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Shake Your Body Down to the Ground

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (31)

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I don’t get excited very often about television. Hell, I barely watch the damn thing. But I’ve made it well-known that my all-time favorite television show was HBO’s “The Wire,” created and produced by David Simon. A few months ago, we reported that Simon had another show in the works that HBO picked up. Fellow “Wire” junkie Seth had this to say about it back then:

He started working on “Treme” shortly after “The Wire” wrapped, turning his focus to post-Katrina New Orleans. Simon has talked about how the intent of this show is to intimately focus on the people, and the city itself, trying to rebuild themselves from the brink of utter devastation.

The show looks nothing less than amazing. Amazing cast. Amazing production. A-fucking-mazing cinematography. A couple “Wire” alums are participating: Wendell Pierce and Clarke Peters. The show will also feature John Goodman, Steve Zahn, Melissa Leo, Khandi Alexander, Kim Dickens, and Rob Brown.

Coupled with the fact that Kermit Ruffins, trumpeter extraordinaire for The Rebirth Brass Band, collaborated on the music (and I believe it’s their “Do Watcha Wanna” featured in the trailer), and I am officially losing my shit. Here’s the trailer:

Pretty goddamn impressive, no? Also, a quick musical plug: If you have not listened to Ruffins in any of his incarnations — with Rebirth, with The Barbecue Swingers, hell, anything, you owe it to yourself to start now. So consider this my present to you:

(h/t to my friend Scott for the heads up on the trailer)









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Comments

I am SO EXCITED for this show. Look at Bunk up there, I just want to hug him.

Any show that features John Goodman AND Steve Zahn has my attention.

Posted by: Julie at March 23, 2010 10:40 AM

...badass.

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Posted by: PissBoy at March 23, 2010 10:42 AM

There was a really good NYT Magazine article about it this past weekend.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/magazine/21simon-t.html

Posted by: dene at March 23, 2010 10:42 AM

You had me at John Goodman.

Posted by: Carrie at March 23, 2010 10:43 AM

BUNK MORELAND 2: Yabba Dabba Dabba Doo.

Posted by: the new transported man at March 23, 2010 10:48 AM

I've watched The Wire, end to end, three times. I've been way down in the hole, so to speak. April 11th cant come soon enough.

Posted by: rich diculous at March 23, 2010 11:26 AM

See, this is tricky. I like David Simon's Baltimore cop shows, so I feel slightly guilty that I haven't really been interested in this, but...what can I do?

Posted by: Jay at March 23, 2010 11:47 AM

Oh, alright, I'll check it out. Now leave me the fuck alone!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Kballs at March 23, 2010 11:52 AM

Very excited for this one. Glad we finally got a preview beyond the jazz scored teaser. Can't wait to get home to watching it with sound. The only thing I caught reading lips was, I think, John Goodman saying at the end "What the fuck do you think we're doing here?" but that could be wrong.

Treme, Boardwalk Empire, True Blood S3, yes HBO, you are earning that $12 a month I keep throwing at you.

Posted by: TylerDFC at March 23, 2010 12:00 PM

This actually looks . . . good. Really good. Way better than that K-Ville crap (making a poboy at home, gumbo parties, WTF??)

AND AND AND, the people sound right. I heard honest-to-God normal accents in that trailer and I'm sure it helps that they got actual actors from Louisiana (John Goodman lives there and Wendell Pierce is from there to start).

I might be able to watch this without cringing. And that's a hard thing to say.

Posted by: MyySharona at March 23, 2010 12:06 PM

Looking good.

Posted by: Cindy at March 23, 2010 12:09 PM

Saw Ruffins w/the Swingers at Preservation Hall in 2002; fucking awesome. Accompanying him were some of the Marsalis brothers.

More chops than a pig farm.

Posted by: Recondite at March 23, 2010 12:42 PM

@Tyler Yes that's exactly what he says. John Goodman berating a snotty British journalist is just plain satisfying. (Of course, a Brit isn't going to appreciate jazz or spicy creole...)

If the trailer(s) is to be believed, it also looks like a lot of musical cameos- wasn't that Dr. John?

I find it funny you run HBO trailers- either you have HBO and see these trailer ALL the time, or you don't have HBO and it's a tease. Either way it makes you want to dance!

Posted by: bananapanda at March 23, 2010 12:44 PM

And, surprisingly, I approve of the majority of accents.

"Be real real son."

Posted by: Recondite at March 23, 2010 12:47 PM

The Bunk is strictly a suit-and-tie motherfucker.

