New Shows to Watch on TV This Week: ‘Atlanta’ Returns and ‘Halo’ Dawns

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“Atlanta”Thursday, March 24 at 10 p.m., FXMore than four years after the previous season aired, “Atlanta” is back for its hotly anticipated third season.

This season once again stars Donald Glover, Brian Tyree Henry, LaKeith Stanfield and Zazie Beetz, and was directed by Glover’s longtime creative collaborator Hiro Murai.

But this season of “Atlanta” is markedly free of Atlanta, as the new season follows Paper Boi (Henry) as he goes on his first international tour, with stops in London, Paris and Amsterdam. (Famously, Glover had the entire writing staff moved to London so that he could work on the scripts for season 2 while filming “Solo: A Star Wars Story.” Now he’s back!) And while the protracted wait was, indeed, a bummer, fret not – the fourth (and final) season of “Atlanta” will premiere on FX later this year. [TRAILER]“Our Flag Means Death”Thursday, March 24, HBO MaxAdmittedly, “Our Flag Means Death” started out a little shaky, as we followed fancy man Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby) as he attempted to start a new life of high-seas piracy.

Tonally it was stuck somewhere notorious flop “Cabin Boy” and the British stop-motion animated “Pirates! A Band of Misfits.” But as the series went on, it started revealing formerly hidden complexities, both in terms of Bonnet’s life before he got on the ship (Darby’s character is based on a real historical figure) and later as his relationship with Blackbeard (Taika Waititi) evolved. (Blackbeard wants to learn how to be more of a gentleman and offers to teach Bonnet how to be more of a pirate.) Stuffed with unexpected twists and out-of-left-field cameo appearances (yes, that’s Leslie Jones), “Our Flag Means Death” has sneakily become one of the best shows on TV.