According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.216 million household viewers and gained a 0.1 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
As he makes his way out, he is pursued by a woman (Deadra Moore) in a mobility scooter who wanted to prevent people from leaving the store.
While Alfred laments the recently announced death of a rapper named Blueblood, Darius realizes that the woman in the scooter has followed him all the way to their car.
Back at Atlantic Station, Earn and Van keep running into their exes and struggle to find their car in the parking garage.
As they make their way through the dark room, they finally reach the end and emerge in the saloon, meeting Alfred and Keisha, while one of Earn's exes, Kenya (Sh'Kia Augustin), also appears after following them.
When Kenya states she doesn't have a birthday gift for his father, Darius decides to give her the air fryer and leaves with Alfred, Earn and Van.
[1] Darius' storyline was inspired by a real-life event, where during the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis, a video spread showing a woman in a wheelchair confronting looters with a knife,[2] as well as the 2014 American horror-thriller film It Follows, scenes with the woman being shot in a similar manner to the slow-approaching creature in that film.
[3] Alfred's storyline drew parallelisms to rapper MF Doom, who served as an inspiration for the fictional artist Blueblood.
Consequence noted that MF Doom, "similar to Atlanta's fictional rapper, had a reputation in hip hop for being larger than life never being seen without a mask, sometimes sending impersonators to perform as him at shows, and only having his death publicly reported by his family months after the fact.
And, like Atlanta does so often at its best, it dances along a very blurry line between genres, so that we are watching a trio of horror stories of varying kinds that at different points leak into mystery, comedy, relationship drama, social commentary, and more.
"[13] Kyndall Cunningham of The Daily Beast wrote, "The first episode though, appropriately titled 'The Most Atlanta', is some pretty light, plot-less fare, combining the show's surrealist method of storytelling with some local, in-house humor.