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'Atlanta' Returns With A New 'Robbin' Season'

Donald Glover's Emmy-winning comedy returns Thursday night with sharply drawn characters and an appreciation for the problems with success.
Earn Marks (Donald Glover) and his friends are still hustling in the second season of FX's <em>Atlanta</em>.

The first season of the FX comedy didn't just introduce its characters through a series of memorable vignettes about relationships, music, weed and money. It gradually broke down expectations until it could do almost anything. It could cast a black actor to play Justin Bieber without elaborating. It could turn itself into a half-hour send-up of a low-budget cable talk show. It stretched the boundaries in which

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