The teaser trailer for Atlanta‘s new season dropped during the Golden Globes Sunday night, somewhere in between a brilliant speech from Oprah and a Tommy Wiseau appearance—giving us even more reason to be excited for the show’s upcoming March premiere.
The minute-long teaser is just a single, sustained panning shot as Donald Glover and the show’s stars pose in diners, driveways, and a club full of levitating strippers. There’s also an alligator in there somewhere, but sadly no sign of the “VERY TAN caucasians” Glover was searching for to play “Floridians.”
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The whole thing is soundtracked by Sonder’s “Too Fast” and is lit like Caravaggio was the DP. The teaser doesn’t seem to give us a look at any actual footage from season two, but the minute-long clip perfectly captures Atlanta‘s strange, beautiful, and surreal tone.
It’s only fitting that FX decided to premiere the season two teaser during the 2018 Golden Globes since the first season of Atlanta took home a pair of awards at last year’s ceremony. But ultimately, the clip would be just as exciting if it was dumped on YouTube one day without any fanfare—it’s just good to know we’ll be getting more Atlanta soon.
The first episode of season two, called Atlanta: Robbin’ Season, drops March 1 and the show’s creators have promised that the new season will have a more cohesive, season-long arc, Vulture reports, inspired by, uh, the 1992 cartoon Tiny Toons: How I Spent My Summer Vacation.
“Tiny Toons Summer Vacation was broken up into a bunch of episodes, but if you watched them all together they were a movie,” co-creator Stephen Glover said at a panel last week. “We took that idea. It’s a whole story, but told in a bunch of little parts.”
Sunday’s new trailer doesn’t exactly give off the Tiny Toons vibe, what with all the chiaroscuro and lack of talking animals, but maybe season two will end with Earn enrolling at Acme Looniversity or something. We’ll have to wait until March to see.
