{"id":96549,"date":"2022-10-14T04:16:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T04:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/atlanta-season-4-episode-6-crank-dat-killer-recap\/"},"modified":"2022-10-14T04:16:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T04:16:11","slug":"atlanta-season-4-episode-6-crank-dat-killer-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/atlanta-season-4-episode-6-crank-dat-killer-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta season 4, episode 6, “Crank Dat Killer” recap"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week marks the halfway point of Atlanta<\/em>‘s final season, and the show has built a rhythm with its episodes. Unlike the third season, which switched between interstitial tales and the main quartet’s European adventures, the fourth has more back-to-basics installations. The new episode balance some pretty heavy themes on life progression and the value of stardom in between Earn and the crew’s day-to-day life. After last week’s excellent mind trip, \u201cCrank Dat Killer\u201d is a more down-to-earth plot that still provides a bit of commentary on Black life, while delivering the belly laughs. (There will be full-on laughter screams while watching several scenes.)<\/p>\n

The titular serial killer is introduced in the first scene, where we learn (courtesy of Lipstick Alley) that someone’s going around killing people who participated in one of the first viral trends to hit YouTube. For anyone else who felt extremely washed up remembering \u201cCrank Dat,\u201d it came out in May 2007, the same month as that \u201cCharlie bit my finger<\/span>\u201d video. The idea that a person’s sad dance cover from 15 years ago\u2014which only got 25 views and a dislike somehow\u2014could lead to their death is made for an audience who remembers a time before Facebook and Snapchat took over our lives (and even those references are already dated).<\/p>\n

The \u201cCrank Dat\u201d plot is also the less ridiculous of the episode’s two storylines, mostly because writer Stephen Glover leans into the slightly-pathetic nature from the second we see Al’s grainy clip. (Even Darius doesn’t like it.) Glover and Hiro Murai, who returns to direct after the excellent \u201cLight Skinned-ed,\u201d turn up the tension slowly, with the skull comment and the news making it to Twitter. They even got Soulja Boy himself to warn Al to get out of town, as the creator packs up his own house. Al gets so shaken, he even goes to Greenbriar Mall, where he filmed the video (the episode is filmed at the actual mall).<\/p>\n