Yeah, it's not Zahn that's the problem. The character is a straight-up narcissistic asshole. It's good that that series lets you know occasionally that it's not completely on DJ Davis's side, but there's far too many situations where I think we're supposed to find his behavior to be McNulty-style charming.

The worst part is I've met too many types like him, so the cringing is partly from personal experience. Definitely strikes me as a generalized urban type rather than a NO specific one.

Based on a real guy, DJ Davis Rogan. My sister says the real guy is way more obnoxious.

I think we're supposed to find his behavior to be McNulty-style charming.

Yeah, I'm hoping that he really is intended to be wearing the giant blinking neon "douchenozzle" sign that I see above his head; if it turns out that the writers think we're supposed to think he's really a great guy under at all, I'll have to start throwing things, and I don't like to do that to my tv.

I'm worried about the street musician couple because of what happened to the people Bob thinks they may be based on (he has a good friend in Treme and has been down there quite a bit including a couple of months after Katrina. He saw the first 2nd Line parade after the storm actually).

Then again I worried the whole time that the Wire was on that the Dawson family fire would come up. So heartbreaking.

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There aren't too many guys that can carry that off like Bushy Top. My friend Andrea says that she thinks DW can hypnotize(or I suppose it's hypnotise, for him) folks with his eyebrows. Because I can think of at least three times, independent of "Yes!No. Maybe," where I thought I'd want to kill Jimmy, if he was a guy in my life, but somehow, when it was all said and done, he got my sympathy anyway. I still wonder how he does it...I'm not discounting the eyebrow theory.

I like Treme, but I readily admit it is a style of tv watching that I don't recall doing before. I am literally along for the ride with this show. I am not trying to figure anything out. I am enjoying the pace and the surprises.

I'm worried about the street musician couple because of what happened to the people Bob thinks they may be based on

There's been a lot of discussion about this elsewhere on the Interwebs. I really hope that this isn't the way they go. But they might. I've been a little worried that they might work the filmmaker Helen Hill's story into Melissa Leo's character. But I'm willing to let Simon & co work these out the way they see fit.

I'm a bit worried for John Goodman's character both based on who he's inspired by (don't remember the name, but I saw it mentioned in a writeup on Treme/Simon) and the fact that he's not in the main credits, only the end ones.

I'm so stoked that ML is in this...I know that Simon said(anyone else picturing a really fucked-up kids game, here..."reach for the sky, motherfucker...you didn't say "Simon said,") he enjoyed working with her very much and did not find her difficult, but at the time I thought maybe his standards for difficult weren't like others') It must be true, though. he asked her back.

don't remember the name, but I saw it mentioned in a writeup on Treme/Simon

Ashley Morris

Don't know anything about Melissa Leo personally vis-a-vis difficulty.