# Treme (HBO Series) - Anybody gonna be watching? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 6, 2010, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treme-hbo-series-anybody-gonna-be-watching/535215 "2010-04-06T23:31:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treme-hbo-series-anybody-gonna-be-watching/535215/21 "2010-04-13T04:30:44Z")
Missed the first half hour but it’s on the DVR. There wasn’t a single scene that I didn’t want to watch again. I didn’t have any trouble with the dialect – didn’t notice much, actually. Are there a lot of different New Orleans accents? I read or heard somewhere that there are about 30 “authentic” accents. There doesn’t seem to be much of a plot, but I’m fine with that. These are interesting people and it’ll be cool just to spend time with them. I’ve never been to New Orleans so I don’t know if they’re capturing the flavor, but it seems like they are. ---
**Author:** ![Lethal\_Babydoll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3be4f8/32.png) [@Lethal\_Babydoll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lethal_Babydoll)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treme-hbo-series-anybody-gonna-be-watching/535215/22 "2010-04-13T11:25:23Z")
boring ---
**Author:** ![zeldarae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/f14d63/32.png) [@zeldarae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zeldarae)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treme-hbo-series-anybody-gonna-be-watching/535215/23 "2010-04-13T11:50:54Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > For those of us who aren’t from the area, what does this mean? Coonass is considered by polite society to be a derogatory term for Cajun. We have reclaimed the phrase, however, and only we can call each other by that word. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treme-hbo-series-anybody-gonna-be-watching/535215/24 "2010-04-13T12:24:51Z")
> [@zeldarae](#): > > Coonass is considered by polite society to be a derogatory term for Cajun. We have reclaimed the phrase, however, and only we can call each other by that word. 😉 And another implication is that there are still a lot of displaced NO residents in Houston. ---
**Author:** ![zeldarae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/f14d63/32.png) [@zeldarae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zeldarae)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treme-hbo-series-anybody-gonna-be-watching/535215/25 "2010-04-13T12:46:26Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > And another implication is that there are still a lot of displaced NO residents in Houston. Actually the greater Houston area, due to the oil industry, has long had Louisiana natives migrating there…since right after WWII, well before Katrina. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treme-hbo-series-anybody-gonna-be-watching/535215/26 "2010-04-14T17:19:34Z")
Can someone who knows more about New Orleans culture than I do explain what the deal is with the chiefs and the crazy flowery indian outfit? I was a bit lost then (and I agree, it will be hard not to call that character Lester Freamon and that other character Bunk). Very very entertaining, though, although it took me a while to get into it. My total lack of interest in Jazz probably doesn’t help. I love Bunk’s constant minor hustling of the cab drivers. ---
**Author:** ![zeldarae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/f14d63/32.png) [@zeldarae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zeldarae)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treme-hbo-series-anybody-gonna-be-watching/535215/27 "2010-04-14T17:35:31Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > Can someone who knows more about New Orleans culture than I do explain what the deal is with the chiefs and the crazy flowery indian outfit? This might help [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardi\_Gras\_Indians](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardi_Gras_Indians) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treme-hbo-series-anybody-gonna-be-watching/535215/28 "2010-04-14T21:24:09Z")
> [@Lethal\_Babydoll](#): > > boring How terribly insightful of you. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2010, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treme-hbo-series-anybody-gonna-be-watching/535215/29 "2010-04-16T13:43:39Z")
At the risk of appearing uninsightful, I thought the premiere dragged a bit in places. It definitely wasn’t bad, and I’ll continue to watch—it took a few episodes of _The Wire_ before I was truly hooked. I expect it will pass, but in an odd way I was distracted by the “hey, it’s him again!” factor, seeing actors from _The Wire_ and _Deadwood_ reappear. At least initially, it made it harder for me to concentrate on the new character (more so than if it had been an unknown actor in the role). ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treme-hbo-series-anybody-gonna-be-watching/535215/30 "2010-04-16T15:46:12Z")
I really liked the far shots of the city – if I hadn’t known that David Simon did this, those shots would have told me. My favorite scene was Clarke Peters in the feathers – the way it started, just a few sparkles in the dark (fireflies?) and the way the light shone around the edges of the feathers, they glowed like fire. And then he started to talk – lord knows what he was saying, but it was very powerful. He really got into it. ETA: NPR had a story yesterday about some colleges (Duke, Harvard) teaching _The Wire_. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treme-hbo-series-anybody-gonna-be-watching/535215/31 "2010-04-16T18:45:41Z")
