NP - Treme

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Thu Sep 20 13:54:06 CDT 2012


Right.  But I think Rich recently called it unwatchable.

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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