I'm looking forward to seeing this - I loved The Wire, and I love New Orleans music too

I see that UK iTunes have a few short video podcasts which give a flavour of the programme. The show aired here in Canada this last weekend and I agree, it's all you'd expect dramatically from David Simon, coupled with the most wonderful soundtrack.

EHM: Really, the music is incredible.
I've watched the first episode twice tonight, was three minutes into a third when the GLW came back from the boozer wanting to know about the candidates debate.
I read her some tweets.
It's just superb, musically at least. And it has another Ziggy Sabotka-style annoying wigger too.

They cannot sell me a box set quick enough. If Treme is a hit (and Dominic West said he read the pilot script and thought it was better than The Wire) could David Simon get a series made based on estimated DVD sales bypassing the need for a TV company to even show it?

I've now seen the 1st episode twice and can't wait for the next one. Right from the off it looks like there are going to be some memorable characters in there. I was a little worried that I would typecast the actors who previously appeared in The Wire but that didn't happen as their new characters are brilliant.

Soundtrack is fantastic!! Yesterday I had a New Orleans Funeral songs playlist going all day on Spotify.

I too would have bought a DVD box set if it was available simply based on Simon's previous form and the reviews in The Guardian.

I'm going to do a funeral songs playlist now, will post it later for one and all. Stevie, share yours too.

I've not been able to get Buena Sera out of my head for three weeks, but I'm ok with that!

If you want to hear the music from Treme, I would suggest you follow this blog (not mine) http://songsfromtreme.tumblr.com/ which has them all on it, or have a try of my spotify playlist http://open.spotify.com/user/iamhewhoisiam/playlist/2a9ymXav6ZV1TYvKPK0j...

Just bear in mind that there are a couple of songs missing due to the fact that they are not on Sppotify!

Really looking forward to seeing/hearing more Treme!

Enthused by this thread I renewed my erm, student flat mate's subscription to easynews.com, only to find not a single episode of Treme available. However, there are many many things purporting to be extreme. D'oh, as a wise man once said.

Edit; In desperation I tried again and there it was. Also found Series 3 of Breaking Bad!

And it just gets better. The storylines switch seamlessly from comic to tragic, and the characters that were slightly worringly shallow in the pilot get some flesh slapped on them - John Goodman's Michael Moore Lite improves massively, for instance (although more flesh - or mass, come to that - might not exactly be what was missing).

As for the music, well, what can I say except that Coco Robicheux and Alain Toussaint are in it. (So's Elvis Costello, but they limit him to speaking, mercifully.)

And to round it off, Slim Charles is back, back, back - albeit for a one-line cameo.

I was very worried about this series before it aired. Quite groundlessly, I think I can now say. Phew.

from Amazon USA. I was in the actual Treme when this launched on TV last April. There was hardly a bad word from anyone in NOLA about the show.

I don't have Sky so thanks to Murdoch taking all the HBO stuff I didn't get to see this until the boxset came through.

The music is just wonderful and I'm a New Orleans obsessive. Even with most of the great R&B guys dead and gone there is still more music in that part of the world than anywhere else that I know of. 'Treme' gets it right; from the respect paid to 'Fess, to seeing Kermit in a neighbourhood bar, to the busking scene, to the parade culture. Documentary almost. (I don't think the titty bars have 8 piece R&B bands playing though....)