Atlanta season 4 will arrive in Fall 2022 and will mark the last go around for the acclaimed FX series. Donald Glover’s show about the travails of music manager Earn Marks (Glover) and Atlanta rapper Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry) debuted in 2016.
It of course did not take long for the genre-bending Atlanta to begin garnering huge amounts of critical acclaim. Season 1 picked up an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Comedy Series and won Glover awards for both Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for the groundbreaking episode “B.A.N.”. Season 2 then upped the ante on its convention-defying ways with the episode “Teddy Perkins,” a memorable outing featuring Glover burying himself in prosthetic make-up to play a reclusive music figure inspired by Michael Jackson. Unfortunately for fans Glover and company have kept an irregular production schedule over the years, meaning only two seasons of Atlanta have been delivered in six years.
But thankfully things have picked up when it comes to Atlanta’s previously unreliable release schedule. In fact, fans are set to receive a veritable cornucopia of Atlanta as seasons 3 and 4 shot back-to-back. Season 3 was already revealed to be releasing on March 24, 2022, and now FX chief John Landgraf has confirmed (via Variety) that season 4 will quickly follow, being slated for Fall of 2022. Landgraf also said at FX’s TCA day that season 4 will follow the same release pattern as season 3, with episodes arriving for streaming on Hulu a day after their linear release on FX. Landgraf also clarified the show’s future by confirming that season 4 will be its last.
No details have yet been revealed about what will go down in the fourth and now-final season of Atlanta. There have however been some revelations about season 3, including news that the season takes place in Europe as Paper Boi, Earn and company embark upon a European tour. And in case fans had any doubts that this would continue being a quirky and rule-breaking show, a recent Atlanta season 3 trailer was made bizarrely in the style of a retro TV commercial.
Quirky and rule-breaking are of course two things fans of Atlanta have come to expect over the show’s two-season run and it’s a fair bet things will not get any more normal as the series heads to the finish line. After years of uncertainty about more episodes even arriving, it’s no doubt a relief to those fans to now know exactly how much Atlanta they can expect in the future and how long they will have to wait. It’s sad though to realize that one of the most interesting and unpredictable shows on TV will soon be ending its uniquely round-about run.
