NP - Treme

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Thu Sep 20 13:40:41 CDT 2012


I understand that some find "Treme" a slog, but for us locals it rings
TRUE to our everyday experience.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/treme-season-3-premiere-12892938

David Simon always has provided the best political entertainment on
television. This is because Simon seems to realize something that has
eluded almost everyone else working in the medium — and, alas, far too
many people actually working in politics and almost all of the people
who cover them: David Simon shows, from The Wire to Treme and even
Homicide, have at their essential heart the realization that politics
is simply humanity writ large and noisy, and that every interaction
between members of the human herd is essentially a political one. And,
not for nothing, but that notion has a certain intellectual provenance
in that Aristotle thought of it first.



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