I haven’t had HBO in donkey’s years, but I’m getting it specifically to watch Treme, which starts this Sunday. The combination of David Simon and New Orleans (probably my favorite city in the U.S.) is too good for me to pass up. A friend who’s seen the first 3 episodes said it’s an awesome portrait of NOLA, and Wendell Pierce (Bunk from The Wire) is great. I know there are some Wire fans here - anyone else pumped about this series?
God yes! It’s the main reason I resubbed to HBO.
Until I heard a David Simon interview yesterday, I thought Treme was pronounced “treem”. It’s tre-MAY.
How many episodes are we going to get?
I’m hoping 13, but the fact that David Mills (writer) just died might put a wrench in things - haven’t heard either way.
Going on the commercials alone, I’m definitely interested. Thanks for the reminder that it starts so soon; gotta get the dvr going!
I will definitely be watching, and will try to get my husband to weigh in on the authenticity of the brass bands.
I’ll give it a shot. Bunk is always awesome, I loveloveloved The Wire, and I do feel a certain connection to New Orleans after visiting there to work post-Katrina.
Alan Sepinwall reviews the first three episodes – Linky – there are no spoilers in the review.
It sounds like there wouldn’t be much to spoil. Sepinwall says Treme is more about character than plot. And we’ll see Dr. John! 
He’s the only New Orleans musician I’m even halfway familiar with.
I’m onboard. After The Wire, I have highest expectations for an HBO series from David Simon. We don’t have any type of DVR so we’ll likely watch it “On Demand” with closed-captioning enabled.
Thanks, AuntiePam, for the correct pronunciation. I had been wondering.
I didn’t have it quite right – Sepinwall says it’s “Truh-may”. He says Treme is the area of NO where jazz was born.
(Wonder why there’s no diacritical mark over the e.)
For some reason I keep confusing it with the movie Splice…
Bacause if you’re from down here, you just know it’s French. 
Enjoyed the first ep. Good to see Joanie Stubbs again. Had some trouble understanding some of the dialog: the NOLA patois can be pretty thick.
We DVRd it because we had to get up early this morning. Looking forward to watching it. Maybe will watch with subtitles on!
If it were, without any diacritic it would be pronounced as only one syllable, “trehm” (the -e being silent).
I thought it was fantastic.
It’s gonna take me a while to not think of Bunk and Lester as Bunk and Lester, though.
I thought it was great, too. Really glad they used so much music in it. And Kermit Ruffins did a great job, I thought.
I don’t want to go off topic too much, but I’d like to clarify my original, slightly in jest, remark. Here in south Lousiana, we do not use dicritic marks to show the “French” pronuctiation. If it ends in an “e” and is clearly of French origin, the “e” is pronounced as “a”. I don’t mean to sound snarky, but believe me, we just know.
Just like we know the “c” in LeBlanc is silent, “eaux” is pronounced “oh”, and the accent should be on the first syllable of the name Broussard.
Now back to your regularly scheduled program.
You’d think these people had never read a James Lee Burke novel, them.
People don’t know that? I grew up in Houston, and for somewhere not in Louisiana, the coon ass factor is pretty high.
For those of us who aren’t from the area, what does this mean?
I didn’t watch Sunday’s episode but I’ll check it out at some point. I’m definitely interested in the setting.