9.7/109,293 votesLoading...#1 - Teddy Perkins
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 4/5/2018
Darius is trippin in this one. Y'all know I woulda been left.
Director: Hiro Murai
Writer: Donald Glover
9.4/102,607 votesLoading...#2 - It Was All a Dream
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/10/2022
You know what? As much as I hated this show, I think I'm gonna miss it.
Director: Hiro Murai
Writer: Donald Glover
9.3/106,304 votesLoading...#3 - B.A.N.
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/11/2016
A satirical episode, Paper Boi features as a guest on a talk show called Montague, being part of a discussion on the media's indictment of Black culture and its intersection with trans people. Commercial parodies play throughout the episode during the breaks of the talk show.
Director: Donald Glover
Writer: Donald Glover
9.1/104,471 votesLoading...#4 - Barbershop
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 3/29/2018
You know how you need a fresh cut but your barber is always on some wack stuff? He's lucky I only trust him.
Director: Donald Glover
Writer: Stefani Robinson
9.1/102,127 votesLoading...#5 - Crank Dat Killer
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/2022
Ay, Ya'll remember how we used to hit the club and do the Pool Palace and Crank Dat and nobody got shot? Yeah me neither.
Director: Hiro Murai
Writer: Stephen Glover
9.0/103,155 votesLoading...#6 - North of the Border
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 4/26/2018
We might have to make that move tonight. I heard there's a pajama party and Paper Boi is gonna be there.
Director: Hiro Murai
Writer: Jamal Olori
9.0/103,821 votesLoading...#7 - Three Slaps
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 3/24/2022
Wow it’s been a minute. I mean, I like this episode about the troubled kid but we waited 50 years for this?
Director: Hiro Murai
Writer: Stephen Glover
8.9/102,263 votesLoading...#8 - The Homeliest Little Horse
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/2022
We got grown men out here being this petty. Y'all really need therapy. I don't cuz I already know what's wrong with me.
Director: Angela Barnes
Writer: Ibra Ake
8.8/103,666 votesLoading...#9 - Alligator Man
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 3/1/2018
Ayyy! We back in the city but thangs feel a little different. Must be Robbin' Season. Free Paper Boi!
Director: Hiro Murai
Writer: Donald Glover
8.8/103,348 votesLoading...#10 - Woods
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 4/19/2018
Why Paper Boi always got an attitude? He rich, right? That's why I can't feel bad for these celebrities.
Director: Hiro Murai
Writer: Stefani Robinson
8.8/103,118 votesLoading...#11 - FUBU
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 5/3/2018
Y’all youngins don't know nothing about this. This one takes me back to middle school. Shout out Miller Grove!
Director: Donald Glover
Writer: Stephen Glover
8.8/102,169 votesLoading...#12 - The Most Atlanta
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/2022
Woooh chile, Atl is the GHETTO these days. I'm thinking about moving to Miami where it's safe. Leave all my exes on read.
Director: Hiro Murai
Writer: Stephen Glover
8.7/101,701 votesLoading...#13 - Andrew Wyeth. Alfred's World.
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/3/2022
They always making Paper Boi go through something.
Director: Hiro Murai
Writer: Taofik Kolade
8.6/103,321 votesLoading...#14 - The Club
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/18/2016
An NBA star named Marcus Miles is in the same club as Paper Boi, hogging the drinks, women and limelight, which aggravates Paper Boi. Additionally, their promoter is avoiding paying Earn, who attempts to chase him down throughout the night. Eventually, Paper Boi strong-arms him and takes his money. Later, another shooting happens (outside of the club), which the police link to Paper Boi on the news due to his "armed robbery".
Director: Hiro Murai
Writer: Jamal Olori
8.6/102,568 votesLoading...#15 - Crabs in a Barrel
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 5/10/2018
Sometimes you gotta go where the money goes. But it be feeling like something is holding me back. Like I can't leave.
Director: Hiro Murai
Writer: Stephen Glover
8.6/102,468 votesLoading...#16 - New Jazz
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 5/5/2022
Al and Darius walk around Amsterdam. Psssh, I could make a way better tv show than this.
Director: Hiro Murai
Writer: Donald Glover
8.5/103,131 votesLoading...#17 - The Jacket
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/1/2016
Earn loses his jacket, which has imporant items to him, after a night of partying. The Uber driver, who is a drug and weapons dealer, has it but ends up getting shot by police while wearing it. Later, Paper Boi gives Earn a generous 5% pay which he gives to Van. Earn's coworker Justin comes by and returns the important item he desperately needed—a key which unlocks the storage facility space he is living in.
Director: Hiro Murai
Writer: Stephen Glover
8.5/102,561 votesLoading...#18 - The Old Man and the Tree
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 3/31/2022
This one was cool. Going to rich parties and meeting weirdos. Season 1 was better.
Director: Hiro Murai
Writer: Taofik Kolade
8.5/102,508 votesLoading...#19 - Cancer Attack
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 4/14/2022
Sometimes shows just be over my head acting fake deep. Where's the poop jokes?
Director: Hiro Murai
Writer: Jamal Olori
8.5/102,205 votesLoading...#20 - The Goof Who Sat by the Door
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 10/27/2022
An in depth look at the making of the American Classic A Goofy Movie.
Director: Donald Glover
Writer: Francesca Sloane, Karen Joseph Adcock
8.4/103,769 votesLoading...#21 - Streets on Lock
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/6/2016
Issues like police brutality, mental illness, and transphobia are addressed as Earn awaits bail after the boys get arrested for their shooting incident.
Director: Hiro Murai
Writer: Stephen Glover
8.4/103,160 votesLoading...#22 - Juneteenth
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/25/2016
Earn wakes up in another woman's bed and Van comes by to pick him up for a Juneteenth-themed party which she believes will help her establish good networking. The luxury home's owner is a rich White man who is shown to know quite a lot about Black culture in an anthropological way and his bourgeois Black wife. To impress the party's attendees, Vanessa and Earnest have to pretend they are a married couple who love fine art. Earn ends up going off on the homeowners when the wife insults Paper Boi and his hip hop management career after he is outed by some valets. On the drive back home, Earn and Van have sex in their car.
Director: Janicza Bravo
Writer: Stefani Robinson
8.3/102,807 votesLoading...#23 - Money Bag Shawty
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 3/15/2018
Earn is out here making that money. Too bad he still look broke as hell. This whole city runs on stunting, you feel me?
Director: Hiro Murai
Writer: Stephen Glover
8.3/102,609 votesLoading...#24 - Sinterklaas Is Coming to Town
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 3/24/2022
I think everybody knows blackface ain’t cool anymore, we get it. They be trying too hard to go viral.
Director: Hiro Murai
Writer: Janine Nabers
8.3/101,820 votesLoading...#25 - Work Ethic!
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/6/2022
One time I was gonna be an extra on this TV show but then they started asking me about Social Security numbers and taxes and being up there at 5am. I know y'all ain't doing that with Taraji.
Director: Donald Glover
Writer: Janine Nabers
The Best Episodes of Atlanta
Every episode of Atlanta ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Atlanta!
Two cousins work through the Atlanta music scene in order to better their lives and the lives of their families.
Genres:ComedyDrama
Network:FX
Best Episodes Summary
"Teddy Perkins" is the best rated episode of "Atlanta". It scored 9.7/10 based on 9293 votes. Directed by Hiro Murai and written by Donald Glover, it aired on 4/5/2018. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "It Was All a Dream".