By Ben Colins
Music in "Shallow Water, Oh Mama," the sixth episode of "Treme," is so pervasive that it sometimes overtakes dialogue altogether. Lyrics replace direct emotion. Energy from performances visually beat off frustration. The parade in the episode's final scene allows the characters some solace for once: Things can end smoothly and beautifully — just as long as there's still a beat.
"I Was a Little Too Lonely" by Nat King Cole
The first song in "Shallow Water, Oh Mama" is probably also its most expository. Nat King Cole's "I Was a Little Too Lonely" plays out of a battery-charged stereo in a still-unlit project home, as Albert Lambreaux tends to his Indian headdresses, whittling down the feathers so they fit in a garment’s whole. It is these sorts of deft and subtle touches that turn creator David Simon's work from merely great television into appropriately-heralded masterpieces.
Music in "Shallow Water, Oh Mama," the sixth episode of "Treme," is so pervasive that it sometimes overtakes dialogue altogether. Lyrics replace direct emotion. Energy from performances visually beat off frustration. The parade in the episode's final scene allows the characters some solace for once: Things can end smoothly and beautifully — just as long as there's still a beat.
"I Was a Little Too Lonely" by Nat King Cole
The first song in "Shallow Water, Oh Mama" is probably also its most expository. Nat King Cole's "I Was a Little Too Lonely" plays out of a battery-charged stereo in a still-unlit project home, as Albert Lambreaux tends to his Indian headdresses, whittling down the feathers so they fit in a garment’s whole. It is these sorts of deft and subtle touches that turn creator David Simon's work from merely great television into appropriately-heralded masterpieces.
- 5/17/2010
- by MTV News
- MTV Newsroom
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