i think it’d be so cool to do a watch party of treme at a bar in treme. if someone could get that going i would never miss one. even a bacchanal!! idk i just would love to watch treme in a bar in nola.

I’m from New Orleans and escaped Katrina when I was 4 so this show is more personal than it otherwise would be. I’ve been watching all of David Simon’s works and so far have watched The Wire, The Corner, The Deuce, and We Own This City plus will get to Generation Kill, Show Me A Hero, and The Plot Against America. The plot with LaDonna’s deceased brother was already very depressing but to suddenly see Creighton die was both heartbreaking and not expected. I could tell he was depressed but never thought he would take his own life. Only on Season 1 Episode 10 but so much happened already. Sad thing is the city, almost 20 years later, still is struggling hard with housing costs, insurance, jobs, and constant hurricane damage which is why as much as I want to go back, there are so many risks.

Episode 7 Smoke My Peace Pipe

Episode 8 All on a Mardi Gras Day

Sorry . I'm not making it. It doesn't look like anyone else is posting the Watch Party tonight, so I will post tomorrow.

Thanks folks!

Hi!
Just finished watching the show (for the 1st time) and its so obvious that season 4 is stunted and some things had to have been dropped, characters barely appearing (budgetary and time reasons I guess), but which storyline were shortened or changed the most?
What plans were axed?

I heard David Simon mentioning Sonny specifically once, as someone who would have been fleshed out more, but at least he got his moment in the last episode.
A funeral episode might have been planned?

I don't know, the last season left me with a mixed feeling, it took me a while to really get into the show (probably late 2nd season), I thought season 3 was great, and then it just fizzles out in season 4...

I will be attending a wedding, so I won't be posting until tomorrow.

Episode 3 - Right Place, Wrong Time And 4 - At the Foot of Canal Stree

We are doing this again tonight 8Pm EST . (Folks couldn't pick a time , so I just stuck to this one.)

Join in tonight, or contribute during the week!

Thanks to all who contributed last week.

Tonight at 8 pm EST / 12 GMT

I am new to this , I hope I get it right.

Let's have fun discussing in real time. Only rule - be kind to each other ( not necessarily to the characters.) If you are going for irony, remember the /s. I got banned from a sub for a day because I assumed it was obvious. Apparently not.

laisse les bons moments rouler.

Well, how strange is it that the first night of our watch party there are people in my state trapped by floodwaters. Lakes and rivers have spilled their banks, dams are in danger of breaking.

I'm in the piedmont and suffered only broken tree branches, the creeks by me did not overflow. We worried about Duke Power releasing water into the lake, nothing like the terror of having all the phones in the house go off at 6 am, but we are fine. Other communities were evacuated.

The mountains though have suffered catastrophic damage. Many towns are decimated. The roads are blocked, I don't know for how long. Many can only be reached by air.

Apparently there are tourists who went on with their vacation plans despite the warnings and they are adding to the problems of an already strained rescue force.

For more information and ways to help, here is a link to Blue Ridge Public Radio.

https://x.com/BlueRidgePublic

https://www.bpr.org/

Edit: I'd like to add that Tennessee and other states have suffered as well.

8 pm EST / 12 GMT

I'm new at this and hope I'm setting this up correctly.

Let's have fun discussing the episode in real time.

The rule is : be kind to each other ( not necessarily to the fictitious characters.)

If you are going for irony, remember the /s. I got banned for a day from a sub because I thought it was obvious... Apparently not.

laisse les bons temps rouler.

I'm trying to organize a Treme watch party every Saturday until Saturday before Mardi Gras. The mod is ok with it.

I have questions - we could watch at the same time and comment during the watch. This would be fun, but we are in different time zones. If people could comment on what time works best for them , it would be helpful.

Or we could just pin the day and people will discuss when they like.

Or both.

We could also come up with some creative games - a bingo game ? - leaving that for anyone else.

These are the dates - every Saturday until Saturday before Mardi Gras. No one has to commit to all. I'm not sure I can commit to all.

Sep 28, 2024: Episodes 1, 2

Oct 5, 2024: Episode 3, 4

Oct 12, 2024: Episodes 5, 6

Oct 19, 2024: Episode 7,8

Oct 26, 2024: Episodes 9,10

Nov 2, 2024: Episode 11, 12

Nov 9, 2024: Episodes 13,14

Nov 16, 2024: Episode 15

Nov 23, 2024: Episodes 16,17

Nov 30, 2024: Episode 18

Dec 7, 2024: Episodes 19, 20

Dec 14, 2024: Episode 21

Dec 21, 2024: Episodes 22, 23

Dec 28, 2024: Episode 24

Jan 4, 2025: Episodes 25 ,26

Jan 11, 2025: Episode 27

Jan 18, 2025: Episodes 28, 29

Jan 25, 2025: Episode 30

Feb 1, 2025: Episodes 31, 32

Feb 8, 2025: Episode 33

Feb 15, 2025: Episodes 34, 35

Feb 22, 2025: Episode 36

Thanks.

