re: Treme- 2nd episode tonight

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shitty musicians like Allen Toussaint, Galactic and Trombone Shorty. If only they'd just use Kings of Leon or Carrie Underwood they'd have a good sound track. lulz

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i'm glad you see my point. The only time i listen to "New Orleans-esque" type music is Mardi Gras time. I like Jazz, but New Orleans jazz isn't my type of thing. The 1st episode the music wasn't too bad. But this episode was too much music. I want to watch a tv show, not a concert. A little is fine, but i feel they are focusing too hard on the music, that it's actually taking away from the show.

That ain't it, Bug. It's just that idiot children sometimes are annoying even though you have sympathy for them. You are a case in point.

ETA: The "lost" inmate story is actually taken from real life and, in fact, happened more than once.

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It's just that idiot children sometimes are annoying even though you have sympathy for them. You are a case in point.

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Proving my point that you are not capable of having an adult conversation. Good job fella.

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Proving my point that you are not capable of having an adult conversation. Good job fella

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For the record, you are both e-babies who got their e-feelings hurt...

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For the record, you are both e-babies who got their e-feelings hurt...

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For the record, i didn't insult anyone because i didn't care for their choice in television shows.

Bug don't you think; music food culture crime are interwoven in NOLA? It seems cloying because an "Outsider" has noticed these things and represented them...I am likng this show remember ther's always a kernal of truth to a stereotype....

That's the point. The show is ABOUT musicians in Treme' and post Katrina N.O. It is ABOUT the indigenous food, music and culture. If someone doesn't find those things ineresting, they're not going to like the show. That's fine, but why are they watching at all? It is literally like me watching a Yankees-Red Sox game and complaining because I don't like baseball.

ETA: And to point to the elephant in the room, it's odd that people think the "bad cop" thing is overplayed in light of the Danziger Bridge shootings, police beatings on Bourbon St., and the "blockade" on the GNO Bridge.

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It is ABOUT the indigenous food, music and culture. If someone doesn't find those things ineresting, they're not going to like the show.

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again, i understand that. But the obvious ad placement was annoying. They zoomed in on the louisiana hot sauce bottle, they zoomed in on the community coffee cups.
Supporting the local establishments are all fine and good, but it comes off as tacky to do it in an obvious way as they did last night.

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The show is ABOUT musicians in Treme'

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which doesn't mean 1/3 of each episode has to show music being played

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It is ABOUT the indigenous food, music and culture. If someone doesn't find those things ineresting, they're not going to like the show.

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your vision of this show is just how i'd picture the nola-lover to picture it

you want a TLC special about everything that you can spin into a positive about nola

you want a documentary, when this is supposed to be a fictional series. you can't make a fictional series about music, as music is an identifiable, non-living thing. you can create a fiction about the people who made/play the music, but music itself is stale

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It is literally like me watching a Yankees-Red Sox game and complaining because I don't like baseball.

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a baseball game is a real event

your example is horrible

if you were watching a movie about somebody going to watch a baseball game, then you'd have an example

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The baseball analogy is, in fact, quite apt.

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no, it's not

a baseball game is a real event that is happening in live time

fever pitch is the correct comparison. a movie with a fictional story with baseball in the background

same as treme...a show with a fictional story with nola in the background