In “The Old Man and the Tree,” the third episode of its third season, Donald Glover’s FX series explores a billionaire house party gone to hell
is maybe my favorite fish-out-of-water comedy. As much as I love the show’s experimental aspects and occasional dramatic bit, I derive the most pleasure from watching Earn, Al, Darius and Van awkwardly navigate bougie house parties, recording sessions, whatever shitty venue Paper Boi is booked to perform at, and now Europe, like they’re all Alices in Wonderland.
Meanwhile, Darius has a cringey encounter in the kitchen with an Asian woman named MK who immediately assumes he’s hitting on her when he asks her to pass a bottle and turns him down. “I get hit on by Black guys a lot,” MK explains casually. “I lived in Los Angeles for a minute. Black guys love Asian women.” Darius then replies that he thinks it’s a “good cultural exchange” because both groups like hip hop and anime.
In another room, Al and Fernando are playing poker with two other guys. Fernando tells a story about seeing a naked, pale Black man walk into his house, who ended up being a ghost he had sex with. Every random, odd story that’s told on this show becomes some philosophical spiel about race and class. Likewise, he starts asking Al if he believes in ghosts, then God and the Devil, claiming the two both have to exist together. “Why do you think there’s so much killing in the world?” he asks.
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