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Spoilers follow for The Most Atlanta, the fourth-season premiere ofAtlanta.
InAtlantas fourth-season premiere, Zazie Beetzs Van gets lost.
People they once dated keep tracking them down with vacantly casual greetings of Long time, no see!
The garage grows darker and darker.
Van and Earn get separated, and shes left to fend for herself.
Its a recurring situation for Van given thatAtlantahas been abandoning this character for more than a season now.
Atlantahas shown it can transcend genre by dabbling in horror with Teddy Perkins and Three Slaps.
It can create elaborate parables, as in Trini 2 De Bone and Rich Wigga, Poor Wigga.
She remains nebulous about her ambition and unclear in her desires and dislikes.
She continues to represent Earns own fears (can he become successful enough to provide for his daughter financially?
Can he maintain a stable personal life while working in such an unpredictable industry?
), rather than existing as a character outside of his domestic concerns.
Season three was simultaneouslyAtlantas most daring and most vague, and those two drives frustratingly combined in Vans characterization.
In the world ofAtlanta, though, it is.
Van, meanwhile, remains fuzzy around the edges, decorated with nonspecific details.
Darius asks how Lottie is doing but doesnt ask about her.
But once again,Atlantalets her interiority drop.
Youre so in your head.
I think you oughta live in the moment more.
In season fours opener, The Most Atlanta, the events of Tarrare are never mentioned.
Who knows if they even happened?
Earn may never let Van become Kenya, butAtlantaalready has.
Tarrare proved Beetz can sink her teeth into a meaty story.Atlantashould give her one.
