The trailer for Treme, David Simon's next effort out of HBO this spring, sure is gorgeous:
I have to admit, I'll be extremely curious to see how Simon handles musicians as main characters. There may be similarities between the dynamics of groups of artists and groups of cops, or groups of drug dealers, or groups of politicians, but the structures within which they operate are fairly different from the ones Simon's dealt with in the past. Although of course, the setting among post-Reconstruction New Orleans will give him plenty of corruption and structural idiocy and iniquity to deal with, I'm sure. I did think The Wire did have a nice touch with music, so even though scoring a TV show, and particularly rad montages, is very different from the process and the meaning of making music, so for now I'm going to choose to be optimistic. Especially for a show that gets Bunk playing brass.
Obviously, much, much more to come.