Every Episode Of Atlanta Season Two Ranked Worst To Best

11. Episode 05 - Barbershop

It's very easy to empathize with Alfred - around him, he's found himself in frustrating circumstances with the man on the street. In this case, it's the latter as all throughout, all he wants is a haircut.

His barber, Bibby, obnoxiously does everything in his power to prolong the process and every time, we empathize and get just as frustrated as Alfred does. The sitcom-style events Bibby takes Alfred on would be laugh-out loud funny if Brian Tyree Henry weren't that good of an actor. Because Brian (as Alfred) plays the eye-rolling, sighing and outright anger of a person we can emulate so the episode feels much longer than it actually is.

Maybe that is the point? As at the end, Alfred gets his haircut, but returns to the barbers later on but refuses to go to Bibby's chair. He opts for a different barber, who is unfamiliar with Alfred and therefore doesn't know what his particular style is.

A whole new process has begun, one with frustrated explaining and directing for both parties. Alfred may have dropped one conveniences, but he's picked up a whole new one. Something that could happen later on down the line for him.