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13. Donald Glover Wears Whiteface - Atlanta (Teddy Perkins)

Never one to rest on his laurels, Donald Glover delivered one of the most provocative TV episodes in years with Atlanta's "Teddy Perkins", a deeply unsettling 41-minute masterpiece in which Glover plays the part of the titular eccentric man, in whiteface no less.

That's right. The above picture? That guy's played by Donald Glover underneath colossal amounts of makeup.

Favourably compared by many critics to Get Out, the episode takes on a more disconcerting tenor than is typical for the show, with Darius' (Lakeith Stanfield) attempt to acquire a free piano from Perkins causing him to very nearly end up murdered by the man.

Glover's performance here is sublimely creepy yet never quite devolves into caricature or cliche, with astonishing makeup allowing Glover to make a potent social commentary on race, performance and identity.

Delicately balancing its tone between horror and charcoal-black humour, this is unquestionably both Atlanta and Glover at their incisive best.