![]() Then, they card him when he offers his debit card. Earn tries paying for movie tickets at a bougie theater with a $100 bill, and the cashier doesn’t accept it. When some money makes its way to Van’s house, Earn figures he’ll take that theory on a test-drive: He decides that, this weekend, he and Van are gonna buy the town, claiming, with a check in hand, that “the stunters have become the stunted.” ![]() But even after Al’s protests (“Welcome to Atlanta - all you need is some money”), Earn still wishes that he could be that guy. Talking to Al afterward, Earn says that it must be great to have a rapper’s instant street cred (it isn’t), because Earn’s only ever been stunted on. He starts “Money Bag Shawty” in a pothole, beginning with a dressing down by a random waiter. The narrative we do find ourselves with is Earn’s ongoing odyssey. We only watch Van within the context of a disastrous night out with Earn.īut, again, we’re only on the third episode of the season. Yeah, Van’s hanging out with the guys now, and this is a happy reintroduction, but where has she been? What’s happened since we saw her last? Has her job situation changed? And her romantic prospects? We don’t have any of that, at least not yet. That’s my issue with this episode, as with this series so far: We rarely get to see her on her own. Van is Atlanta’s most elusive character, which is to say that she’s the least autonomous. She’s raising a child mostly on her own, although we don’t catch wind of the kid in “Money Bag Shawty.” She’s vaguely conscious of where she’d like to end up, which is a lot more than any of the show’s male characters can say, but she isn’t disillusioned by the fact that she may not find herself there, or that her current situation might be as good as it gets. But Van is loads more nebulous: She’s still with Earn, sort of, except for the times when she’s not. Al’s situation as a dude coming to terms with his rapidly changing life is honed with every episode. Earn, we can wrap our heads around: He’s searching for himself in a new-old environment. ![]() Partly because it’s her first appearance in Robbin’ Season, but partly because, Darius aside, she’s the show’s most enigmatic character. Honestly, this entire recap could be all about Van.
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