I like it. It’s worth it for the music alone. Two questions: The older, heavier DJ – was he anyone? I got the vibe of a musician or some such making a cameo. Also, I haven’t seen Steve Zahn in anything for a long time – has he always been channeling Crispin Glover? ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treme-hbo-series-anybody-gonna-be-watching/535215/32 "2010-04-20T01:10:40Z")
> [@zeldarae](#): > > Actually the greater Houston area, due to the oil industry, has long had Louisiana natives migrating there…since right after WWII, well before Katrina. Right… I haven’t lived in Houston since 1999, so any Louisianans I ever knew were there well before Katrina. Plus, most of the Katrina refugees weren’t exactly what you’d call “coon asses”, even though they were from Louisiana. ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treme-hbo-series-anybody-gonna-be-watching/535215/33 "2010-04-20T03:12:48Z")
I lived in Treme (Gov Nicholls/Claiborne). I lived it, I don’t need to watch a TV show about it. Left for NYC after a man attacked me with a crowbar one night while leaving work. Cajuns (Coonasses) live more out West, around Lafayette. It’s a misconception that New Orleans is filled with them. New Orleans is more Creole, and Treme is a historically Creole area of the city. Yes, there are multiple NOLA accents. A real native could probably identify more, but I know of at least the Garden District accent, ‘Yat’ accent, etc. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treme-hbo-series-anybody-gonna-be-watching/535215/34 "2010-04-21T19:20:03Z")
Haven’t gotten to watch this yet but I did just get back from my first visit to New Orleans and now I can’t wait to see this series. I was already excited about it as a David Simon fan (The Wire is the greatest show in the history of television, in my opinion) and now I’m even more eager to get into this one. Didn’t see it mentioned here but while I was in NOLA, there was a front page story about the show already getting picked up for a 2nd season. It opened to pretty decent numbers… Something like 1.2 million for the premiere, compared to the roughly 800k per episode that The Wire averaged. Just signed up for HBO today, and am planning on watching the first episode when I get home tonight. Can’t wait! ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treme-hbo-series-anybody-gonna-be-watching/535215/35 "2010-04-21T19:22:26Z")
Also, I asked my cab driver about how to pronounce “Treme” as we were driving through that neighborhood - He said that Treh-MAY or Treh-MEE are both correct and both are used pretty interchangably down there. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treme-hbo-series-anybody-gonna-be-watching/535215/36 "2010-04-24T18:39:43Z")
\*\*OPEN SPOILERS \*\* I figure it’s almost time for episode 3, so open spoilers for 1 and 2. Got a kick out of seeing Slim Charles again (the fake David Brooks). I assume his appearance isn’t a one-off – he probably knows something about the man they’re searching for. I liked what they did with the three young white Christian tourists. For once, it was the native who acted like a jerk. Loved the violin music and will try to find out who that was. Did Lester kill that guy? I think he did. ☹ Not sad for the dead guy so much as sad that Lester apparently has an uncontrollable temper. ---
**Author:** ![infinitii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treme-hbo-series-anybody-gonna-be-watching/535215/37 "2010-04-24T19:49:37Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > Loved the violin music and will try to find out who that was. > **[Entertainment News - Latest Celebrity News](https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/)** > > Get the latest celebrity profiles, reviews on the biggest movies, music, TV, and books and the low-down on everything worthy of being your next Netflix binge, courtesy of the editors of Esquire. For some reason I thought she was only going to be in that episode. Great news! ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treme-hbo-series-anybody-gonna-be-watching/535215/38 "2010-04-24T19:52:58Z")
Oh cool! I’ll bet she dumps that guy. I haven’t heard much blues fiddle/violin – Clarence Gatemouth Brown – who else? ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treme-hbo-series-anybody-gonna-be-watching/535215/39 "2010-04-24T21:36:35Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > I liked what they did with the three young white Christian tourists. They were volunteers, not tourists. But, yeah. Reminded me of that one Peter Arno cartoon. Young woman is sitting in a Paris cafe, wearing a miniskirt, a ton of eyeliner, and a leering guy’s arm, while smoking a cigarette in a holder. Her aghast friend (twinset, pearls, ponytail) stands by the table: “But Mary Lou! You mean you’re not coming back to Bryn Mawr **ever**?” I’d been hoping the whole time that that would be the reason they didn’t come back. Glad I was right. ---
**Author:** ![boilercake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@boilercake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boilercake)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treme-hbo-series-anybody-gonna-be-watching/535215/40 "2010-04-24T22:50:27Z")
Nope. NO has been an entitled poop pile for a long time, yes pre-Katrina, and some airy-fairy romanticized jazz-infused alternate-reality enobled version is not interesting to me. Why not an ode to how wonderful, resilient Detroit or St. Louis is while we are at it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treme-hbo-series-anybody-gonna-be-watching/535215.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treme-hbo-series-anybody-gonna-be-watching/535215.md?page=3)