treme
anyone catch treme on hbo on sunday night?
i never really watch new tv shows but when i heard treme was coming on, i was immediately intrigued.
i’m very interested in all things new orleans – the culture, the music, the food, the people, the history, and yes, even the hurricane.
the show takes place three months after hurricane katrina and follows a bunch of different people and how they are rebuilding their lives.
david simon and eric overmyer – the two guys form homicide and the wire – created the show. i heard them on npr about two weeks ago. listen to that awesome interview here
anyway, i watched it last nite and love it already. it was pretty much a set up episode, introducing the characters – which include wendell pierce (bunk from the wire) as a struggling trombonist, steve zahn (as a new orleans dj and jazz lover), john goodman (as a college professor with a big mouth about fema and the government) and so many others actors, musicians and real-life new orleans folk.
oh i could go on and on. the first episode is on demand. anyone else watch? anyone else excited for it?
Comments
I hadn’t heard anything about it until NPR reported that one of the two dudes died while filming in New Orleans a week or two ago.
No HBO, though, so we can’t watch till it’s out on DVD.
I meant to DVR it but got caught up in….other issues. I’m going to set it up tonight to record and then hopefully catch the first episode…..somewhere (We have Cablevision up here not Comcast).
It’s not so much the Hurricane Katrina topic as it is the deep south in general. Whenever television/movies/books are set down there, I’m hooked. Take Love Song For Bobby Long, Big Fish, or Curious Case of Benjamin Button for instance.
jonathan, i completely agree i was talking about this with dave and joanna last nite. a love song for bobby long solidified it for me.
John said:
No HBO, though, so we can’t watch till it’s out on DVD.
Srsly? I call bulllshit, unless you’re saying legally.
It’s too time-consuming to download HD copies and transfer to the laptop.