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Down In the Treme, Just Me & My TV, We're All Goin' Crazy, Plus Happy That The Wire Is Back!

  • May 18, 2010
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 Ok, so The Wire isn't REALLY back but plenty of things about it are. 

See, my television watching friends, the good people who brought you the absolute, no arguments can be made otherwise, best TV show of all time (The Wire), also gift us with Treme. A show, again, about a city. 

Let me stop right there for a second. That's what makes both of these shows so great. In much of the way that Seinfeld was about nothing, these are shows that are about, well, everything. Everything, so long as it has to with the city of New Orleans. 

And that may be where the show could have an eventual leg-up on its Baltimore based predecessor (albeit using a seemingly uninteresting city as a launchpad into some of the most compelling characters TV or movie screens have ever seen before, was a endlessly rewarding strategy). But New Orleans! There probably isn't a more interesting place in the United States of America, and that is without taking the Katrina clusterfuck into consideration. 

If my bias isn't already apparent than it probably will never be. However, I'd be amazed if someone could point me to a more thorough and comprehensive approach to television story telling. Yes, the good, the bad, the ugly, the gross, the funny and every other aspect of real life finds its way into a show of this caliber. 

If you are looking for round stories and wrapped up packaged TV, Teme isn't the hood you want to wind up in. Inconsistencies, weaknesses, shortcomings and other real-human vulnerabilities run rampant and often are driving forces in plot lines, darkening and lightening in the faces of the characters that (while only 6 epsidoes into its first season) already have snagged your interest and appear unlikely to let it go). 

Aside from the driving force of the city powering the show, the underlying current (what Crime was in The Wire) is music. At some point in every episode you feel ready to move to New Orleans. Like it always has, the city's music busting of brass and pace can woo even the staunchest anti-jazzacist and win over anyone even slightly open to the idea of the great unpredictable genre. 

Yes, down in the Treme, we get a little bit of everyone. The angsty College professor armed with conspiracy theories about Katrina (played by John Goodman, I might add). a hard-nosed lawyer, an out-of-luck quirky DJ turned faux-politician, an overspent bistro owner, and more shades of musician than your screen has pixels for. 

Top all this off with the awful but inspiring nostalgia offered in immediate post-Katrina New Orleans and we have the whole package yet again. 

I've told myself to stop comparing but I can't help to imagine that we may have something more than The Wire on our hands.

This time around, don't miss out. 

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Quick Tip by . February 28, 2012
I'm basing my QT solely on the first season of this show, as I no longer have HBO. Like almost every single other program about New Orleans or the surrounding area, it bleeds with stereotypes and misconceptions about the people and places of southeastern Louisiana.
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Treme is an American television drama series created by David Simon and Eric Overmyer. Treme is a neighborhood in the city of New Orleans. The series takes place three months after Hurricane Katrina where the residents of New Orleans, including musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and ordinary New Orleanians try to rebuild their lives, their homes and their unique culture in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane.

The series premiered on HBO April 11, 2010, with an 80-minute pilot episode, the first of a 10 episode season. On April 13, 2010, it was announced that HBO had renewed the show for a second season.
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