Helen
- Episode aired Mar 22, 2018
- TV-MA
- 25m
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
2.8K
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Earn discovers just how weird white people can be when he accompanies Van to a traditional German festival she frequented as a kid.Earn discovers just how weird white people can be when he accompanies Van to a traditional German festival she frequented as a kid.Earn discovers just how weird white people can be when he accompanies Van to a traditional German festival she frequented as a kid.
Kristina Arjona
- Random Girl
- (as Kristina Adler)
Gwen Hughes
- Polka Musician
- (uncredited)
Ashley Geanett Priest
- Honeymooner
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaZazie Beetz is of German descent in real life. Her father is German and the actress was born in Berlin, Germany. She is also fluent in German as depicted in this episode.
- GoofsSeveral subtitles for the German segments are wrong or are missing a good amount of content. When Ben says "I think love it what you make of it. It's not up to him to define it to you. You should start a relationship with yourself, if you really want to learn to love someone." he actually says "I think love can be everything and nothing, it depends on what you make of it. It doesn't depend on him either, except if you love yourself, then it makes you stronger. You should learn to love yourself first, if you really want to let someone in."
- Crazy credits"Schnappviecher" is misspelled as "Schanppviecher"
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards (2018)
Featured review
The "weak" episode in this series.
While the rest of Atlanta is an entertaining black sitcom, this episode feels slightly out of place. While the need to push the subtle racism experienced by a black community is part of what makes Atlanta great, some instances in this episode (like a white Bavarian dressed American mistaking Daniel Glover for a minstrel) seem like the show was actually reaching with unrealistic acts of subtle racism.
Other small details, like Fasnacht actually being a predominantly Swiss form of carnival (see: Basel Fasnacht) or masks and costumes used in Fasnacht having a specific aesthetic (with a cultural significance) that a "scream mask" doesn't really cover, makes the whole episode feel off somehow.
The evening feels like an amalgamation of European folk law that made me feel like I was watching "white face".
As this episode is all about how out of place the protagonist feels, I too felt out of place in this episode unsure of what story was trying to be told which might have been the intention but it didn't pay off.
Other small details, like Fasnacht actually being a predominantly Swiss form of carnival (see: Basel Fasnacht) or masks and costumes used in Fasnacht having a specific aesthetic (with a cultural significance) that a "scream mask" doesn't really cover, makes the whole episode feel off somehow.
The evening feels like an amalgamation of European folk law that made me feel like I was watching "white face".
As this episode is all about how out of place the protagonist feels, I too felt out of place in this episode unsure of what story was trying to be told which might have been the intention but it didn't pay off.
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- Wrighthead
- Apr 22, 2018
Details
- Runtime25 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1
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