tvshow:treme

David Simon on what HBO’s ’Treme’ meant to him and what he hopes it meant to New Orleanians
▻http://blog.nola.com/treme-hbo/print.html?entry=/2013/12/david_simon_on_what_hbos_treme.html

It was not journalism or documentary. It was fictional, and the fact that it is set in a real time and place – or even that the events depicted are relatively recent ones – is not an affront by every literary standard of narrative. From Melville to Mitchell, from Fitzgerald to Doctorow, from Robert Penn Warren to James Jones, our times and the events of our times have been good grist for the storyteller’s mill, and some fine works in the canon are the certain result of such a dynamic. The turbulence and journey of New Orleans after Katrina is certainly as worthy of a storyteller’s attention as Pearl Harbor or Huey Long.

As ’Treme’ ends, David Simon takes a hard-eyed look at what’s ahead
▻http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/z-on-tv-blog/bal-as-treme-ends-david-simon-hbo-20131129,0,4674483.story

“I have to say,” he continued, “I’m sort of at this point wondering if I’m not a strange fit for television. And ‘The Wire’ was sort of fire in the bottle, because nobody watched ‘The Wire’ when it was on the air. And nobody watched ‘Generation Kill.’ And nobody watched ‘Treme.’

“So, on some level, while I have a very good reputation after the fact for writing for television, when the stuff’s actually on the air, it isn’t all that much of an asset for a network. So, I don’t know about HBO. They may be getting hip to the fact that nobody watches my [expletive] when it’s on the air. And that’s not likely to change, I don’t think.”

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