Posted by: Mick J at March 23, 2010 12:57 PM

I love Kermit, I love Rebirth (they played at my wedding!) and, goddamnit, I love New Orleans. I can't wait to see this show but, as the wife of a dedicated punk rocker, it still makes me sad that the world only knows about NOLa's (superawesomefabulous) jazz scene when there is also an incredible (if not entirely marketable) punk rock scene holding itself together by the strings down there, too.
Severin For Mayor!!

That is all.

Posted by: JenVegas at March 23, 2010 1:21 PM

AHEM.
I totally reported "Treme" to Stacey and she put it on Pajiba Love before you did.
Props to me.
That is all.

Posted by: jamiepants at March 23, 2010 2:12 PM

Just got back from New Orleans. Saw Rebirth but missed Kermit Ruffins at Vaughan's even though I was staying in Bywater, only a block away.
Anyway, I couldn't be more excited for this show.

Posted by: Borg at March 23, 2010 2:13 PM

Posted by: jamiepants at March 23, 2010 2:14 PM

There is nothing in the world that I am more excited about.

Posted by: TSF at March 23, 2010 3:05 PM

Good cast and a great review; but I can't decide if the show is legit. I grew up a few hours away from N.O. I've always felt you could look at that city two ways, the a lot of outsiders like to romanticize it (French Q and Garden District), where everyone has street parties, goes to carnival, loves Dixieland, and Creole/Cajun food, and then there is the reality of a shit-mean corrupt town with serious drug and gang problems, a huge divide between rich and poor, and significant, if not crippling, race problems. When I was kid, I always heard that the only thing meaner and more corrupt than the N.O.P.D. was the Louisiana Highway Patrol (and I’m not from Louisiana). So which way are the creators of the show going to sell it? The trailer makes it seem like everyone in NO is easy with a smile and either works in a restaurant/bar or plays in a street marching band? And actually, I can see why tourists might buy that line, but it’s fiction and it will show, probably in the pilot episode.


If they want to do the show right, they will not put any gloss on it. The city is charming and scary and if they tell it right, those things will come out on their own. They should go for subtle; tell a good story set in an unusual American city, not tell about an unusual American city set it in a good story.

Posted by: JD at March 23, 2010 4:42 PM

JD, given that the show is being done by the folks who did "The Wire", which is the grittiest, most realistic and unflinching TV show ever, I think it'll likely satisfy you.

Posted by: Skewicide Blonde at March 23, 2010 4:45 PM

"If you had listened to me and taken Earhart, you wouldn't have run into all that mess!"

I cannot remember how many times I've said that to family.

I can't wait for this show. It's going to be awesome.

Posted by: Fredo at March 23, 2010 5:15 PM

SOOOO what Fredo said.
The only thing I'm annoyed by is that Kermit's weekly standing gig at Vaughan's is probably gonna get even more frickin crowded.

Posted by: jamiepants at March 23, 2010 5:26 PM

I hope you're right Skewicide Blonde. I would love to see a show with the tension of The Wire pulled off in the Crescent City, but I'll be a skeptic until I see it.

Posted by: JD at March 23, 2010 5:39 PM

Bunk!

I wonder how many other Wire alums will show up.

Posted by: greer at March 23, 2010 6:12 PM

"If you had listened to me and taken Earhart, you wouldn't have run into all that mess!"

Was that in the trailer? Because that is hilarious and awesome. And completely fucking true.

Posted by: MyySharona at March 23, 2010 8:23 PM

Not only are there actors from The Wire in this, Melissa Leo is from Homicide: Life on the Street and Khandi Alexander is from The Corner. It's a David Simon reunion.

Posted by: Three-nineteen at March 23, 2010 9:56 PM

I *finally* got into the "The Wire" and yeah, I can't freakin' wait to see this! My love for New Orleans, plus Bunk & John Goodman... jamiepants, make up the couch for me, because I'm sure I'm going to have to come visit after watching this!

Posted by: Lainey at March 24, 2010 12:56 AM

You sure do talk a lot, laineyface.

Posted by: jamiepants at March 25, 2010 11:23 AM

Can barely wait to see this show and so thankful they're using so many NOLA locals as extras and as stars! Three cheers to David Simon and Wendell Pierce for starters!

Paul Harris
Author, "Diary From the Dome, Reflections on Fear and Privilege During Katrina"

Posted by: Paul Harris at March 27, 2010 5:52 AM