First scene ( indicating the core theme of this season) -- second line for a passed, local musician, "I'll Fly Away." Cops bust it up. Anger stews. Antoine Batiste gets arrested. The feelings for the show, and New Orleans all flood back...
Final Scene -- Terry on a quiet French Quarter Street, worried that his F.E.M.A trailer is contaminated. Ruminates on his ex-wife saying maybe N.O. isn't right for him. Afterall, 'only dreamers and drunks' stay in New Orleans. He takes a look at a local street urchin sharing a taste for a po-boy, "Don't ever change."
Favorite line: "What's there to do that's fun in Indianapolis?" -- Lt. Terry Colson
Second favorite line: "I'm not an adult, I'm a musician." -- Antoine Batistte
Here's a New Yorker review.
And some words from David Simon on the themes percolating in Season 3:
"Everything comes with a cost," Simon says. "That doesn't mean you don't take it. That doesn't mean that you walk away from the money at all points. Money is in neutral. It's the way in which it wraps itself that you have to struggle with and debate.
"A lot of the people who have had the most successful and influential musical careers in America came from New Orleans," Simon continues. "They had to leave New Orleans to do it. Nobody knew who Louis Armstrong was in New Orleans; he had to go to Chicago for that. Staying has its beauties and delights but it also has its costs."
"When you are living in a town that has a retrograde police department, and a disastrous school system, and one of the most corrupt civic governments in the history of the republic, and you still don't want to live anywhere else, the town is doing something right," he says. "Katrina led a lot of New Orleanians to reflect on ... why they can't live anywhere else. It led a lot of people to think about what it is they value in life as part of this community and to hold on to that and do everything possible to serve it and maintain it.
"That's the affirming thing that I find fascinating," Simon continues. "In my opinion, what saved the city, to the extent the city has been saved, has been the city's culture. Not its political leadership. Not the money that was ostensibly directed or misdirected. It's not economics. It's not political. It's community and it's cultural. That's the one thing that New Orleans has gotten right in such a firm and unequivocal way."
"That's the affirming thing that I find fascinating," Simon continues. "In my opinion, what saved the city, to the extent the city has been saved, has been the city's culture. Not its political leadership. Not the money that was ostensibly directed or misdirected. It's not economics. It's not political. It's community and it's cultural. That's the one thing that New Orleans has gotten right in such a firm and unequivocal way."
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