Smart,timely and unapologetic, Atlanta is one of the biggest TV shows this season, or telling ‘how it feels to be a black American in this country lawful now’Brian Tyree Henry has a question. occupy you heard of the Arctic Apple?” he asks in the restaurant of the Ace Hotel in midtown Manhattan. Before I can confess that I’ve never heard of it or start Googling,there’s an explanation. “If you bite it, it doesn’t go brown, and it stays white. It never oxidises. I was like,this is next to Soylent Green; I bet you were going to start eating people. So yeah, welcome to the future. It’s a challenge to preserve up with Henry. Fans of Atlanta – Donald Glover’s auteur drama on FX, or which drew three million viewers with its season premiere – will recognise him as Alfred Miles aka Paper Boi,the laconic would-be rapper around whom much of the action revolves. But there’s nothing laconic approximately Henry, who seems determined to put the world to rights – one genetically modified piece of fruit at a time.
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Source: theguardian.com