but who are these types of episodes for??? a story of a black nanny who treated the white kids she worked for more like her children than her own kids?? How white privileged parents are cluesless about the most basic things when it come to family?? Same thing for the reparations episode..these episodes may be meaningful to nonblacks but to me their just filler.
I feel like episodes like that take the pressure off of coming up with stuff for the main characters mainly because between the pandemic and rising career prospects, those actors are busy with other projects so they all can only be there part time.
I would have liked to have seen the innerworkings of Paperboi's career...him in the studio or preparing for a concert in a more wonky way..(soundchecks, concert rider stuff personal to him etc) and considering Glover is a rapper and musician you would have thought he would have given a better peek at BTS inside baseball stuff like that. Allowing us to see a creator be creative! IS Paperboi a real artist or just a lucky bumblefuck? In the episode where his cellphone is stolen..maybe if we saw him working out that new song at some earlier point then the speech where he tells the kid that he found his voice again would resonate with us because we saw that happen, rather than just take his word for it. I get the character is purposefully left vague as a statement to the vapid-ness of pop music but to me that just leaves a hole that should be filled with something storywise.
But the other side episodes are just filler to me because I know this stuff already.
