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.....

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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?

In John Goodman’s last scene in the show he has a different haircut and color. They write it off with a single line that gets ignored by Goodman’s character.

What project was Goodman working on at the time where he had that haircut and Color and couldn’t change it for Treme.

I'm watching for the second time and still in S1. Because she endures so much more in the next season, I forgot the way she refused to tell anyone about Daymo being found for almost a week. IDK if I think it was the right thing to do; I don't believe in judging people's reactions to situations like that, I just admire the way she stood up to the officer from the coroner's office, and I find it incredible that she held on to that secret. I understand why she wanted to keep it from her mother, but I expected her to tell Larry, at least. It's one of the wildest storylines I've ever seen in anything, and Khandi Alexander knocks it out of the park.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utw4zjNENHo

I lived in East New Orleans and worked in St Bernard Parish when Katrina hit. I was there at a hospital for five days after the storm before we were air evacuated by the State Guard on helicopters.

Treme captures the event and the aftermath perfectly and only Five Days at Memorial on Apple even comes close to it.

Please watch both out of respect for all that died in that hurricane.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utw4zjNENHo

When Arnie first moved in, Annie asks how long he would be staying with them. I think this is just because she finds it awkward to be sharing such a tiny apartment with a stranger and not because she dislikes him. In fact, I think it’s a red herring.

Arnie gets straight to work, and Sonny is surprised by how much money the Texan makes working on roofs. Arnie gives Sonny some rent money, saying he’d give more, but he wants to save up for a room of his own so he could get out of their hair.

But Sonny’s not concerned with Arnie getting out of their hair. In fact, Sonny quickly goes from helping Arnie out to asking Arnie for help getting High. He doesn’t say it out right, but I get the vibe Sonny’s thinking “you can stay as long as you want, bro.”

After the second line shooting, Annie is crying, Arnie is smoking a cigarette while musing on the shooting (my interpretation anyways), but Sonny is just staring at Arnie, likely thinking “i want to ask him for more money so I can get High again, and THIS is why Arnie is asked to leave.

It’s not Annie who wants him to leave because during the shooting, Arnie looks after Annie. And before he leaves, she nods at him, which I interpreted as “thank you. You’re good people.” Sonny was fighting to break his addiction, he couldn’t even console Annie because his mind was on getting high (that’s what him staring at Arnie represents) and he thought he would have no chance of getting better if he could get money from Arnie anytime he wanted it. When he asks Arnie to leave, he likely blames it on Annie, but it’s just because he doesn’t want to say “I can’t resist asking you for drug money.”

This is all my interpretation anyway. I made a post a few years ago about my interpretation of Creighton’s storyline, and I enjoyed the conversations that came from that post. I wish this show had as large of a following as the wire. It truly “deserves” it. But as Snoop would say, “Deserve's got nothing to do with it"

What an incredible show. I’m a huge fan of The Wire, and I honestly think this is the stronger of the two as far as the complexity and overall coverage of the subject of the place and time.

The characters and storylines drew in and seduced me as the show went on, I found it impossible to stop watching when I hit the last 10 episodes. Absolutely amazing work. David Simon is the GOAT.

Any input on which Treme DVD sets have the best commentaries? I'm on ebay looking to purchase, but often the sellers don't list all the info. Does every Treme DVD put out have commentary?

Now I've got to find my DVD player. I have one I bought to convert my vhs, but it's in a closet in a box somewhere.

Edit: Here is the actual commentary list -

Anyone have a favorite?

https://tvacdb.sandboxen.com/series/Treme

Had a customer reach out recently about finding out about my company via this subreddit. So here I am offering a 25% code if y’all want any of our shirts. We had a few on the show.

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I'm looking for links to the Commentary. I checked HBO, they don't have them. I looked to see if Netflix was streaming Treme, but it isn't. I checked my library - they don't have Treme streaming.( They don't have the DVDs either.) I would buy the boxed set of DVDs, but I don't have a DVD player. I don't know anyone who still has one. My laptop doesn't have one. I don't have a blue ray player.

I found a list of all the commentaries:

https://tvacdb.sandboxen.com/series/Treme

I could listen while watching HBO. Anyone know where I could find them?

Thanks.

I started with The Deuce as it aired on HBO. Loved it, had never seen anything like it. Then I dove head first into The Wire about a month ago and finished it in 2 weeks. It blew me away. Now I’m watching Treme. The more I watch, the clearer it is that David Simon is not just a badass writer and show runner. The man is a motherfucking anthropologist. His shows are concentrated case studies of cities and the people who make them, in a given period of time. And he gets it right every time. I watch a lot of TV and have seen a lot of really great series. But ain’t nobody got anything on Simon.

Edited to add: To those who are downvoting this post, care to elaborate on why you disagree? I would love to hear your perspective.

I HATE what they did with John Goodman’s character.

I get that that storyline was based off a true story.

I get where they were going with it and the buildup.

But it just feels like they really did that character, and Goodman himself, dirty.

I've seen Spanish, but not Italian. Thanks.

Just watched the Monk episode where Zahn plays Monk’s ne’er-do-well half brother. This role must’ve clinched the DJ Davis role for him as both characters are so alike and Zahn played them pretty similarly. I even laughed when he described his gf as ‘friend with benefits’.