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The second season of one of the best TV shows about the city of New Orleans is under way. Follow along with WWOZ's reactions to the show on our blog, and join in the discussion with other fans and critics of the show in our Treme forum.

Latest Blog Posts about HBO's Treme

Treme, Episode 14: Santa Claus Do You Ever Get the Blues?

Authored by: David Freedman
Submitted: Mon, 05/23/2011 - 11:32am
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New York City is getting a bum rap! We’ve watched the theme as it slowly develops in the Simon psyche – this New York vs. New Orleans thing. New York’s glowering chef Enrico Brulard (based on real-life kitchen nazi David Bouley) verbally abusing poor Janette Desautels (real life Susan Spicer?) who valiantly suffers in exile (“Listen to the fish!”).
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Treme, Episode 13 (Season 2, Episode 3): On Your Way Down

Authored by: David Freedman
Submitted: Fri, 05/13/2011 - 4:33pm
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Was so dead tired from Jazz Fest (the true mark of a Fest well spent) that I fell asleep both times I tried to watch this week’s ‘sode--will try to catch up in future blogs on what promises to be a descent into the heart of darkness in the weeks to come.

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Treme, Episode 12 (Season 2, Episode 2): Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky

Authored by: David Freedman
Submitted: Wed, 05/04/2011 - 11:13am
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We had had a full day at Jazz Fest and were exhausted as we sat among 30 or so fellow Treme followers, faithfully keeping our appointment to keep an eye on how our self-portrait was coming along, dinners in our laps, in the front room of Bywater’s Country Club.

The experience was far different from any of Treme I’d ever seen before.

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Treme, Episode 11 (Season 2, Episode 1): Accentuate the Positive

Authored by: David Freedman
Submitted: Mon, 04/25/2011 - 1:24pm
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Pitch Perfect!

So many of the images in the opening episode of HBO’s 2nd season’s premier of Treme resonate with the pictures of New Orleans that I carry in my mind’s eye--an eye that has been richly provisioned by this city over a lifetime.

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Anticipation of Season Two of HBO's Treme from WWOZ's General Manager

Authored by: David Freedman
Submitted: Mon, 04/25/2011 - 1:23pm
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With the new season of Treme starting up, one thing that I fret about from time to time is: how many of us will start playing ourselves, instead of just being ourselves? When we start representing our culture and music (and not just living it), we start down the road that ends in Disneyland, or some variation of it, with a roped off area for the tourists to visit to see how “we live” - or, make that "lived".
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