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Treme Wrap-Up: Musician, Know Thyself
[Spoiler Alert] After the first episode of Treme, someone on Twitter referred to Davis McAlary as the Jar Jar Binks of the show. The assessment’s brilliantly cold but wrong. Davis […]
Rob Brown: Learning to Love his Trumpet
Like Wendell Pierce, Rob Brown is forced to act with a horn on Treme. Delmond Lambreaux is a jazz trumpeter; Brown isn’t. Like Pierce, he’s forced to look convincing as […]
Treme Wrap-Up: Dealing with Death
Last week, I wondered if Dinneral Shavers had been sufficiently set up as a presence to make his death carry the weight in the show that it did in life, […]
Treme Wrap-Up: Time for Your Close-Up
[SPOILER ALERT] “The process don’t matter if you don’t get no result”—appropriate words from Albert Lambreaux, who could have been speaking for the city in late 2006 as easily as […]
Treme: The Ways Down
[Spoiler Alert] “On Your Way Down” was a fair title for this episode, but you sort of wish Alice Cooper was from New Orleans because “Welcome to My Nightmare” would […]
Last Night in Treme: Hot 8, Mem Shannon and Michael Hill
A few quick thoughts after this week’s Treme, which I thought was one of the better episodes in the series as a whole. Last week set the table; now we’re […]
Jazz Fest vs. Treme
[UPDATED] I know this is Jazz Fest time, but don’t forget to set your DVRs for Treme tonight. If you remain on the fence about the show, give it through […]
Reviews of the First Episode of Treme Season Two
On Sunday, HBO premiered season two of Treme with an episode called “Accentuate the Positive.” It is a fitting title as it has been getting positive reviews. Season two picks […]
Behind Treme’s Hard Season Opener
[Spoiler alert] As we learned late in season one of Treme, obsessing over the raw factuality of the show is dangerous. The clues were there as to what Creighton Bernette’s […]
Treme Season Two Starts Sunday
While the production company behind Treme has been embroiled in controversy over the preservation efforts for a row of Central City homes, it’s easy to forget that season two debuts […]
