‘Treme’: Season 2 DVD review
Treme continues to be a surprisingly optimistic, stunningly realized love-letter to a stricken city.
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Treme continues to be a surprisingly optimistic, stunningly realized love-letter to a stricken city.
This series has been far from as strong as previous years, thanks to a group of ‘cut out and keep’ candidates more suited to a stationery cupboard than a spotlight.
The Battle of the Blackwater is one of the biggest events in the series. Would a TV show be able to translate such an epic onto the small screen?
Episode 3 sees Clive’s white ribbon brief return him to the world of halls, gowns and jumped up drinking societies that is Oxford.
Featuring work from some of the best of British filmmaking talent, this new anthology is a mixed but thoughtful collection of engrossing examples of gay cinema in the UK.
Thing’s are tough for Mia (Chloë Sevigny) – the most likeable professional assassin since Francisco Scaramanga.
For all the film’s breathtaking landscapes and outfits, there’s a sense of something being kept back most likely to meet the film’s 12A certificate.
If this episode lacked much in the way of incident, it featured some great individual performances and if we know anything it’s that after the calm, must come the storm.
Hell on Wheels isn’t anywhere near full tilt just yet, but it’s certainly picking up steam.
Given the dramatic events that have rocked this series of Lip Service from the very start, it’s almost a relief that the finale ends as quietly as it does.