ATLANTA Thursdays FOX Life (*126) 22:40 Drama

Earn Marks (Donald Glover) is stuck in a dead- end job that pays peanuts. But then the Atlanta (2016- current) lead character spots an opportunity – to manage his rapper cousin.

Earn dropped out of 1

Princeton University to become a music manager but his family still holds that against him.

He lives with his baby2

mama girlfriend Van (Zazie Beetz), who wants Earn to man up and get a job to provide for them.

In episode 1 (6 Octo3

ber), Earn tried to talk his drugdealer cousin Alfred – aka Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry) – into managing his career but Alfred had reservations.

Paper Boi only hired 4

Earn after he got his new song played on radio – by paying a friend at the studio with his last money.

Paper Boi added to his 5

street cred and hype in episode 3 (20 October) by doing a drug deal with a gangster who shot a client in front of him. NB! See more on p47