Anyone up for an online rewatch party? The whole sub together. I'm thinking every week and ending at Mardi Gras?( Someone else will have to do the math!)

We could do a post for each episode of the week. And we could discuss in the comments.

Any ideas? Anyone interested?

Most of us have already seen it once, but this would be like old school before streaming where we watched the same episode and then discussed around the water cooler ( showing my age.)

I usually rewatch again around Mardi Gras anyway. This would add a new dimension to it. Like a book club.

I'm open to different ways of doing it. I just thought I'd throw it out there, see whose interested.

Thanks.

Edit: I left a message with BauerUK mod.

What do you all think - with different time zones is a simultaneous watch even possible? Or we just watch whatever time we can on a Saturday and then comment.

I'd like to figure out a way to create a fun game - like bingo cards, but am getting out of my league here. What kind of entries would they be?

Ideas?

Just started watching this excellent series and had a question about the photo debate between Antoine Baptiste and his Japanese benefactor that takes place in the the music store right before the trombone purchase.

What photo were they referring to and who was "right"?

When Janette closed her restaurant for good, ignoring the ringing phone, she takes a bottle (I’m guessing another Conterno) and a clear plastic container of some white powdery balls of something? What were those? Mozzarella pearls? Raw hush puppies? What? I must know! Lol

Am I taking crazy pills? I'm rewatching Treme and there have been a few critical scenes missing. Anyone else notice this?

If you're a Catholic are you allowed to have a second line funeral?

I just started watching the show. In season one a big theme is that things are not and will never be the same. The essence of the place lost forever. Creighton voices this the most.

I visited New Orleans in early 2020. Had a great time. The show gives me this gnawing feeling that I made a huge mistake not going there in my early 20s pre Katrina.

If any long time residents of New Orleans could weigh in, that'd be great.

And yeah I'm waiting for Davis's redemption. I thought he'd chill after getting punched in the face.

I've never disliked a character as much as I can't stand Davis. He's downright annoying! I'm loving the series. What is the purpose of Davis?

John Goodman is phenomenal and we can often count on anything he's in being phenomenal as well. Looking for a show to casually binge in the background, I decided to try the Conners.

The fact that it still has a laugh track should have been warning enough, sigh.

I sometimes feel as if I'm absolutely not made of the same stuff as the majority of my fellow Americans. This show is such a waste of John Goodman's talent. Knowing it's popular while so many folks were not interested in Treme blows my mind.

The Conners' script is dated and shallow, the laugh track jarring, the format where everything is resolved in a half hour, just plain stupid. I have no idea why this is still on after 6 seasons. Is the demographic of the show people in their 70s looking for a remake of "Happy Days"?

I have a ridiculous fantasy that we some day get a reboot of Treme, and Goodman is resurrected. He is such a great talent.

In the meantime I'll continue to watch Goodman on the Righteous Gemstones and look forward to another rewatch of Treme every Mardi Gras.

It always sticks out to me when I see Barqs and no other type of soda..

MIGHTAAAAAAAAY!!!! COOTY FIYO.....

Indian Reeeeeed
Indian Red

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I first watched Treme a couple years back, getting through the first two seasons before losing my HBO hookup. Now with the MAX add-,on through Prime I've restarted from the beginning and just finished season 3.

I gotta say, Kermit Ruffins is just soooooo infinitely likeable, it almost feels like I'm man-crushing here. Throwing Davis the Bar Mitzvah gig, helping Antoine out with good paying gigs earlier in the series, and his good natured handling of Antoine's hilarious "grand theft - audience" stunt.... He just seems like about the nicest guy ever. I suspect (and hope) that this is indeed how he really is in life. As a supporting-supporting character, he really makes every scene he's in.

I'm doing another rewatch - I have it on in the background while I'm working on hobbies. I really could have gone with a couple more seasons. I like slice of life dramas - I don't need the entire world's problems resolved in 30 minutes. Long arcs are fine by me.

I still can't understand how dumb CSI type programs or brainless reality dating shows get so many seasons. I'm frightened for what it says about us.

I played some songs from the soundtrack for a friend recently and they were flabbergasted to hear many folks complained that the music was a turn off. Too much music... Sigh. I suppose in the future everything will be a quick TIKTOK video.

My thanks to the folks who made this series possible.

There were video extras for the show for a while:

• music videos for s1 and s2
• previously on…
• next time on…
• behind the scenes
• the poet from s2 when Davis discovers little calliope

The music videos were available on iTunes. The other bits were available as videocasts. I downloaded them all to my iPad Air 1 at the time and think I still have them. But iTunes pulled the videocasts. And I never saw the boxed set DVDs saying it came with extra videos.

Anyone know if they still exist somewhere?