's
the third episode without our main cast episode one four and seven where does episode seven
rank amongst the other two solo episodes and just as a whole where does the seventh episode ring for
you as an entire season let's have that discussion in the comments full spoilers ahead as we break it
all down we open the episode with meeting one of our main characters who goes by the name of miles
we see him doing his morning exercise listed in the hip hop which i found it really you know
not to judge but i would never imagine based on his characteristic that he would be someone that
listens to hip-hop but i will say between him and his wife and let me know how you all feel about
this miles seem to be more receptive to culture than she was let me know how you all felt about
that but going into the house now we see that uh sylvia hasn't arrived and we learned that sylvia
is a sebastian's babysitter and sebastian hasn't touched his breakfast yet because as he puts it
it's a little bland this egg benedict which i am not an egg fan so i definitely understand
it but if you put some some flavor on it maybe i'll give it a bite or two as he says well dad
you know maybe if you go ahead and put sylvia's spicy curry mango on there i'll go ahead and give
it a bite or two which you kind of get very early on that sylvia was very heavily involved in his
life and gave him some culture some much-needed culture in his life because his parents aren't
as as flavorful to say the least but getting into it here they do find out unfortunately that sylvia
has passed on and they have to kind of figure out okay how do we go about telling our son about
death and particularly about losing someone very close to them but speaking of sylvia we can go
ahead and have that that conversation now there's definitely sylvia was in this episode like she was
a ghost she was in in several moments that we'll talk about as the door is knocked on and there's
a mysterious package that i have a theory about a little bit later but let's just go ahead and say
her ghost was very present in this episode but getting back into it let me know if i'm looking
too much into this here it wasn't explicitly said and i don't want to say they were bad parents but
there were subtle cues saying that they weren't the most attentive parents now one example of that
as we see the wife on the con on the conversation on the facetime you know she talks about when
she dropped off her son which by the way again you see just little things of sylvia was very
you know sebastian loves sylvia walking her walking him to classes that and the other but
she says to her husband the teacher mentioned that you know the parents you know her the husband and
the wife did not attend the photo day which we'll get into my thoughts on that photo a little bit
later but again that was just a a subtle cue that they're not as attentive as they think they are
like they think they're there by giving him you know black culture uh having him learn mandarin
but they're not present enough to really implement their own traditions and their own culture on
their son i think that was something that was very subtly hinted at in this episode let me know
your thoughts on all that as we get back into it time to have that conversation which speaking of
conversation i definitely have some questions i want to post you all we see that they're
tiptoeing around how to talk about death and when he brings up the dogs she was a strip
strip no we're not going that route miles but you know they ultimately miles this flat out says she
died and we see little sebastian say well can she come back to say goodbye which i think she
does but in this episode but the conversation i want to have with you all is when it comes to
death now this question i do want to i want to ask everyone but in particularly for my
parents out there i'm not a parent when is the appropriate time for you and there's no wrong
answers here obviously but when do you think is the right time to have that conversation with your
with your child in regards to what it means to die and what death means and the second question
i have and this is for open to anyone when how do you all feel and not to get too personal but
how do you all feel about death in regards to obviously as i mentioned in this episode
in america and in many places in the world death is looked at as a view of sadness depression and
just you know upset you lose someone close to you but then in other cultures not saying that
they're not as sympathetic but other cultures they celebrate death right they celebrate the life of
the person that has passed so i'm just curious i kind of fall in the middle of that like of course
i'm sad when i lose someone i lost someone very important to me a couple years ago and i'm still
not recovering from that if i'm being honest but you know as i've gotten older
i've learned to kind of appreciate life and death in the beauty of death and life and the circle
of life and all that stuff but again just kind of curious one for my parents and to anyone out there
one do you think is a good good age to tell your kids and younger generations about death and then
how do you all perceive death just kind of curious and this is why i love this show because you can
talk about anything with this show and that's the conversation i want to have with you all but miles
wants to honor his son's wishes he wants to bring sebastian to the funeral and again the wife is not
too receptive to it but ultimately they do decide to take him to this funeral and right off the bat
again speaking of the subtlety in regards to how important sylvia was to just this young man's life
he can't go to bed which again he scared the hell out of his mom when they were talking about again
subtle cues i would like sebastian to maybe learn mandarin if he wants to be in the business and she
