Most reviews of Atlanta use words like surrealist, absurdist, random, or just plain weird to describe its particular style. Donald Glover himself has said, “I just wanted to make Twin Peaks with rappers.”
Atlanta is such smart and ambitious comedy with a large proportion of drama that grabs large steps seemingly not concerned about the viewers, but in fact those who have decided to accept it are fully entrenched in the surreal reality
If the first season, Atlanta (FX) had a structure that was very loosely based on the rise of Paper Boi and the emotional-bond relationship of Earn and Vanessa, and now in the second season the plot is not important even more. It seems that Glover cares more about creating really great scenes than advancing the plot, and this is really working! It's confident, original and hilarious.
Atlanta is playing with many different themes but in such subtle and innovative way. Chaos and dispersion of daily life is transferred in series and increased to the level of magical realism. Humor is more ominous and darker, even more tragic than in the first season, and brutality with which the series is dealing with it's characters achieve tragicomic level.
The storytelling in “Atlanta” is dreamlike, which is another way of saying that it’s unusually realistic. As in life, weird or comical developments don’t announce themselves before they happen: They just start happening, and your consciousness has to catch up. The off-balance feeling this creates is the buzz of watching “Atlanta.”
The second season is dubbed ''Robin season'' referring to an actual time period in the city right before the holidays, when people have more gifts arriving on porches and presumably more cash in their wallets.
But as Paper Boi became more famous and Earn, begins to reap the rewards of his blossoming success, things aren't really that different. Fame doesn’t change the fact that they’re still black and poor.
As Variety wrote ''Atlanta” isn’t a show, it’s a state of mind.