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

tuba dude might have an unrealistic idea about how much people could or should get paid to be in a cable TV series because he thinks it's a movie tbh. this and The Wire are not really megabudget productions.

When does this actually start?

11 apr

4/11 for americans (never 4get)

11/4 for britishes

I knew David Mills at the University of Maryland and wrote for his Uncut Funk fanzine years ago. Oh I had a few little disagreements with him on some things, but we always talked things though. I just forwarded him something by e-mail a few weeks ago. He wrote some great articles for the Washington Post and wrote for a number of tv shows. Aww man, this is shocking to me. RIP

I was just gonna post this piece about the show-

http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-03-30/music/how-treme-can-get-it-right/

THE VILLAGE VOICE
March 30, 2010

How Treme Can Get It Right
David Simon's new HBO series uses fiction to honor New Orleans'
surreal, heart-breaking fact

By Larry Blumenfeld

Wow, can't believe Mills is gone.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/zontv/2010/03/david_mills_emmywinning_screen.html

goddamn that's fucking sad!

man :(

48

terrible thing

Mills first tried his hand at screenwriting with an episode of Homicide, written for his old friend Simon. The episode (starring Robin Williams) was named “Bop Gun” in reference to a Parliament Funkadelic song

Plenty of obits and related pieces on Mills everywhere.

For those worrying about authenticity and getting the right musicians to advise--check out this indepth piece regarding consultations with brass bands and Cajun groups

http://www.offbeat.com/2010/04/01/hbos-treme-to-tell-the-truth/

That's a terrific article

One more Mills (and Simon) piece with links

http://nymag.com/daily/tv/2010/04/david_mills_treme.html

haven't read this yet

http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/heather_havrilesky/2010/04/04/david_simon_s_treme/index.html

Pilot episode goes on air at 10 PM Eastern this evening. No access to HBO right now, so no Treme for me, sadly. Anyone going to be watching/liveblogging this?

can't imagine anything that would hurt my enjoyment of a show like more than liveblogging it tbh. i'm sure i'll post here after i watch it, though prolly on demand.

<3 u joanie stubbs

<3 u bunk moreland

<3 u john goodman

<3 u lester freamon

enjoying this liveblog

was it good?

it's not over yet!

it's quality for sure, with great cast and appropriately great music (mystikal!!!)

first ep's just putting pieces in place so who knows really.

oh and New Orleans looks like New Orleans

steve zahn's character is so fucking annoying you guys

clarke peters is so great

Yeah, advance reviews said that things would start slow and begin to pick up around eps. 2 and 3.

um, anyone know where I could find this streaming online?

Good episode! I had some quibbles here and there but nothing major.

what's it about?

Anyone know the song Steve Zahn was blasting out to his neighbors in the premier?

i havent seen it yet, but was it this scene they talk abt in the nyt?

Davis turns apoplectic when his station decrees that he play old New Orleans standards during a pledge drive, songs that he denounces, in cruder language, as the New Orleans “canon.” He defiantly puts on “Buona Sera,” a signature song of Louis Prima, a New Orleans native son. It’s not exactly a radical departure from French Quarter fare, but it’s enough for Davis, who happily sings along, surrendering to the swing and sentimentality.

This was an earlier scene, where he's in his house and he put his speakers on his window sill to piss off his neighbors. It was the only song I didn't recognize.

"I taught him everything he knows... about Keynesian economics." Love the Steve Zahn character.

xp Dude, that's "Shake Ya Ass". By Mystikal.

steve zahn's character is so fucking annoying you guys

the guy his character is based is even more annoying, trust

oh and New Orleans looks like New Orleans

For better and for worse, it damn sure does.

i liked it btw, and it'll be interesting to see where it goes post-pilot. so funny to see the rebirth dudes acting.

steve zahn's character is so fucking annoying you guys

But he's not supposed to be captain smooth or something. He's this overly verbose, really passionate, wanna-be-egghead jerk-off, but he really does mean well. It's like he stepped out of a Woody Allen movie into NO.

xp Dude, that's "Shake Ya Ass". By Mystikal.
Thanks.

he played bouncin' back too. must have had the greatest hits cd.

seeing as the thread with the correctly spelled title was locked someone might want to change this one. no accent yall.

ps VAUGHAN'S YALL. i wonder if we will get more business so i will make more money and not have to get a real job.

ya this doesn't show up in search

got it.

The scene where the Zahn character turns his speakers outwards and blasts dark music at his neighbors made me laugh a lot, because I've actually done that. It was like 14 years ago, and I was turning my speakers to the University of Texas frat house across the street, and I was blasting Nas's "Represent". It was as obnoxious, useless and silly when I did it then as when he did it in the show.

dark music?

Yeah, it was a joke. "Dark" music.

As if all hip-hop offends all white people. You know, that kinda thinking.