Treme, Season 3, Episode 7: “Promised Land”
Written by David Simon, Chris Rose & Micah Kibodeaux
Directed by Tim Robbins
Airs Sundays at 10pm (Et) on HBO
This week, on Treme: Chief Lambreaux takes his walk, Antoine’s band jams with the Marines, and Sofia misses her dad
Treme always knocks it out of the park with their Mardi Gras episodes and this season is no exception. “Promised Land” runs almost 70 minutes, but it earns every second. Things start off well, with confirmation for the audience that Sofia has ditched her loser boyfriend and is making eyes at LP, though he (perhaps unknowingly) lets her down as painlessly as possible. After a stern conversation with Sofia’s now-ex, and a drink at the judges’ table, Toni takes the rest of the episode off, as does Sofia, for the most part.
It wouldn’t be the Treme Mardi Gras episode, though, without...
Written by David Simon, Chris Rose & Micah Kibodeaux
Directed by Tim Robbins
Airs Sundays at 10pm (Et) on HBO
This week, on Treme: Chief Lambreaux takes his walk, Antoine’s band jams with the Marines, and Sofia misses her dad
Treme always knocks it out of the park with their Mardi Gras episodes and this season is no exception. “Promised Land” runs almost 70 minutes, but it earns every second. Things start off well, with confirmation for the audience that Sofia has ditched her loser boyfriend and is making eyes at LP, though he (perhaps unknowingly) lets her down as painlessly as possible. After a stern conversation with Sofia’s now-ex, and a drink at the judges’ table, Toni takes the rest of the episode off, as does Sofia, for the most part.
It wouldn’t be the Treme Mardi Gras episode, though, without...
- 11/12/2012
- by Kate Kulzick
- SoundOnSight
By episode seven (written by Chris Rose & Micah Kibodeaux, story by David Simon & Chris Rose, directed by Tim Robbins), "Treme" is in the development stage of its dramatic construction. By this I don’t mean that executives are getting their paws all over it – rather, that, like a classical composer, the writers, having set out their major themes, are complicating matters, working variations, and setting the table for what is to come. [Spoilers ahead, albeit minor] Simon has a habit of flipping over the coin, peering at the backside of the painting, reconceiving things from weird angles to see what else can be gleaned. So if Nelson works his connections (and in the process, gets us inside a DC Mardi Gras party), in this episode Toni uses the same cronyism to get the court, order she needs, drinking with a judge to get it signed. (The judge is played by Tim Reid, whom, to this day,...
- 11/5/2012
- by Terry Curtis Fox
- Thompson on Hollywood
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