Every Episode Of Atlanta Season One Ranked Worst To Best

10. Episode 1 - The Big Bang

To put the debut episode last in the list is enough to get a serious slap on the wrist, but really episode one's The Big Bang acts as the framing device for the episodes that follow. Atlanta is a semi-anthology series; with a narrative and recurring handful of four main characters, the situations and scenarios are what differ so much.

The Big Bang establishes who are the main characters of the show, what their relationships might entail. We're just getting to know this world that Donald and director Hiro Murai are developing.

The premiere has a lot of ground to cover within the episode; the rupturing and unstable relationship between Earn and Van, the inciting incident that establishes the three characteristics of Paper Boi, Darius and Earn, and of course the ambitions of Earn and Alfred and what the series might have in store for them this morning.

Compared to what's to come in Atlanta, The Big Bang is a tame gathering of character beats that gives the show sober room to breathe. We learn about Earn, Van and Alfred in the first episode, and not matter how much he talks, we learn less and less about Darius.