Atlanta Final Season Premiere Date Announced

To coincide with the release date announcement, FX has also dropped a trailer for the final season which sees Glover’s Earn, Brian Tyree Henry’s Paper Boi, LaKeith Stanfield’s Darius and Zazie Beetz’s Van return for more acclaimed adventures. critical in their hometown where they will step into what executive producer Hiro Murai calls, “the greatest hits season.”

“Season four, we’re back in Atlanta and it was kind of a homecoming and it was really lovely,” Murai previously teased. “We have to say goodbye to the city and the show properly, I think it’s going to be a bit nostalgic too because I don’t think you’ve seen Atlanta in the summer since season one. It’s kind of like greatest hits season.”

The release of the fourth and final season of Atlanta comes approximately four months after the third season finale, which premiered earlier this year, nearly four years after the second season of Atlanta aired in 2018. three and four were originally scheduled to air in 2021, but production was reportedly postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Atlanta was renewed for a fourth season in August 2019, ahead of season 3. At the time, each season was to consist of eight episodes. However, at Glover’s request, the episode count for the third season was increased to 10 episodes “because things went so well in the writers room”, according to FX president John Landgraf. Therefore, the final season has also been extended to 10 episodes.

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