Treme
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Finally caught up with Treme 1 & 2 last night, still waiting to watch 3.
Overall...I'm intrigued enough to keep watching, not the least of which is because no HBO show I know caught fire within the first few episodes. Everything needs time to breath and evolve and as an earlier poster made mention, what we have so far is a lot of dialogue, not so much exposition and I'm absolutely good with that.
My main concern is how ham-fisted a some of the show has been in just two episodes. My friend said that Treme, thus far, reminded him of The Wire S5 and I thought he had a point, insofar as in that season, Simon ditched nuance in favor of polemics and in Treme, there's just a lot of heavy-handednes being thrown down. The white Xian tourists, for example. John Goodman's Ep1 screeds (though his explanation of the school situation to his daughter in Ep2 was nuanced).
Of course, it's kind of hard to talk about post-Katrina NOLA without getting polemical. Katrina itself, one could say, is one massive polemic.
So I'm waiting to see what happens.
Characters: I'm skeptical about Zahn but I'll withhold judgment until later.
Joannie from "Deadwood" is back, ftw!
Lester sans glasses and beard = my wife didn't recognize him until I pointed out it was the same actor. I also didn't realize he had killed the thief. DAMN!
Overall...I'm intrigued enough to keep watching, not the least of which is because no HBO show I know caught fire within the first few episodes. Everything needs time to breath and evolve and as an earlier poster made mention, what we have so far is a lot of dialogue, not so much exposition and I'm absolutely good with that.
My main concern is how ham-fisted a some of the show has been in just two episodes. My friend said that Treme, thus far, reminded him of The Wire S5 and I thought he had a point, insofar as in that season, Simon ditched nuance in favor of polemics and in Treme, there's just a lot of heavy-handednes being thrown down. The white Xian tourists, for example. John Goodman's Ep1 screeds (though his explanation of the school situation to his daughter in Ep2 was nuanced).
Of course, it's kind of hard to talk about post-Katrina NOLA without getting polemical. Katrina itself, one could say, is one massive polemic.
So I'm waiting to see what happens.
Characters: I'm skeptical about Zahn but I'll withhold judgment until later.
Joannie from "Deadwood" is back, ftw!
Lester sans glasses and beard = my wife didn't recognize him until I pointed out it was the same actor. I also didn't realize he had killed the thief. DAMN!
The 45 seconds of Treme that I've watched so far already gave me that intense feeling of boredom that I got anytime I ever tried to watch The Wire. I'm now as scared as ever to watch any more of it...plus as a friend put it, why would I want to watch a bunch of black folks struggling to get some money when I already see that all day long?
Well, I still watched Good Times and Sanford & Son back in the day.
Yeah, dude's next comment was...at least Good Times was funny.
Just saw ep 3 - so the kid Lambreaux beat lived. I assumed he died - especially since Lambreaux was washing his hands at some drainpipe in the dark in one of the shots following the beat down scene; the kid will probably still end up dying. On the whole I'm still giving Treme the benefit of the doubt - it meanders a bit, and some of the scenes are quite clunky - like every scene involving violin girls boyfriend - but all in all its quite good imo.
Generation Kill tho? Straight fire. really enjoying that at the moment.
Generation Kill tho? Straight fire. really enjoying that at the moment.
Nah, but that was a slick move she pulled. She knew all her picks would be at that party! She was just messing with her dude.
Nah, but that was a slick move she pulled. She knew all her picks would be at that party! She was just messing with her dude.
OK good. I thought that might be the case lol.
Are we going to see that Dutch busker dude sulk over some bullshit every episode? Say what you will about Wire season 2, there's like three and a half Ziggys on Treme. I fully expected John Goodman's character to punctuate his youtube rant with several interjections of "YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS LARRY?" If he was half-Sobchak in the pilot, he's up to 80% now.
Only one more episode left. I've stuck with the series, although I'm still not entirely in love with it. Last night's episode definitely reminded viewers that living in the David Simon universe is often a huge bummer. As I said in my waxidermy post, I think I might like the series better upon repeat viewings.
I have to admit...I find this show to be pretty boring. Nothing happens! Plus I feel they take A LOT of liberties assuming the audience is up on N.O./Mardi Gras Indian culture. I shouldn't have to read blogs to understand what was meant. Do you guys think maybe Simon needs Burns to keep things interesting?
I like it. Great characters...if you have great characters, they could sit around and do laundry and I would be engaged with them. Simon is a master of that....
so, are we led to believe Goodman checked out last night?
so, are we led to believe Goodman checked out last night?
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