TINY TOON ADVENTURES Was The Inspiration Behind Donald Glover's ATLANTA Season 2
First of all, if you haven't watched Atlanta Season 1 yet... why!? The show is amazingly good! It's such a smartly written and fun series with great characters. If you already are on board, we've got some information for you regarding the upcoming second season that I think you're going to like.
During the recent Television Critics Association press tour, Donald Glover, Stephen Glover, and some of the other members of the cast and crew showed up to talk about what is coming.
It was revealed that the next season is set during the holiday season. right before Christmas and New Years. It's at the time that there is an uptick of crime in the city. Glover explains:
"People have to get Christmas gifts so it’s a time where robbery will go. You might get your package stolen from the front porch," he explained, adding that his neighbor got her car stolen out of the driveway when they were shooting the second season. "It’s just a very tense and desperate time."
He went on to explain the reason why they wanted to make this the backdrop of the new season, saying:
"Our characters are going through insane, desperate transitions so Robbin' Season is kind of a metaphor for all of our characters."
The season will continue the journey of manager Earn Marks (Glover) as he tries to get his cousin Alfred Miles' (Brian Tyree Henry) rap career off the ground. It's then revealed that this next chapter of the story was heavily influenced by the classic 90s cartoon series Tiny Toon Adventures, which I thought was awesome!
"We just went into this like, ‘Why are we going to do season 2? Everybody does season 2!’ And in the writers room, we talked a lot about How I Spent My Summer Vacation by Tiny Toons — which was a show we all really liked — and that was kind of the inspiration for season 2.
Glover went on to say that all of the writers were fans of Tiny Toons, so I guess they just went for it! Stephen went on to explain how the episodes were broken up into several episodes and that the viewers could watch them all together as if they were a movie or separately in installments.
"They would play them during the summer together, and we kind of took that idea — a whole story but being told in a bunch of different parts. You enjoy them more when they’re all together but you can also enjoy them in little bits."
It's kinda cool to see that these guys found inspiration from a series like Tiny Toons Adventures, which is a show a lot of us enjoyed when we were growing up. One place that they didn't look for inspiration was Season 1 of the show. Donald explained:
"We didn’t look back at season 1 for inspiration as much because I feel like if you do that as any sort of producer, you tend to be risk-averse, which I really think is bad for art. We didn’t look back and think, ‘What are the things that will make people happy?’ We really just tried to beat ourselves and always just kept trying to do something that was different from the first season."
Are you excited about Atlanta Season 2!? After hearing this, I can't wait to see how it turns out!
Source: THR