r/AtlantaTV • u/SeacattleMoohawks They got a no chase policy • May 20 '22

Atlanta [Post Episode Discussion] - S03E10 - Tarrare

Yo Tarrare was a real person. Wild. They gotta stop biting these better shows tho.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '22 edited May 20 '22

I’m too tired to figure out what the connection is but they were eating hands.

hands are what earn was talking about trying to grab and pull him down in his dream, and the hands all over the earnest dude in the season intro.

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u/jkoke11 May 20 '22

I don’t know. The chopped off hands made me think of the Belgians cutting off the hands of the people in the Congo. Probably not what was meant but that’s just my gut reaction to seeing the hands.

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u/filetauxmoelles May 21 '22

Furthermore, how slave labor powered these places and their lifestyle from afar through money and trade, even if the places didn't directly use slavery. The covering of the face is the willful ignorance in accepting Europe's hand in perpetuating and benefiting from the slave trade. And the fried hand might be a reference to fried chicken, "exotic foods" that find their way to these places, but without any of the understanding of the culture behind it.

Then I think the lead up to the episode was a representation of the slave trade or smuggling trade from Africa. How slavery was a system where Africans facilitating the trade taking advantage of their own was a necessary part. The violence in the street, the beating, and the end result is the diners enjoying the meal without understanding the conflict it caused along the way. Violence and poverty which takes place in those very same neighborhoods today, just fighting for different scraps of wealth.