Treme is great. suckers walked into it expecting The Wire set in New Orleans and got mad that it was a different show.
― gr8080, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
treme is dope. gotta say that luck looks awesome, too. wish i had hbo, might have to re-up on that.
― omar little, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link
treme was really good. different from simon's other stuff but who wants him to do exactly the same thing over and over? I don't. glad to see him out of baltimore for a change.
luck looks good. HBO has some good stuff, again, after a year or two there where it was getting kind of bankrupt.
― akm, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I have high hopes for Armando Ianucci's upcoming HBO show "Veep"
― Number None, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't like Treme much, but what I like even less is people who say I didn't like it because it wasn't "The Wire."
What do I know, though, I liked John from Cincinnati a whole lot.
― Jouster, Thursday, 21 April 2011 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link
u only liked John from Cincinnati bc it took place in an old timey western frontier town
― Mordy, Thursday, 21 April 2011 02:20 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost
yeah i realize thats a disingenuous throwaway remark, sorry.
i loved John from Cincinnati too
― gr8080, Thursday, 21 April 2011 02:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I loved John from Cincinnati with the Milch commentary track on and the regular audio track off.
― Four Shouters Shouting (Eazy), Thursday, 21 April 2011 04:32 (thirteen years ago) link
when do we get a tv show created by the cohen bros
― gr8080, Thursday, 21 April 2011 07:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Not too surprising:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-mann-david-milch-split-181092
― 27 Dresses, 13 Assassins (Eazy), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 07:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm actually really surprised mann had that big a hand in it in the first place. i figured it'd be a thing where he just directs the pilot and slaps his name on the show a la scorsese & boardwalk empire, but according to this:
After what an HBO source describes as "serious" discussions, Milch has the final word on scripts, but Mann decides everything else, from casting to cutting to music. Clearly that is not a situation to which Milch, the Emmy-winning writer-producer of NYPD Blue and Deadwood, has lately been accustomed.
― (.づ☀‿☀)づ ~da post-modernist struggle~ (.づ☀‿☀)づ (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 10:34 (thirteen years ago) link
rad, cochi loco is in this
― caek, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 10:38 (thirteen years ago) link
mann loves ortiz.
― (.づ☀‿☀)づ ~da post-modernist struggle~ (.づ☀‿☀)づ (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 10:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Mann decides everything else, from casting to cutting to music.
wonder who else is directing
― someone who's got a bit of swarthiness in them (history mayne), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 10:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Terry George and Allen Coulter apparently (me neither).
― Stevie T, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 11:00 (thirteen years ago) link
HBO's gonna have their 'house' guys direct it like they do with every show.
― (.づ☀‿☀)づ ~da post-modernist struggle~ (.づ☀‿☀)づ (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 11:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Didn't Terry George do Hotel Rwanda?
― Number None, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 11:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Totally inevitable. Two of the smartest, toughest, most head-strong, most perfectionist auteurs in the biz, collaborating? Ha. I'd watch a show about their behind the scenes fights.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 12:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Premieres in January.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
trailer
http://www.slashfilm.com/tv-trailer-michael-manndirected-hbo-drama-series-luck-starring-dustin-hoffman-nick-nolte/
― circa1916, Monday, 26 September 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
This better be good
― Number None, Monday, 26 September 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
The pilot is going to debut after the Boardwalk Empire finale on Dec. 11, with the season starting proper in January.
― encarta it (Gukbe), Monday, 31 October 2011 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
the pilot was pretty dope
― Aerosol, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
I liked it. There was some discussion on the sandbox TV thread, maybe I'll copy it over when sandbox comes back
― dmr, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
downloads furiously
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
I liked it. It was confusing, but pretty.
― The Brainwasher, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
when does the season start
― maghrib is back (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
i bet the horse betting stuff is gonna confuse the crap outta me
― maghrib is back (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
think it starts at the end of the month
― Number None, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
yeah the real premier is Jan. 29 (which I assume will be the pilot showing again, with a new ep on Feb 5)
― dmr, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
The pilot for this was insanely good.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
I just love Milch's writing. It's like otherworldly Shakespeare, in that it takes you a bit to get into the rhythms, etc., but once you do, you feel much more connected to it. You have to PAY. ATTENTION. I like that he doesn't seem concerned with realism in his dialog at all, but it also seems like whatever the style becomes, it will have its own consistency, and therefore will become more comfortable/decipherable for the viewer over time.
― schwantz, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
so this pilot ain't on HBO Go?
― walking liquidity crisis (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 01:54 (twelve years ago) link
no shockingly!
― Mordy, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
probably cos it was a sneak preview deal
― Number None, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 02:03 (twelve years ago) link
mordy i can't seem to reply to you on facebook, but i'm okay waiting
― walking liquidity crisis (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
its on teh torrents just fyi
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 02:47 (twelve years ago) link
holy cow that horse run very good.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 9 January 2012 06:37 (twelve years ago) link
Pilot is Michael Mann, though, right? I wonder who they got to direct the other eps. Probably called Walter Hill off the bench again, I hope.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 January 2012 12:44 (twelve years ago) link
that horse run very good
― caek, Monday, 9 January 2012 12:46 (twelve years ago) link
from the sound of things Mann was heavily involved throughout
― Number None, Monday, 9 January 2012 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
Since it's an HBO drama, the rest are probably directed by Tim van Patten, Allen Coulter, and company.
― Cheap desert locations (Eazy), Monday, 9 January 2012 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
And a quick look at IMDB gives the directors of the subsequent episodes as Terry George, Allen Coulter, Philip Noyce, Brian Kirk, Henry Bronchtein and Mimi Leder
― Number None, Monday, 9 January 2012 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
I found the incessant use of music on the pilot incredibly annoying and the starry casting a bit distracting. Didn't really feel any real Milchian zing in the dialogue. A little underwhelmed all round.
― Stevie T, Monday, 9 January 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
possibly just me but i found a couple of the accents incomprehensible
dustin hoffman was amazing i thought
looked fantastic of course
― caek, Monday, 9 January 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
not much of a starry cast, i thought? just nolte + hoffman and both had really subtle performances imo
― Mordy, Monday, 9 January 2012 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
Jose Yero's accent takes some close listening.
― Cheap desert locations (Eazy), Monday, 9 January 2012 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
Was pretta hypes to see Richard Kind show up. He could be in every show and movie and i probably wouldn't complain. But yeah, somewhat underwhelmed by this. Deadwood came out swinging, it announced itself. So many memorable moments all these years later from that pilot. I'm not at all sure what this is going to be after the first episode.
― Clay, Monday, 9 January 2012 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
that cajun can pump
― caek, Sunday, 15 January 2012 02:37 (twelve years ago) link
music for the last race btw, knew i recognized it from somewhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut20H-r9HiM
― caek, Sunday, 15 January 2012 03:05 (twelve years ago) link