Treme

[heidilynnla]

Wow! I heard Treme was soooo good, so I added HBO to my cable package. Is anyone watching this? All these Hollywood types want to come to our city and give such a distorted perspective of what happens here. This one will be off the air as fast as K-Ville. You want a hit show? Try showing the reality of the "criminal side" of New Orleans.

Let's be real here. Give me a break!

[DallasRain]

I saw Treme couple times...I could never reallly get into it though.......have yall seen BAD LIEUTENANT....with Nick Cage filmed in Nola after Katrina....unusuall but good movie

[juan2fork]

Heidi, it was renewed for a second season. I kinda like it. I'm a NOLA native living elsewhere in the state.

[I B Hankering]

@ Heidi The creators of ‘Treme’ were also behind ‘The Wire’, which was an excellent series.

I enjoy most of the characters in ‘Treme’. John Goodman is good. The fiddle player, in real life, is an Italian girl from New York who trained professionally as a violin player. I find her ‘Treme’ character exotically attractive—her clothes and the swaying of her body—when she plays. Wendell Pierce, who plays Antoine Bastiste in ‘Treme’ (also starred in ‘The Wire’), is from New Orleans, and he made the extra effort to learn how to play the trombone to make his character more credible. I think he is doing an excellent job. The show is worth watching.

@ Dallas The original ‘Bad Lieutenant’ (1992) starred Harvey Keitel. I haven’t seen the new one yet, but I look forward to it based on your recommendation.

[stavinChain]

Originally Posted by heidilynnla

All these Hollywood types want to come to our city and give such a distorted perspective of what happens here. This one will be off the air as fast as K-Ville.

I like it. HBO apparently liked it too since they OK'd a second season. It's not for everyone. It's fiction, not a documentary.

One of the executive producers, Eric Overmeyer, has owned a house in New Orleans for 20 years. In my humble opinion, I think they've gone out of their way to make it somewhat authentic. But it is HBO, after all, not the History Channel. And they've got to 'sell' it to the rest of the world, not us locals.

Personally, I've wondered since day one if the rest of the country 'gets' the idea of Mardi Gras Indians, Second Lines, and Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs. Hell, I don't even think folks in Metairie understand them.

In a recent interview, one of the people associated with the show said that they're putting around 2 million dollars in the pockets of local musicians this year. I doubt they're complaining too much.

Just my two cents.

[VeronicaMoore]

It's truly one of the most "authentic" portrayals of NOLA I have ever seen. I love it. Being involved somewhat in the NOLA music scene for a while, it's nice seeing so many people I know on TV now that I'm not in the city anymore.

There are only maaaaaaybe one or two things (that I noticed, anyway) that weren't totally realistic. I can tell they definitely put a lot of thought and research time into Treme.

Davis is a favorite character of mine since he's pretty much exactly like EVERY ONE of the Tulane trust-fund kids I know. LOL. It's so real!

[heidilynnla]

Well maybe I should try to see it from the beginning.

[Jacquie]

Yeah, I agree about Davis. He's my favorite. Yeah, he is like every Uptown brat I've ever met.

I really enjoy the show. The cinematography is pretty amazing imo.

I think all the characters are pretty fantastic representations of types of people I've met from New Orleans. Of course, it's fiction, so their traits will be compacted and exaggerated. One of my clients and I were talking about Davis's aunt, who seemed to dead on with those smarmy martini drinking female elders of the city.

People complain of the references, but those I've met from New Orleans are packed full of those, because they're proud of the details and tradition (however small) of their city. There's nothing wrong with that, and I find it enchanting!

[ANONONE]

One thing you have to say about Davis, like him or hate him, he loves his city.

[hammernilla]

David Simon is brilliant, and the first season came out pretty good. I however did find several cringe moments at how often they tried to pour new orleans down your throat. Street names after Street names and the whole red beans and it a'int even monday shit.

But I suppose being a city that gets so much money from tourists we have always had the love hate relationship with out of towners perception of us. Overall it's nice to read an HBO love letter to home but between this and katrina give new orleans 10 years and we'll have turned into austin. HIPSTERS!