you know he scares her he says he's afraid we see that she you know tries to get him to bed and very
again sylvia was very heavily involved in his life rubbing his back you know singing some sweet tnt
and she's like i don't know that song honey and he she doesn't even know he's like mama he ain't
doing it right again sylvia was very i thought that was so funny sylvia was very heavily involved
there but time to go to the actual funeral we see them driving up there they meet uh sylvia's
daughter as she calls him little curry mouth boy and again little sebastian knew more he was more
on game than his parents as the the people at the funeral calling him a roach and you know he talks
about how that means that you're kind of unwelcome or someone that's not like necessarily fitting in
in the party little sebastian was on it and we gonna talk about yes lord amen little sebastian
had me dying in this episode but we i don't know if you all caught this little subtle talk
about subtleties there was an easter egg there and i'm very interested i might be looking way
too much into this easter egg when we see miles parking his car with young who by the way reggie
looked no older than 13 years old hi reggie hey reggie can you make sure you don't reggie
i thought that was hilarious but on the backdrop i don't know if you all saw it there were paper boy
poster tour posters and it said coming home tour october 31st terminal 5 which is a venue in new
york city that makes me wonder okay was is it is i wonder if that's the easter egg for this season
like we're going to see them come back to the us but in the season or that's like a cue for season
four they're going to be coming back to the u.s let me know if you all caught that easter egg and
timing wise is that to be seen in this season or do you think that they're gonna make their
coming home tour next season just kind of curious your thoughts on that cool little easter egg but
this is where things got very funny for me as we are now in the funeral we meet devon uh who is uh
a little leagues coach he is a spiritual therapist but more importantly this is the big one here
he's a tv installer he's trying to you know sell himself and you know find a replacement
for their young kid i thought that that was so damn funny because there there's a theme in this
funeral and i've been to quite a few feelings more so when i was a kid i've been to a future
in a while which is a good thing uh but there is a time and a place and there were many times
at this place that was just not the right time to be having these conversations that being one
of them but then they meet curtis aka i think is a nod at future bash like i think that was
bash in the future because that is clearly a white man but he has a very thick accent as he was also
babysitted by sylvia again i thought that was so funny because i saw that was clearly white man
that was a future of young bash that's what bass is going to look like if he would have continued
to be babysitted by sylvia which isn't a bad thing but again i just found that to be very funny that
we meet curtis aka future badge and again just a little subtle here this is where i was just
dying laughing with little sebastian when they get to praying and he's just like yes lord
amen and the parents looking at like who whose kid is this that little boy has some soul to him
thanks to sylvia it is time to get into another funny moment as sylvia used to be we get a little
backstory she used to be a belly dancer and and and this i am so confused by this scene
we see miles and obviously they're at the funeral he gets an airdrop by someone by the name of gooch
lickman and again i wasn't clear of what that photo was but i'm very aware what a gooch is for
you all that don't know uh you know from the kids out there this is explicit so you've been warned
what a gooch is you can look it up a gooch is the spot on a male between his balls and his
[ __ ] and and it's a sensitive spot with some men and you know to each your own it's not my cup of
tea but some people like to be you know um uh uh uh felt up in that moment uh but i was just very
curious i'm like who in the hell sent him that and what does that mean i was kind of lost on that
let me know how you all interpreted it from uh gooch lickman which was just so random but let's
talk about it but moving on we get back into the conversation and i don't know if you all noticed
one of her daughters i think her name was princess i used to have a friend uh that i went to high
school with he was from trinidad and his mom used to always make that sound when she was like mad at
him i always looked at when she was like when they were talking about she used to go to trinidad and
send her family money and princess clearly didn't feel that same way because she was and i like i
never asked him what that meant i just always assumed that was like the literal uh noise from
your mouth from like rolling your eyes or like please type a moment so you know that princess
wasn't i wouldn't say she wasn't you know the uh the happiest person but she definitely had some
beef with her mama as we cut to them remembering sylvia with julia edwards who's a famous uh dancer
from trinidad and we see that they're doing this inspired dance and again sebastian was like yay
so excited to see this ritual taking place and this is where princess again she wasn't
having it she goes up on the mic again like i mentioned there's a time there's a place she
didn't care where they were at she wanted to let everyone know how she felt about her mom and the
sacrifices which is something that i found to be a very interesting conversation about how certain
people in this episode in particular sylvia used to take care of all these kids which seems to be
again based on the kids that we saw sebastian was white curtis is white i wonder if she only babysit
white kids to give them some culture to kind of help out the world to give white people a little
