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

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.