re: Treme Finale: Flashback Scene

You know what I do really like about the show, the more I think about it:

How they pick and choose what major interactions/events to show us on camera? I think this is intentional because in these events if the acting wasn't 100% spot-on, we'd be focused on that aspect and not the heaviness that comes from them.

Examples:
-Ladonna communicating about her brother's death to her mother
-Goodman's character jumping
-Toni telling their daughter about Creighton's death
-Antoine seeing the empty bed, but not the interaction where he gets the confirmation from the Doctor that his instructor is dead

The scenes they do show us like Ladonna at the morgue and Toni going through the glove box/wallet were amazing.

On a personal note, I can really relate to the struggles that Janette and Delmond were going through in the last few episodes. In June 2006, I had enough and left New Orleans for a better job. Without a doubt the hardest decision that I will ever make in my life. Every time that I go back to New Orleans to see my family now, waiting at MSY airport for the departing flight is always a pretty emotional moment for me.

any new ratings numbers?

i searched and didn't find any, but did find this review which sums up why i stopped watching about a month ago:

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But still. I wonder if Simon and his stable of crack writers have fallen victim to the last thing I thought they would: sentimentality. Treme spent an awful lot of time revisiting this basic idea: “New Orleans is a wonderful and unique place. The people there love it. Tourists and visitors initiated into its mysteries love it. Our characters love it too. They never want to leave, and those who do leave are inevitably pulled back into its embrace. Because (did we tell you?) New Orleans is wonderful.”

This is a perfectly fine point as far as it goes. If you present it with some wry charm, great. If you use it as an entry point for a character’s individual drama, fine. But in a 10-hour season, it too often became the predominant point, and when it did the show slipped from drama into self-congratulation.

This is, interestingly, a feature of New Orleans itself – something the show obviously gets. New Orleans’s outsized self-esteem, given its many problems, is charming but dangerous: the city can be self-absorbed, dissolute, corrupt.

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no clue man, haven't watched in a long time.

any ratings numbers?

cool, thanks.

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any ratings numbers?

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you should contact all your HBO friends

George Sells and Jay Grimes making a cameo was fiya

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But, I was waiting for his wife to go identify the body, and then for her to say that it wasn't him.

When they didn't even do a body identification scene (like they did for Day-Mo),

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But that is a whole different thing. Day-mo was lost in jail and no one could find him, that was the story and they followed it all the way throughout. Creighton's death was completely different. I kinda knew it was coming; after he finishes eating like a glutton, and then going do all the New Orleans type things, I had a feeling it was coming.

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Examples:
-Ladonna communicating about her brother's death to her mother
-Goodman's character jumping
-Toni telling their daughter about Creighton's death
-Antoine seeing the empty bed, but not the interaction where he gets the confirmation from the Doctor that his instructor is dead

The scenes they do show us like Ladonna at the morgue and Toni going through the glove box/wallet were amazing.

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These are good points. I thought Toni was SO real in how she portrayed her emotions over the last 2 episodes.

For me, the best line from Treme this season from the 2nd to last episode was this (being born and raised there, this just sounded SO spot on for the moment):

"Just pick up the money, Ledonna - stop talking shite. You need to bury yo damn brother."

Hated the twist with John Goodman, although I guess he was too big of a star to be a regular for next season.

And finally, I HATE the whole plot line with Annie and her greaseball boyfriend......not sure what that adds to the show. Her furrowed brow makes me nauseous anymore.

Totally agree about David Morse too He is so strong.