ATLANTA

After being announced nearly three years ago, FX has finally given us a few glimpses of Donald Glover's highly anticipated television show, 'Atlanta.' Though none of the promos have included any dialogue fans are still extremely excited and, for the most part, already understand the direction Glover wants to take the series. At the beginning of the year Glover told the attendees of the Television Critics Association tour that “The tone is everything... I just wanted to make ‘Twin Peaks’ with rappers." For people that do not know, 'Twin Peaks' was a television series,that debuted in the early 90's, about FBI agent Dale Cooper traveling to a small town to solve a murder. The show was very surreal and proves the point that not everything is as it seems. Just from watching the latest promos it's really easy to see that Donald Glover wants to make 'Atlanta' a very surreal and artistic project. Listening to the music that's been playing during the promos, you can tell that Glover is continuing down the same artistic path that he started with 'Because the Internet' and 'Kauai.' Personally, I am a huge fan of those two albums, and seeing these promos makes me think that 'Atlanta' will be the visual incarnation of those albums. 

The show will revolve around two cousins, Earnest (Donald Glover) and Alfred Miles (Brian Tyree Henry), and their conflicting views of artistic expression. Earnest is a loner that leaves Atlanta only to return and work an "unglamorous" job, while his cousin Alfred becomes one of Atlanta's hottest rappers. Earnest sees a chance to manage Alfred's career and, most likely, this is where the conflict arises. 

As an African American man it's exciting to see more shows being created by and starring more black people. There are shows like 'Power,' 'Blackish,' Empire,' 'How to get away with murder,' and 'Scandal,' only proving further that out stories and our talents have mass appeal and that our culture has tremendous influence and value.

Donald Glover Cast in 'Spider-Man: Homecoming'

Nerds are finally getting what we want! Even if it is not exactly what we wanted. Donald Glover, a few days ago, was just cast in 'Spider-Man: Homecoming,' the latest Spider-Man reboot starring Tom Holland. His role in the film is being kept a secret, and it seems Marvel is doing this intentionally. And when the director, Jon Watts was asked about Donald Glover's role in the movie, by the Daily Beast, he said:

“I can’t talk about anything like that! That would have been so amazing, if I’d just completely spilled some secret like that by accident.  I probably can’t say anything. There’s a little sniper dot on me at all times, just in case. They’ll hit me with a tranq dart.” 

So, obviously, this secret is a big one, maybe even bigger than Spider-Man showing up in 'Captain America: Civil War.' The only thing we can do know is that we know nothing, so all we can do is speculate.

Donald Glover has expressed interest in being in a Spider-Man adaptation ever since they started casting for 'The Amazing Spider-Man' starring Andrew Garfield, back in 2010. Twitter, including myself, went crazy and celebrated the idea of Donald Glover playing Miles Morales, the current Spider-Man in the Ultimate Universe of Marvel Comics. There were Reddit debates, Twitter campaigns, and petitions supporting the idea of Glover playing Spider-Man, but in the end the execs and producers at Sony said that Peter Parker is Spider-Man and that would not change anytime soon. Personally I would have loved to see someone else, especially Miles Morales, take the mantle of Spider-Man on the big screen, because like I have said before, change in comic books and comic book movies is good and keeps them fresh. They have not even announced what kind of role Donald Glover will have in the movie, but people are still extremely excited about his being in the movie and the thought of change. 

What role could Glover possibly be playing? He might be too old to be a peer of Peter Parker's, because the movie will be centered around Parker's teenage years, and he might even be too old to be Miles Morales, unless they stray from the source material and make Miles a young adult and not teenager (God I hope they stray from the source material this one time). There have been unsubstantiated rumors that he would be a love interest of Aunt May or even a secondary villain. Again those rumors are unsubstantiated, and, hopefully, wrong, because I really want to see Miles Morales on the big screen. Honestly, I just want to see a Black Panther/Black Spider-Man team-up movie. Make it happen Marvel!