With Treme, TV's poet laureate of urban America sets his words to music.
Music — unstructured, unfiltered, spontaneous and sometimes discordant — is, after all, what first made the world take note of New Orleans and is what still plays behind our fondest memories of a city that is both quintessentially American and yet somehow totally a place unto itself. And music is what drives this endlessly rich series from The Wire's David Simon, who has teamed with Wire writer Eric Overmyer to re-create New Orleans three months after it was nearly washed away by Hurricane Katrina.
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