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SoHo Highlight: Treme (Sky 10, 9.30, 5.1) LaDonna confronts the return of the crime problem; Sofia channels her father’s YouTube rants; Toni takes the Abreu case; Janette and Albert apply for Road Home money; Sonny barely escapes arrest. ”The return of crime to New Orleans is one of the key subjects of Treme season two,” notes critic [...]

SoHo Highlight: Treme (Sky 10, 9.30, 5.1) Antoine decides to form a band; Vincent Abreu drops a suspicious death case on Toni; Hidalgo makes lucrative connections; Sonny realises playing music on the street is a dead end. “We’re now 15 months after the storm, and the consequences keep rolling in,” the AV Club said of the post-Katrina New Orleans [...]

SoHo Highlight: Treme (Sky 10, 9.30, 5.1) Second-season premiere: Antoine contemplates a move while LaDonna resists one; Colson contends with the return of crime to New Orleans; Annie returns from a national tour; in New York, Delmond debuts his new album. As Newsday pleaded: “Please watch this show. Really. It’s excellent on far too many levels to enumerate here, but [...]

SoHo Highlight: Treme (Sky 10, 9.30, 5.1) Season finale: Toni’s concerns about Creighton turn to anger; a funeral procession offers its mourners a chance to reflect on the events of the last year in New Orleans. Said Time: “Treme finished its first season with a finale that very much mirrored its pilot: sprawling, wide-ranging, deliberately paced, and — at about [...]

SoHo Highlight: Treme (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) Davis concocts a remedy for the post-Mardi Gras blues; Annie makes a decision that Sonny takes personally; Colson warns Albert to avoid trouble on St Joseph’s night. The AV Club dubbed Wish Someone Would Care, in which a key character dies, “a hell of an episode“. It was written by George [...]

SoHo Highlight: Treme (Sky 10, 9.30, 5.1) Toni tracks down a former cop in search of clues about Daymo; Janette considers suspending operations; the Bernettes make a splash at the Krewe du Vieux parade. As The AV Club said of this series six episodes in: “[Creator David] Simon and his writers are unsparing in drawing out the instances of corruption, inefficiency, [...]

SoHo Highlight: Treme (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) Albert presses Councilman Ron Singleton to reopen housing projects; Annie fails to embrace Sonny’s houseguest; the city celebrates the return of displaced residents with a second-line parade. “Five episodes in, what started as a rambling, atmospheric show is developing a definite thread and focus,” Time said, “while still widening its scope in this very [...]

SoHo Highlight: Treme (Sky 10, 9.30, 5.1) Antoine heads to Baton Rouge to visit his sons; LaDonna and Toni probe a case of mistaken identity; Albert’s Indians bury their Wild Man. The Guardian said episode four was a treat for fans of creator David Simon’s previous series, The Wire, because it features three more recruits from that show’s cast. “In [...]

SoHo Highlight: Treme (Sky 10, 9.30, 5.1) Albert finds the body of his ‘Wild Man’; Davis barters freedom for piano lessons; Antoine hits rock bottom; Annie (Lucia Micarelli, above) gets a birthday gig. This may be the finest drama series on SoHo but the AV Club’s Scott Tobias make a valid point when he writes: “Great as David [...]

SoHo Highlight: Treme (Sky 10, 9.30, 5.1) Of all the outstanding series on SoHo, this newcomer from The Wire’s David Simon is the best — although it’s so painstakingly executed that it needs to screen in double-episodes to reward patience with momentum. As the New York Times observed: “This is an elliptically told tale, and it takes a few episodes for the [...]