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If you only know Donald Glover from his role on "Community," then his new comedy "Atlanta" (11 p.m., FX) will no doubt come as a bit of a surprise.

A very pleasant surprise.

Glover, who's best known for starring as goofy community college student Troy, is the creator, writer, executive producer and star of "Atlanta" — which is about as different from "Community" as it could be.

He plays Earnest "Earn" Marks, a young man who's sort of drifting through life, looking for … something. He's living with his daughter's mother; his parents won't let him back in their house; he's working a dead-end, low-paying job.

Earn thinks his chance at something better has arrived when his cousin, Alfred — aka Paper Boi — (Brian Tyree Jackson), starts selling home-made rap CDs. It's not like Earn has stars in his eyes. He's way too realistic for that. But he does see a way to support himself and his daughter.

"Atlanta" is not the traditional sort of set-up, joke, set-up, joke comedy television has been doing for years. It's more along the lines of "Louie" or "Master of None" — the comedy arises from the situations. And it has its own distinctive point of view.

And distinctive setting. The characters don't have much money; they don't live in the nice part of town; they're struggling to survive.

Yes, most of them are African-American, but these people are far removed from the characters on "Empire." Glover said his goal for the series is "to show people how it felt to be black" — and, as much as that's possible, "Atlanta" succeeds at that.

It succeeds, period.Elsewhere on TV …

• "Bachelor in Paradise" (7 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4): The season ends with engagements and heartbreaks.

• "America's Got Talent" (7 p.m., NBC/Ch. 5): The semifinal round continues.

• "9/11 Inside the Pentagon" (7 p.m., PBS/Ch. 7): The Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon is recalled people who were there — and with footage from inside the Pentagon.

• "The Haves and the Have Nots" (7 p.m., OWN): Katheryn is pushed to her limit.

• "MADtv" (8 p.m., CW/Ch. 30): Carlie Craig, Chelsea Davison, Jeremy D. Howard, Amir K, Lyric Lewis, Piotr Michael, Michelle Ortiz and Adam Ray perform sketch-comedy skits.

• "Queen Sugar" (8 p.m., OWN): In the premiere of this new series, stranged siblings come together to save their family's ailing sugarcane farm in Louisiana.

• "Zoo" (8 and 9 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2): Mitch and Jamie come up with a plan to undermine the Noah Objective; the team reunites to ensure the final pieces of the cure are in place. (Season finale)

• "Mistresses" (9 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4): Jumping ahead a few months, Joss and Harry and April and Marc are new parents. (Season finale)

• "Better Late than Never (9 p.m., NBC/Ch. 5): In South Korea, the guys visit a K-pop school and shoot a music video, stay at an inexpensive spa and visit the DMZ.

• "America by the Numbers: The New Deciders" (9 p.m., PBS/Ch. 7): A look at demographic groups that will play pivotal roles in the 2016 presidential election, including Arab-Americans, black millennials, Latino evangelicals and Asian-Americans.

• "Harley and the Davidsons" (10 p.m., Discovery): The Harley-Davidson company returns to racing after a series of setbacks. (Part 2 of 3)

• "Born This Way" (11 p.m., A&E): Megan explores L.A. and realizes it isn't all glamour; Rachel learns she is pre-diabetic.

• "Halt and Catch Fire" (11 p.m., AMC): Donna and Cameron have a hard time agreeing on their acquisition.

• "Chrisley Knows Best" (11 p.m., USA): Todd and have colonoscopies. That's entertainment?