NP - Treme

Keith Davis kbob42 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 20 13:50:36 CDT 2012


Treme is good!
On Sep 20, 2012 2:40 PM, "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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