A couple of days ago I wrote a passionate but negative review of the new HBO series TREME. Since that time the feedback I have received did not agree at all with my opinions of the show. In fact I was referred to as an elitist, unfair and narrow minded. No matter how I have tried to justify my thinking, my detractors have been very vocal. In fact my own children, all now adults, all born in New Orleans made our weekly Friday night dinner quite lively, expounding their views on the show and telling me I was way off base!
Comments from readers stated everything from: I may have employed blacks, but certainly never lived among them, so how could I possibly understand their dialogue….to the Mardi Gras Indians are part of the fabric of New Orleans. I say go back and reread my review. At no time did I say anything condescending about the Indians or for that matter anything about the blacks, other than I did not understand the dialogue of the show during the first five minutes..
I was told to get off my high horse! The basic premise of my review was that the show was narrow in scope and that it did not portray other segments of the population that experienced the catastrophe of Katrina in many of the same ways. I think one of my comments sums it up, and I quote, “I think if there is anything to be agreed upon, it’s that the show affects people on a personal level, especially if they know New Orleans on a personal level.”
I cry “UNCLE!” I will give it another look see. After all, as I have been told numerous times, it was only the first. I can only hope the show producers portray the others I speak about at some point, so that its viewers can get a broader accounting of what the inhabitants of this great city went through and for some, are still.
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