Treme

[seeline]

Sonny: I have no idea!

[Mitchell Duval]

I think that Sonny and Annie might be fictional versions of a real-life couple that became infamous in post-Katrina NOLA. If this is so, spoiler alert: It doesn't end well.

[seeline]

I've been thinking (for the past two episodes) that things aren't going to end well for her... but that's just my hunch.

[RJ Spangler]

My feeling, after 4 episodes, is that Sonny will continue to play on the street and Anne will start working at actual venues and build up a career well beyond busking for change.

[seeline]

I'd like to believe that, RJ, but Sonny is already jealous and bitter about her spending time with other musicians (all men) and the fact that she's playing good gigs.

Almost sounds like the plotline for an opera...

[RJ Spangler]

Dig, like you suggest, it could all go south.

[Hot Ptah]

It seems inevitable to me that something negative will happen with Sonny. The suspense is whether he will drag her down with him, or hurt her.

[seeline]

It seems inevitable to me that something negative will happen with Sonny. The suspense is whether he will drag her down with him, or hurt her.

The scenes in the last episode - where Sonny's at the juke joint in Texas - came across as fairly sinister (in the way they portrayed him, that is). He's been nursing a grudge against her for two episodes now, and I don't think he's going to give that up. For her part, Annie comes across to me as very trusting and, in some ways, naive. That doesn't bode well for her, I'm thinking, but who knows?

fwiw, IMDB has Annie listed as being in a large number of episodes, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything. (I think sometimes there is misleading "info." posted there so that viewers won't be able to determine if a character leaves a show for whatever reason.)

Edited to add: Sonny's pals - the ones who talked him into going to Texas for the jam session - also came across to me as young, naive and fanboy-ish. (Or wannabe-ish, maybe?)

Edited May 8, 2010 by seeline

[JSngry]

Look's like Frank's place is on the bench now.

[RJ Spangler]

Almost everyone smokes some pot on the show, but it seems that Sonney is into something harder, eh?

Look's like Frank's place is on the bench now.

I see that you caught too! I liked it.

[Lazaro Vega]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ae-0516-treme-jazz-20100516,0,1163511.column

[JSngry]

It's a drag to have to go to a tux gig in a suit & tie...

Edited May 17, 2010 by JSngry

[Hot Ptah]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ae-0516-treme-jazz-20100516,0,1163511.column

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[RJ Spangler]

In one episode Sonny makes abig deal out of spending $20 ona bottle of wine to drink with Anne, then we find out he's a coke head. Its $20 just to get that party started it seems to me...a lot more to really be into it.

[JSngry]

Where you live that you can get that party started for only $20? At least w/o sharing?

[catesta]

I just started watching this show this weekend. I'm up to episode 5 and have to say I'm enjoying it. I was a big fan of the Wire so it's good to see a couple of my favorite people from that show re-surface here as the two most interesting characters.

[DukeCity]

It's a drag to have to go to a tux gig in a suit & tie...

Yeah, but that scene struck me as a little weak. I mean, he's got his black suit on and a white shirt. Put the bow tie on and no one would notice it's not really a tux.

[JSngry]

True, but then you'd be frontin' instead of representin'.

OTOh, any motherfucker who would change a street named after General Lee to one named after Lee Allen would get my vote in damn near any election!

[DukeCity]

True, but then you'd be frontin' instead of representin'.

OTOh, any motherfucker who would change a street named after General Lee to one named after Lee Allen would get my vote in damn near any election!

Aren't those the two fabled unreleased sides from the end of Miles' contract with Prestige?

[JSngry]

I think you got them misconfuserated with some more mid-60s Chet Baker sides for the label. Besides those two there was also Signifyin', Maintainin'. and the one on where everybody was so fucked up they pissed their pants but played the session anyway, without changing 'cause the buzz was too good, Triflin'.

[RJ Spangler]

Where you live that you can get that party started for only $20? At least w/o sharing?

Detroit

True, but then you'd be frontin' instead of representin'.

OTOh, any motherfucker who would change a street named after General Lee to one named after Lee Allen would get my vote in damn near any election!

ME TOO!

[catesta]

Interesting season ender, mainly with what happened to John Goodman's character.

[Tom Cat]

I don't like Sonny, he could be an ass sometimes, as for the son of the chief what do you think about his faking on the trumpet? i really don't like it

[catesta]

I don't like Sonny, he could be an ass sometimes, as for the son of the chief what do you think about his faking on the trumpet? i really don't like it

The "Sonny" character is a waste of skin. Wendell Pierce has done a solid job faking the bone. Rob Brown with the trumpet? Not so good...

[sheldonm]

I personally liked the entire series.

I spoke to a couple folks that live in NOLA, a photographer that thought it was pretty good but not completely factual (not that it was supposed to be) and the wonderful tenor player Kidd Jordan just last week. He said he had not watched it but most of his friends/family that had seen it were luke warm on it at best.

I still thought it was entertaining, which I'm sure the producers were hoping for.

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