Anticipating Treme aka "Tremé" - David Simon and his buddies do post-Katrina N.O.

Really loving this show.

The show put a smile on my face during one of the scenes in David Chang's restaurant where they played 'Uptown Top Ranking.'

the kitchen scenes are becoming my favorite part of this show

It seemed inevitable at the beginning of the season that within 4 or 5 episodes they would bring her back down to New Orleans. I really respect that they've run with the NYC thing like this.

nah, this show really sucks. i'm getting off the bus.

says the only guy left on the bus, to noone in particular

I'm on the bus. I'm lovin' the ride.

Slept on this show for ages, but went through all the episodes over the last few weeks. Sure, it's not perfect, but it has a lot of charms.

New season starts Sunday. HBO has already picked it up for a shortened fourth and final season.

have not seen in some time, would like to, still resent amateurist for his life mission of raining on things

http://www.nola.com/treme-hbo/index.ssf/2012/09/hbos_treme_renewed_for_a_fourt.html

HBO's 'Treme' renewed for a fourth and final season

“Treme” drew an average of 2.2 million cumulative weekly viewers in its second season, far below HBO blockbusters like “True Blood,” “Game of Thrones” and “Boardwalk Empire,” but HBO programming executives had expressed admiration for the show’s execution and importance. Steeped in New Orleans music, cuisine and recovery-related social and political issues, the post-Katrina drama was honored with a Peabody Award in April.

Simon said the past week was spent securing the participating of all the series’ main cast members, a complicated contractual task given the shorter season.

“To a person, they all came back,” Simon said. “We’re happy for a chance to finish the story on our own terms.”

What I've seen is flawed, but I most certainly agree that it has its charms

The show can be quite preachy/corny at times, but then there'll be an episode or a scene that is so damned good that it merits the whole exercise.

i'm glad people are getting paid but the show's whole "oh yo trombone shorty what's up nothin kid just eatin a lucky dog in front of preservation hall with my boy steve earle we fixin to go get some gumbo ya ya down the bayou wit ya mom n dem" vibe is pretty lol. not everything is all new orleans all the time!

tho they shot a scene with eyehategod which is a step in the right direction, has that episode aired yet?

hahah eyehategod, for real?! they didn't show up this premiere no

even when this show is being totally aimless, there's just something amiable about it that i can't help but be charmed by

Shame to see the show end, I enjoyed its meandering charms.

i stopped watching out of indifference midway through the 3rd season. should i go ahead and finish it?

just started watching season 3, it's pleasantly boring. mostly i pause it a lot to tell my girlfriend some story about run-ins with the musicians or places in the show (and being reminded of those stories is the main appeal for me, that and the novelty of seeing brass band dudes acting).

i'm just waiting until i can afford the damn thing, but maybe i can just stream it online by this point and catch up

s3 was the ebst season, it comes together at the end very nicely.

the indian practice in season 3 ep 4 had the juice, it's those little moments that make me glad they did the show. shannon powell's musical cameo was nice to see too. it's even worth sitting through all of the scenes of the violin player's dumb band.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/arts/television/tv-the-old-way-watching-whats-on.html?_r=0

the dim belief that music is truth

fukk u caramanica

Just now watching this - alternating between enjoying it a lot and being bored to tears. Did we really make it to the last episode of the first season before any rap gets air time?
God, I hope pretty violinist busker isn't going to hook up with Steve Zahn for S2.

::bites tongue::

Dammit.

Why's that a bad thing? They were my two favourites.

Sometimes Zahn was annoying

I read that he improves but he's constantly annoying in S1.

He is extremely irritating all the way to the finale. I was thinking he can't always be this bad and then he was even worse in that doomed Christian Slater vehicle.

God, the political brass-bounce band is painful to listen to.

this is the worst-ever show abt new orleans, including both real worlds and k-ville.

hey i liked k-ville!!

k-ville gave us the "gumbo party" so i cant hate too hard

i mean it was a cop show, i wasn't watching for documentary excellence

It's too bad the entire show isn't about Wendell Pierce.

finishing season 3, need to call attention to the conversation between journalist metal dude and girl in the line at the airport

her: (some question about music)
him: "yeah, some metal"
her: ??
him: "i like metal...and sea shanties"
she turns around
he smirks
hahaha that guy

http://grantland.com/features/david-simon-show-me-a-hero-hbo-the-wire-treme/

Food comes in, and Simon jokingly grumbles, “Do I look like a chicken-salad-eating motherfucker?!”

kind of

the more notable quote is you cannot make me give a fuck, said abt Grantlands dumb content article abt ranking Wire characters, which obv hes otm

Kind of looking back at this fondly now - episode to episode points could be bad and John Goodman/Steve Zahn were pretty awful but it was so good at the small-level humanist stuff (like The Wire). The growth of Goodman's daughter and the wife he left behind with her new husband, Wendell Pierce becoming a band director, the abusive junkie keyboard player turned shrimper. Even the Big Chief's son (no idea that was the kid from Finding Forrester!) became pretty interesting over the course of the show.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/06/stephen-colbert-picks-jon-batiste-as-late-show-bandleader/

A native of Louisiana and graduate of Julliard, Batiste is a big name in the worlds of jazz and blues music. A prolific solo musician in his own right, he’s also collaborated with Prince, Wynton Marsalis, Allen Toussaint, and Dr. John over the years. Batiste has a very charismatic personality, as seen on-stage with raucous live performances and off the stage in acting roles on HBO’s Treme and Spike Lee’s Red Hook Summer.