bit more culture again kind of joking but really not uh so i'm very intrigued on that conversation
because she's like mama you know the son's like mama just did that to put food on our table
to support us and obviously princess didn't feel that way she felt like the mom was abandoning them
and i've been again to my fair share of funerals when i was younger i never got it to that extent
like a medea's funeral when people are banging on the you know the casket but i've seen the passing
outs and i've seen the tears and i've seen the yelling and i've seen a couple fights but not to
the extent of this particular scene but everything is now popping off we got people fighting in the
funeral we got one older woman talking about take me with you i've seen that a few times
not going to the castle but those words being self out loud and this is where we see curtis
world star uh you know because they're fighting and we see devin talking about a young young boy
which scared the white people and the young man you know bad says yes that i am scared but it's
a very sentimental moment here as he says you know this is our sad this is again you can't
tell anyone how to grieve how to process death and that was their way of being sad which goes back to
that conversation we had a little bit earlier but notice how miles again hip-hop and taking in some
culture as they're driving home singing sweet and titty and the wife just like rolling her eyes but
wrapping it all up here we see that bash says goodnight to his mom but he also says goodnight to
sylvia and i ain't gonna lie i was looking at that pillow that pillow was moving she was definitely
there in that chair let me know your thoughts on that but then we end with them talking about
was it the right thing to take him to the funeral which again brings me to that question about when
is the right time to have that conversation when is the right time to put younger kids
into you know the conversation about death as miles as you know wants to be a steel band
artist as he grows up but it goes back into them being kind of absent and them not having their
own kind of culture and traditions in place and they're just kind of clueless they're allowing
other people to raise their children but wrapping up this is the interesting moment here very late
at night there's banging at the door miles goes to it it's that same package that sylvia was supposed
to be getting in her house he finally opens it and it's a bunch of photos of sylvia and sebastian in
the last photo is kind of like a like i said that type of noise that was the type of face of sylvia
and the bass was giving that photo and i kind of took that in and as we end with sweet tt which
is the banger of a song you know uh trinity to the bone that is a fire song i used to listen
to that a lot uh growing up back in the day but anyway this goes back to the conversation now
remember earlier in episode when they didn't go to his uh photo shoot at school and again going
back to them being non-attentive i thought that she was giving the photos and essentially saying
without explicitly saying do better be better be be better parents be present in their life which
is funny because if you look at princess she feel like she wasn't present in her life so it's kind
of a hypocrisy going on with sylvia but neither her there she is pretty much saying just be
more present be in your son's life because there's little moments like this that can shape them right
and again she was very influential in his culture and his knowing being peeped up
on game having some flavor on his food knowing different cultures it makes you a more rounded
a well-rounded individual which also just kind of goes to uh going back to the conversation when
bash axe if he could say goodbye to her that was her ghost saying goodbye to him she wanted to give
him those photos because it did mean something to him and she meant something to him so that was
like her way of saying goodbye going to the whole ghost theory of this episode but overall i found
it to be very interesting that again this episode was very heavily focused on what cultures can do
when you're cultured at a young age how again i feel like we saw this episode they're like you
know maybe we should teach some mandarin maybe we should have a more a younger person being
brought of our kids life it's just like they're putting all this culture on them but they're not
teaching him culture they're just throwing an atom and that's again i think something i took away
from this episode as well as just shielding your younger generation from things like death you know
as well as just showing you when you surround yourself with different cultures which i've
always been an advocate of and i always try to learn something new every single day of my life
especially the older i get when your talk culture at a young age it really shapes you for the better
in my opinion not everyone feels that way but i think when you're shown different cultures and
you're around different cultures it just makes you a more a more round well-rounded individual and
you're just more receptive to just being more open to just many different walks of life so
overall i really enjoyed this episode i had a fun time at that funeral i think it does pose
a lot of questions due to culture and lack of culture what it can do when you throw culture at
someone when you don't parent your child when you shield your child and then of course yes lord yes
amen i had a fun sign winner but hey those are my thoughts on the seventh episode let me know
yours again your pros your cons your thoughts your theories on the ghost idea of this episode
as well as do we speculate that paperboy al you know earn van and darius will be making their
way back home by the end of the season or by season four let's discuss that in the comments
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