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Treme! From the creators of the Wire

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David_Dovey:
Hugs 4 HBO

Tom:
I still miss Deadwood and Carnivale, especially Carninvale.

KvP:
Just finished up the first episode (can't find streaming, but the torrents look to be 300+ seeders, so it doesn't take more than 20 minutes for the download) and yeah, I'm thinking that this will be similar to the Wire in terms of depth and scope, but it's gonna be hard to adjust to the changes in stakes - this is deep character study, not cutthroat gangster drama.

KvP:
Also if you're playing along at home, Alan Sepinwall's got pretty good coverage of the show on an episode by episode basis, as does Dave Walker at NOLA.com, who reviews it as a native here.

Inlander:
I'll admit I was ever-so-slightly underwhelmed by the first episode of this. I liked it well enough but without the crime angle of the Wire it seemed to be lacking the drama. But after watching the second episode something's just clicked. I don't know what it is, but now I'm absolutely fascinated by these characters and I really care about what happens to them and I can't wait to see how their stories unfold and develop. I think my favourite character at the moment is Clarke Peters' Albert Lambreaux. For a lot of the second episode he seemed to be channelling Lester Freamon, wandering around the city slowly piecing together the whereabouts of missing people, wondering why the housing projects were boarded up - and then wham! Out of nowhere he beats the shit out of that thief, and he's definitely no Freamon. Amazing. And then that practice scene at the end, with just him and the one guy from his tribe who's turned up, and both of them playing their tambourines and singing about Katrina - I think that was my favourite musical sequence from the whole episode.

And speaking of the music - I've never been to New Orleans but as someone who lives in a city with a thriving music culture I can say that Treme is doing a simply superb job in capturing the depth and range and interconnectedness of the scene in a truly musical city. I have a feeling that the music in Treme is going to play the same role the jokes in the Wire did: the characters in the Wire had grown up in a broken city and they'd all evolved a black sense of humour to help them cope with it; the characters in Treme are still in shock and trying to adjust to a city that out of nowhere has suddenly been shattered, and they don't have the innate defence mechanisms that their counterparts in the Wire had - but they've got music, which is the spark of joy that keeps them going.

EDIT: Oh also, Lucia Micarelli. Yeah, I can stand to watch her, that's okay.

Really excited for episode three now!

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