It hasn’t taken long for Treme to take it’s hold on me. By the end of this week’s episode I was deeply into each character’s storyline. None of them feel like stock characters to me. They seem original, quirky and real — very complete. Yet at the same time, they are […]
From David Simon’s letter to the people of New Orleans:
Pablo Picasso famously said that art is the lie that shows us the truth….
By referencing what is real, or historical, a fictional narrative can speak in a powerful, full-throated way to the problems and issues of our time. And a wholly imagined tale, […]
I’m a huge The Wire fan, in fact my first post to this blog — which remains one of the most popular — is a breakdown the pilot of the The Wire. I think Simon is one of the masters working in the TV industry now and I particularly admire his work because he bends […]
Treme, from David Simon creator of The Wire, is premiering on HBO on April 11th. I can’t wait. I went over to the HBO Canada web site to watch some video but was totally disappointed by the piddly offerings which weren’t even embeddable (#fail, #fail, #fail).
At HBO US the offerings are better… and embeddable — […]
