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• 'Treme' season two's most memorable moments

  Jul 10 2011, 5:07 AM EDT (view original item)

  A look at TV critic Dave Walker's picks, plus we want to know what were your favorite moments?

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• Critics Love Them Some ‘Treme’

  Jul 6 2011, 12:02 PM EDT (view original item)

  *In the wake of Sunday’s season finale of HBO’s “Treme,” the show and one of its characters have been given extraordinary props by two separate media outlets. Below, The Hollywood Reporter’s Tim Goodman, in his piece “How ‘Treme’ Found Greatness In Ordinary People And Counterintuitive Storytelling,” tries to pinpoint the exact ingredients that...

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• Cheers & Jeers: Treme's Khandi (Alexander) is Dandy

  Jul 5 2011, 11:03 AM EDT (view original item)

  share: digg facebook twitter The actress, who was unjustly denied an Emmy nomination for her fiercely nuanced turn as a recovering drug-addict mother in Treme creator David Simon's 2000 miniseries, The Corner, deserves long-overdue recognition for this role. Other standouts included Steve Zahn (DJ Davis bid farewell to his band, the Brassy Knoll, and to Season 2 by spinning Louis...

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• Cheers & Jeers: Treme's Khandi (Alexander) is Dandy

  Jul 5 2011, 10:07 AM EDT (view original item)

  Cheers to Khandi Alexander for her tour de hurricane force on Treme. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine. As her character, bar owner LaDonna Batiste Williams, raged at the rapist who attacked her ? and the legal system that temporarily freed him due to a clerical error ? Alexander powerfully embodied the citywide anger at the lawlessness in post-Katrina New Orleans. The...

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• Howard Mandel's freelance Urban Improvisation

  Jul 4 2011, 6:27 PM EDT (view original item)

  Of course the soundtrack, much of it shown as live performance, was dynamite, and seemingly non-stop. Highlights included several scenes of the Rebirth Brass Band; the character Delmond Lambreaux (actor Rob Brown mimes to Leon "Kid Chocolate" Brown 's trumpet playing) in collaboration with saxophonist Donald Harrison and Mardi Gras Indians at Jazz Fest ; hot trad-style soprano...

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• David Simon, 'Treme' and Muckraking TV

  Jun 30 2011, 4:29 PM EDT (view original item)

  Treme , David Simon’s melancholy ode to post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, will wrap up its second season on HBO on Sunday, July 3. Like Simon’s other creations for HBO -- The Wire , Operation Kill , and The Corner -- Treme shines an Upton Sinclair-like spotlight on myriad societal ills that thrive in the shadows of national neglect.

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• Why You Should Have Been Watching Treme Instead of The Killing

  Jun 30 2011, 10:48 AM EDT (view original item)

  Two weeks ago, The Killing aired its first season finale . The Internet went blue with fury, a Vancouver hockey riot of TV fans, with many complaining, quite reasonably, that the show didn’t answer its own ad’s murder-mystery question, “Who Killed Rosie Larsen?” (Which it did not, one outlying review to the contrary.) But unfortunately, even if one were willing to accept...

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• "Treme," Season 2, Episode 10

  Jun 27 2011, 2:49 PM EDT (view original item)

  “That’s What Lovers Do” marks the penultimate episode of “Treme’s” second season. You’d think that maybe, after 20 hours of dense, exhaustively researched presentations of New Orleans, David Simon and his showrunners could stop trying to prove how much they get the Crescent City.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

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• Emmys Watch: Tim Goodman Picks His Drama Favorites

  Jun 26 2011, 1:25 AM EDT (view original item)

  Tim Goodman The nominations are anybody's guess, but THR's chief critic and other veterans from the TV industry offer their opinions on which shows and actors should be contenders in this year's race. read more

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• Tim Goodman's Emmy Nominee Wish List

  Jun 26 2011, 12:55 AM EDT (view original item)

  Tim Goodman The nominations are anybody's guess, but THR's chief TV critic offers his strong opinion on the shows and actors who should be recognized when the contenders are announced on July 14. read more

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• It's Emmy Season, And The Nominees Should Be...

  Jun 21 2011, 7:39 AM EDT (view original item)

  Critic Eric Deggans looks ahead to the Emmy Awards and has a few suggestions for voters about who deserves to be nominated. His choices span cable and broadcast, fantasy and police dramas, and one very clueless government employee.

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• Today in 'Treme:' Recap Linkzilla

  Jun 21 2011, 5:07 AM EDT (view original item)

  'The title of this episode, 'What Is New Orleans?' reiterates a question the show's been asking all year.'

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• My new NPR appearance: Why Margo Martindale and Peter Dinklage deserve Emmy nominations

  Jun 20 2011, 4:21 PM EDT (view original item)

  I've written about this before in this space. But NPR's Michele Norris got me dish at some length for today's All Things Considered about who deserves Emmy nominations in the awards' latest cycle, as voting concludes this week. Ballots for Emmy academy voters were posted online last Monday; votes are due this coming Friday. Which means critics with any kind of a national profile...

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• "Treme," Season 2, Ep 9

  Jun 20 2011, 4:00 PM EDT (view original item)

  On HBO’s Sunday nights, “Game of Thrones” has been the lead-in and de facto opening act to “Treme,” which makes for an odd pairing. Watching the latest “Treme” back-to-back with “Game of Thrones’” season finale helps reveal that New Orleans’ musicians and other citizens face as many power struggles and Machiavellian machinations as...

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• 'Treme' explained: 'What is New Orleans?'

  Jun 19 2011, 11:22 PM EDT (view original item)

  The details of season two's episode nine.

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• As 'Treme's' John the bartender, New Orleanian David Kency minds Gigi's for LaDonna

  Jun 19 2011, 11:22 PM EDT (view original item)

  'It was weird seeing myself on TV.'

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• Today in 'Treme:' Concert-tour raves, a TV Guide cheer for Wendell Pierce, Recap Linkzilla

  Jun 14 2011, 4:07 AM EDT (view original item)

  Also video.

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• "Treme," Season 2, Ep. 8

  Jun 13 2011, 12:02 PM EDT (view original item)

  Episode 8 embraces the title “Can I Change My Mind?” by switching up “Treme’s” usual meandering pace with some significant confrontations and moment-of-truth scenes. Apparently Toni and her daughter neglected to have a big face-off to clear the air after Sofia’s Mardi Gras misadventure last week, because the girl gets in deeper trouble.… [ Read more ] [...

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• Treme: Season 2 Episode 8: Can I Change My Mind? – TV Review

  Jun 13 2011, 11:48 AM EDT (view original item)

  “Treme” is perhaps the best drama on TV right now, and last night’s episode was a strong reminder of that fact. Even with Mardi Gras out of the way, there was plenty of story to tell, with several characters being forced to deal with emotional drama that placed tremendous demands on the actors involved. Luckily, [...]

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• For Dramas, Expect New Faces

  Jun 13 2011, 12:34 AM EDT (view original item)

  Emmy supporting categories for comedies should look pretty...

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