ThiefHott Too much of everything

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

letmereviewthis I have just finished the 2nd season but overall I do like the show. I felt the suicide of John Goodman's character was a bit forced. His daughter going off on a bit of a wild streak was a bit typical and I felt unnecessary. I don't really see the point of always having to have the young and naive girl who gets into trouble. I felt the character Sonny was just random and pointless. Chances are in New Orleans you will not meet someone from the Netherlands who is a struggling musician who obviously has undertones of yellow fever. The show should be about the locals and the main demographic that constitutes New Orleans which is not a Netherlands transplant. His random infatuation with the Vietnamese shrimper's daughter was out of nowhere and her returned interest was random. Most people would be uncomfortable when a random ex-dope fiend/ musician/fisherman is giving them a stare. She does not know how good of musician he is, at most possibly knows he is a helper on an oyster-boat and a dope fiend. The Vietnamese community is still shown as a foreign and reclusive element barely featured in the show but somehow the one shrimper's daughter is so enamored and interested in Sonny. Really?! Everyone is like that except for one girl?! The only element as mentioned earlier is the shrimper's daughter who randomly seems to have been hit by cupid's arrow for a dope fiend musician. LaDonna's character and the Chief were very inspirational and well played. Should have been less Sofia Bernette and less Netherlands ex-junkie and more of an inside look at the Vietnamese community and their stories. I mean the show is supposed to be about New Orleans. I don't know maybe they inserted Sofia's character and Sonny for demographic audience or something. NOLA has plenty of music, culture, history and struggles which all by the way is unique to that city! I love the show don't get me wrong but they could of done a better job representing NOLA. (Sidenote) just got through the episode after Sonny gets acquainted with the shrimper and then meets the daughter. I still get a very karate kid feel to it. Works for him one day then all of sudden he is cool and okay to date the guy's daughter. He was made to look like a jerk but he's really just like any other protective father. By the way I can't finish the series. I stopped I mean it has great potential but it's becoming filled with too much nonsense drama and too many musical performances. Don't get me wrong the performers are great but it ruins the mood of the show. Like they are trying to crack down on city corruption like in "The Wire" but then they try to also do its culture within the music and food. A lot of the episodes are also fettered with unnecessary drama. I feel there needs to be more of a connection between the culture and city with the government. It was obviously apparent in Season 1 but now its like three mini shows in one. "Kitchen Confidential" with some of "The Wire" and then like NOLA version of ACL with live performances. They need to connect everything together not just to have them coincidentally being in the same scene.

formala44 I like David Simon, Wendell Pierce and Clarke Peters a lot. Very talented men. However, maybe its a good idea for these men to get their heads examined. What an awful TV-series Treme is.Treme is one big Jazz music commercial. The only thing happening in the series, aside the few very thin other stories, is parties, music. Its like Fame revisited. A few minutes blablablabla, and off it goes again.I used to like jazz. Now I wont play it for a decade, thanks to this overkill. Always wondered whether to visit new Orleans, but now im sure I wont. Ever. One episode of Mardi Gras is already very hard to stomach, but each and every season an entire episode devoted to carnival?And Michiel Huisman? Why on earth is his wooden acting in anything TV related? And, like in The Wire, why does a uber fit, well groomed guy play a junkie? David Simon shame on you. Go home and do nothing for a year. In the dungeon, together with that idiot Werner Herzog.

jfcthejock I've watched Treme up to episode three already, and I must say its addictive to watch just like The Wire and The Sopranos. The characters seem to work so well, and the writing of David Simon is evident with many scenes and even the way the characters of New Orleans speak. Treme is set three months after the city of New Orleans was hit by hurricane Katrina, and the subsequent flooding of the city followed. Many people are still missing, and have not been found or recovered. Some houses still have dead bodies inside them, and water and electricity to some areas seems to be a luxury to some.We meet a range of characters, from down on their luck musicians who are looking for their next gig to make ends meet with their bills to property owners still awaiting for insurance to pay out on their homes or businesses. We see the sense of hope lost, with nothing really around helping the people of the city off their knees. We see quite authentic sets, even parts of the city still obviously affected by the flooding. As families search for brothers, sisters and even mothers who are still to be found since the flooding.The soundtrack of Treme, is loyal to the idea of original music of New Orleans. The Blues and Jazz is what makes New Orleans so original, the music, the atmosphere, the culture all of it. We are hit with a range of emotions watching Treme. Anger at how the government reacted to the disaster and how they just made it worse, sympathy for those who lost during the floods, and shock at the state of the city and how the people in it are treated by the police and the rest of the government. The sets are authentic of the city, and state of authority is obvious to be not working. Although i'm only at episode three now, the rest of this series is keeping me interested in the characters and their plight.

Pamela Series TV is some of the best written, best acted, and all around best filmed entertainment out there these days. I have loved Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy, Dexter, and Boardwalk Empire in 2010. But Treme tops my list of favorites. Of all these excellent shows, Treme has been the one I've loved the most, the one I've watched over and over and still haven't tired of, the one I'll be buying the Season 1 set of.I guess I love it for three reasons. I do enjoy a good character study, and these characters are all wonderful, non-stereotyped, and fascinating. Davis may be my favorite, but it's a tough pick.I'm a pretty big music fan, especially blues, and every episode is crammed full of goodies of all kinds and before you know it you're thinking, "well I'll be damned, that's Elvis Costello" or somebody else real in the musical lower stratosphere.I'm not from New Orleans. Only visited a couple of times, but the meld of cultures and history that has produced the uniqueness of New Orleans has always fascinated me and I greatly enjoy being smack in that city via these episodes.I'm happy to read reviews from locals who testify to the accuracy of the show. It feels true, but just like accents, if you don't or haven't lived in the middle of it for a long time, you can't really tell if it's absolutely true blue or not.I'm hoping Treme will pick up some steam with Season 2. Season 1 seems to have gotten good reviews, but not a lot of fan-follow. There isn't much chatter about it on the HBO message boards, nor anywhere else I've seen. This show is way, way too good to end anytime soon.