The story lines in “Treme” begin three months after Katrina, and they follow a diverse group of characters as they rebuild their lives in a city torn apart, a city in which tens of thousands of houses are abandoned, in which only 50 percent of the population remains, in which neighborhoods are still without power. The main characters in “Treme” aren’t the overburdened cops, spiraling addicts, ruthless dealers, struggling dockworkers, corrupt politicians or compromised journalists of “The Wire.” In their place, for the most part, are musicians.
I watched this entire season hours after having all 4 of my impacted wisdom teeth removed. I remember enjoying it, but can't remember any plot specifics at all. So much so, that when I watched the premier of season 7, I went back to see if I had actually watched season 5 instead of 6.
The Avon Barksdale Story- Legends Of The Unwired...won Best Docudrama at this year’s NY International Independent Film & Video Festival...In The Avon Barksdale Story, the real Nathan Avon “Bodie” Barksdale tells all to actor Wood Harris, who played his on screen character in HBO’s critically acclaimed series The Wire.
True Blood was exciting and creative for the first 8 or 9 episodes until it turned into Vampire Veronica Mars. For some reason, I didn't pick up on the fact that the murders were the overarching theme of the show until it was too late. And then I just got mad because I learned to despise Veronica Mars something fierce.
What better way to start Monday morning than 5 links about The Wire, 2 of which come from TVTattle.
In this article, David Simon talks about an idea for a new project about the CIA. Yes, please. Also discussed is his project on the fight for desegregation in Yonkers' public housing and what happened after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Also, I must have known about the Treme (pronounced trah-may) pilot, but can't remember hearing about it. It's about New Orleans post-Katrina and is heavy in the music.
Here are 12 interviews between stars of the show and Hobo Trashcan.
While this where are they now is a bit depressing. Would expect some of these folks to get more than guest roles on police procedurals.
Finally, this last link from The Daily Record has a headline saying "Cops use skills from TV show The Wire to trap drug dealers", but then goes on to describe what sounds like a normal police bust. Unless, of course, cops in Scotland spent preceding years using different techniques like "just ask the bad guys to come in" and "pretend there's no crime."
Bonus link: Of course, the above link might stem from the fact that the UK is supposedly going through The Wire fever since it just started airing terrestrially on BBC2 at the end of March.
You could tell Generation Kill was written by the guys who did the Wire because of the military specific jargon. Also, because I wanted to watch it all at once and when it was over, I wanted desperately to see more. Of course, being as hard boiled as they are, though, viewer discretion is advised.
Season 5 already? I like this show, and you will too if you enjoy fantastical adventures of a Hollywood star and his gang, filled with camaraderie and bonhomie. My wife asked why I like Entourage and the explanation is it's the best example of friends ripping on each other on TV.
We may not get HBO, but that hasn't stopped me from watching the first two episodes of True Blood. (I won't say how, but it rhymes with Schmitt Schmorrent.) Here are my thoughts so far:
Vampires! Neat!
HBO seems to have contracted out the costume design for Anna Paquin's character to Maxim.
The show definitely seems to be taking advantage of the fact that it's on HBO for some gratuitous nudity—except for the main characters, of course. In fact, I think the only female character to get topless so far is dead. Nice slut shaming, Alan Ball.
The main characters, Sookie and Bill, are both very strange personalities, which makes all of their pipe-laying exposition dialogue less awkward, but still awkward.
True Blood vampires "vamp out" much more delicately than Buffy vampires. After being used to the Buffy game faces, the little fang "snikt!" is kind of hilarious.
Come to think of it, I'm choosing to interpret the introductory fake-out scene as a Buffy homage.
Sookie's brother is such an over-the-top douchebag, it's hilarious. His self-congratulatory mirror-point while having sex with his girlfriend was laugh-out-loud funny. (I LOL'd!)
This show picks up in the middle of the story in a kind of unusual way. It's really refreshing to watch a vampire story that doesn't start with several weeks of the characters all running around in denial about the fact that vampires exist, or having to keep the existence of vampires a secret. In fact, none of the supernatural elements are kept secret, and the discovery of the supernatural isn't part of the plot at all. Bill's the first vampire in town, but everyone knows what to expect. Sookie's friends all know she's psychic. Saves a lot of time.
The two episodes I've seen have been pretty enjoyable. I'm looking forward to seeing how they spell out all of the abilities and weaknesses of the vampires, the history of their going public, and so on. I'll watch more!
Wednesday night at 4:00 AM, J woke me up and said, "Someone's ringing the doorbell." I was so asleep, I didn't know what a doorbell was. And when I finally understood what the doorbell was, I remember thinking "that's strange, we don't have a doorbell".
The last couple times our doorbell has rung in the middle of the night, it's been the cops letting us know we had parked somewhere we shouldn't have and 'here's a $100 ticket.' Anyway, this time the police were singing a different tune. They said our car had been broken into... I don't know how to explain what that's like, going from dead asleep, to wondering what a doorbell was, to thinking we didn't have one, to hearing our car had been broken into.
I went downstairs to find a cruiser with its headlights pointed at our car and a cop who looked like he was in high school. Right as I got down there, the cop set the alarm off by unlocking the door from the inside and I had to run up to grab the keys I should have brought down originally. Fascinatingly enough, the alarm doesn't go off when someone throws a double brick through your window, but unlocking the door from the inside is all hands on deck.
Apparently a neighbor (the neighbor, incidentally, whose handicapped spot we and several guests parked in over and over last year because it's incredibly unwell marked) had heard someone trying to break into his car and woken up. He then saw them throw a brick though our side window and chased them down the street before calling the cops.
Whoever broke in stole the GPS out of the glove compartment. They must have been in a hurry, though, because they left the stand and when they ripped the chord out, half of it stayed in the cigarette lighter.
J called Commerce Insurance (two thumbs up!) in the morning and Giant Glass was there within 3 hours installing a new window. Commerce sent us a check yesterday for the GPS. All in all, not too bad, and obviously it could of been worse.
To the knuckleheads who stole the GPS: "Hey assholes, thanks for throwing a brick through my window. Have fun with the 3 year old GPS featuring outdated maps, no stand, and no charger. See how much you get for it. Idiots."
In the Esquire article about Roger Ebert a few weeks back, Ebert mentioned his interview interview with Lee Marvin as one of his favorites, and now they've republished it online.
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