Treme

I loathe Sonny like no other character in a Simon show. He just sucks all around. Hope he gets the clap from that snowblowing whore he hooked up with.

 

Also, I should note this show is best watched with a cold Bud heavy in hand.

 

Really like the feel of the show, even when nothing special is going on. For me, they don't even really need a plot, I'd watch these people interact for an hour.
Also, had no idea Khandi Alexander could really act. Wow. All I ever saw her in was that idiotic CSI Miami, where she was the medical examiner who always dressed like she was about to do a floor show at a nightclub. This is quite different.

 

That is a bit strange, makes New Orleans seem like Mayberry in size.

The thing that's starting to get on my nerves, and this is just purely a personal thing, is the fact that there is really no sustainable plot. If you're not really interested in New Orleans or that culture, chances are the show won't keep you watching.

But as a previous poster said, the acting is pretty good and their interaction on camera makes it easy to watch.

 

Yeah, he's easily surpassed Cheese in my book (not to mention Valchek and Clay Davis). May he get a bullet in the head from Slim Charles ...

 

Guess nobody had much reaction to the season finale? Pretty good season overall. My wife gave up midway through. I enjoyed the languid pace, most of the characters, but mainly tuned in for the settings.

 

Liked every episode except the last one. The flashback sequence was jarring and really out of place for a David Simon production. It also added nothing to the narrative. The amount of time spent on what the Indians were doing was ridiculous. In the end, nothing remotely interesting happened to them.

I'd say the Mardi Gras episode was the strongest of the lot. Really captured the romance of the day.

 

I think cops and crime will get a heavy treatment in Season 2. The crime didn't really start to come back until the spring and early summer of 2006. Season 1 ended in March 2006 (St. Joseph's Day is March 19). They wouldn't have dropped an actor like David Morse in for a scene or two in Season 1 if he wasn't going to be a major player in Season 2.

As for the flashback, I think they did that to show how much everyone lost in the storm. It showed that people like Antoine weren't always living hand-to-mouth. It also gave a little back story for Daymo, and proved that the good things his sister said about him were right (i.e., he was a mostly responsible guy who just got caught up in the system).

I also liked that people like Davis and the Burnette family were treating the approaching Katrina like it was no big deal --- "it'll veer off at the last minute." That's exactly what a lot of people from the Gulf Coast (including me) thought.

And Ragu, the antagonist was Hurricane Katrina, plain and simple.

 

I was disappointed in the John Goodman character denouement. From the minute I heard him give that student such a fucked up take on "The Awakening," it was obvious what was coming. (The Awakening was all the shit when I was an English major in the mid-to-late '70s. The heroine kills herself because she can't stand to live in the society she's trapped in, not because she's ascending to some new level of existence or something.)

The Goodman character has a wonderful daughter (who will have to live the rest of her life with what he did) and a hard-working, valiant wife who doesn't seem to mind that he weighs 400 pounds and sits around the house all day pretending to write a novel.
Bigger asshole than Sonny, in my book.

Otherwise, as I said before, I kinda liked the meandering. And the music. I don't need people to be shooting each other every 5 minutes.