8:05PM – Did the Marlin Boulet character just ask the kid, “How’s your mominem doing?” after he jumped out of his window while dropping a single homemade (?) fried shrimp po’ boy?
8:23PM РIt is obvious by now that a secret criminal enterprise harbors ill will towards rebuilding soir̩es.
8:24PM – D: “Coooool! They just blew up a car! How come I don’t get to see them filming the cool scenes?”
8:33PM – So, do they re-dirty the upper French Quarter after cleaning it up for cop show and commercial shoots?
8:40PM – GUMBO PARTY?! What in the name of good andouille sausage is that?!
8:44PM – Ohhhhh, evil casino owners with the help of Blackwaterriver Security want the Ninth Ward not to rebuild so that they can build shiny, happy roulette-studded condos there. (This show can use a real writer. Or a writer.)
8:50PM – Ohhhhh, some gal named Blanche, I mean, Christina DuBois wants the Upper Ninth Ward cleansed as revenge for her dead brother. Update: Ms. DuBois asks, “So we can bring home all these people who have no value for human life?” Said value which she herself exhibited so well by teaming with trained mercenaries to shoot at and take out a famous local singer. *rolls eyes*
8:52PM – The Trevor Cobb character jumped into the Mississippi, was actually able to see a drowning human and came out not glowing. Await growth of third leg and other appendages by Episode 4.
9:00PM – New Orleans East –> OPP –> Army –> NOPD. This makes perfect sense to me. No, really, it does.
9:02PM – Beautiful panoramic skyline shots and pans.
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Do they get little details wrong like all these shows? I sat through one episode of “The District” (while I was living in DC, my mom was watching it when I visited) and just kept thinking, “How’d they get from there to there? What? This is silly.”
Yeah, the Boulet character’s home is obviously in MidCity, or at least Gentilly, and he referred to the Upper Ninth as his backyard. Depends on the scale, I suppose.
They do that on all the shows. “Streets of San Francisco” is notoriously ridiculous if you know the local geography.
I want to know when they’re going to work in the backstory on why Boulet doesn’t look anything like his sister the politician.
BTW, I’ve been swimming in the river, and no, that’s not a third leg, it’s something much better.
So, yeah, I watched. I want to support a show that’s supporting the city, but damn, guys. You’ve gotta bring a better game than that. The visuals are quite striking, and I like the fact that they film on location, not trying to convince us that Toronto or Vancouver is New Orleans. But I felt the cliches sneaking in. And if I heard “gumbo” one more time… Grrrr.
The characters have the promise of depth, but we didn’t get to see much of it last night. Too many bullets, and not enough humanity.
But I’ll stick with it and see what they deliver in coming weeks. And they better. FOX still owes me for cancelling Firefly.
My personal fave is when Houmas House is immediately placed on a New Orleans street with the help of jump cuts. For everybody’s info, there’s a river levee across the street from the plantation, not a seedy industrial view.
And Anthony Anderson’s assertion in the coming attractions for next week that “Black men like lots of hot sauce” is asinine. Geaux Saints. Watch their game nextw eek instead, y’all.
hehehe, growth of third leg and appendages, hehehe
Kaja the jazz singer didn’t sing Wade in the Water very well. Nearly all of my female students claim they could do it much better, and they can.
Where’s my link?
Yeah, I would’ve shot her myself for butchering that song so bad.