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. On the drive back home, Earn and Van have sex in their car.

Atlanta Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - The Big Bang
• s01e02 - Streets on Lock
• s01e03 - Go for Broke
• s01e04 - The Streisand Effect
• s01e05 - Nobody Beats the Biebs
• s01e06 - Value
• s01e07 - B.A.N.
• s01e08 - The Club
• s01e09 - Juneteenth
• s01e10 - The Jacket

Atlanta Show Summary

During his daily life in Atlanta, Georgia, Earnest 'Earn' Marks' tries to redeem himself in the eyes of his ex-girlfriend, who is the mother of his daughter, as well as his parents and his cousin Alfred, who raps under the stage name 'Paper Boi'.

Having dropped out of Princeton University, Earn has no money and no home and consequently alternates between staying with his parents and his girlfriend. Once he realizes that his cousin is on the verge of stardom, he desperately seeks to reconnect to improve his life and the life of his daughter, Lottie.