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  • Treme Sort-Of Review: Noblest Deeds

    Treme Sort-Of Review: Noblest Deeds

    I’m a fan, not a critic. Here’s my sort-of review: Episode 5: Shame, Shame, Shame Whose shame? Let’s find out. Ooh, Things are Getting Bleaker Not that a post-Katrina setting didn’t already provide a mess of a city for the characters play around in, of course. But up until now, Treme’s themes have tended more [...]

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  • Treme Sort-Of Review: Cry a River, You Feel the Need

    Treme Sort-Of Review: Cry a River, You Feel the Need

    I’m a fan, not a critic. Here’s my sort-of review: Episode 4: At the Foot of Canal Street It’s Christmastime in New Orleans, and we’re starting to see which characters are slowly resettling into what we assume to be their old, pre-Katrina patterns and which are creating new ones. (Photo: HarshLight) Antoine: New Orleans > [...]

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  • Treme Review – To Miss New Orleans

    Treme Review – To Miss New Orleans

    I’m afraid I must indulge my David Simon obsession for awhile here, and while you can obviously just ignore these posts if you don’t harbor a similar obsession and aren’t planning to watch his new series, Treme, I sure hope you don’t. Wouldn’t it be more fun to watch, too, and then we can all [...]

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