Costumes!

Ogden Museum readies exhibit of Mardi Gras costumes

Treme nominated for Costume Designers Guild award

My Lil' Darlin' An HBO Treme All Star Revue

January 12 at Tipitina's, Paul Sanchez headlines. Here are the details.

Collection

Hi all. A few things have surfaced since the end of the season.

First, Treme had 2 episodes in Matt Zoller Seitz' top 25 drama episodes list--Promised Land at #4 and Tipitina at #14.

 The Firewall and Iceberg podcast post-mortem.

Treme scores 4 NAACP awards

 An extra's "day in the life" post at Offbeat

 The Divine, Difficult Women of Treme

 Production for the final season has begun--of course if I get any nice morsels, I'll post them here!

Seitz Takes the Simon Challenge

...and reviews Treme Season 3 as a whole at Vulture.

I realize that, as I write this, one theme or notion is bleeding into another, but that’s true to the spirit of Treme, which insists on the interconnectedness of all people, places, and stories. Simon, Overmeyer, and company avoid the sort of obvious, Fiction Writing 101 parallelism that often pops up on TV dramas, even the good ones. We may sense a kinship between one character’s subplot and another’s, but their placement within an episode containing so many other subplots prevents them from seeming too schematic. It’s never A equals B. It’s looser and more mysterious than that: A equals B, but then A turns into C and B turns into D without your realizing it, and suddenly you’re looking at a different analogy being drawn with some of the same characters. Terry, Toni, and LaDonna are subjected to intimidation by wrongdoers trying to evade punishment; Annie and Antoine and Davis struggle with the anxiety of artistic influence; LaDonna and Albert both cope with the psychological aftermath of bodily invasion (by sexual assault and cancer, respectively): But the show never says, “Hey, look, these characters are in exactly the same predicament!” because they aren’t; no two people ever are. All they have in common is their humanity.

Episode 31 Recaps and Reviews

AV Club

Back of Town Open Thread 

Dave Walker's Explainer

League of Ordinary Gentlemen

Paste Magazine

What's Alan Watching

Factoids from the Real Davis

From Davis Rogan's FB page:

Your Treme factoids for the day. In the Bar Mitzvah scene I'm playing offscreen piano for Zahn. Zahn is sitting behind my Yamaha P-70 while I'm playing my P-85. I'm sure you all noticed the discrepancy in piano sample quality. Also, in real life, David Simon flew Kermit Ruffins and his band up to Baltimore for his son Ethan's Bar Mitzvah. Ethan, who had taken a few lessons from me, played with the band. I can't remember if it was Tipitina or Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

Episode 31: Tipitina (Treme Season 3 Finale)

As I prognosticated last week, the season finale would have functioned quite well as a series finale, had it come to that.  What I got wrong, however, is the idea that Treme doesn't set up any launching off points for the future very well.  This episode was very much about the future, from the kids, to Janette's new reality, to the impending federal investigation into the Abreu case.