<p>In <em>Treme</em>, Jaimey Fisher analyzes how the HBO television series <em>Treme</em> (2010-13) treads new ground by engaging with historical events and their traumatic aftermaths, in particular with Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and subsequent flooding in New Orleans. Instead of building up to a devastating occurrence, David Simon&#39;s much anticipated follow-up to <em>The Wire</em> (2002-08) unfolds with characters coping in the wake of catastrophe, in a mode that Fisher explores as 'afterness.' <em>Treme</em> charts these changes while also memorializing the number of New Orleans cultures that were immediately endangered.</p><p>David Simon&#39;s and Eric Overmyer&#39;s <em>Treme </em>attempts something unprecedented for a multi-season series. Although the show follows, in some ways, in the celebrated footsteps of <em>The Wire</em>-for example, in its elegiac tracking of the historical struggles of an American city-Fisher investigates how <em>Treme</em> varies from <em>The Wire</em>&#39;s work with genre and what replaces it: <em>The Wire</em> is a careful, even baroque variation on the police drama, while <em>Treme</em> dispenses with genre altogether. This poses considerable challenges for popular television, which Simon and Overmyer address in several ways, including by offering a carefully montaged map of New Orleans and foregrounding the distance witnessing of watershed events there. Another way in which <em>Treme</em> sets itself apart is its memorialization of the city&#39;s inestimable contributions to American music, especially to jazz, soul, rhythm and blues, rap, rock, and funk. <em>Treme</em> gives such music and its many makers unprecedented attention, both in terms of screen time for music and narrative exposition around musicians. A key element of the volume is its look at the show&#39;s themes of race, crime, and civil rights as well as the corporate versus community recovery and remaking of the city.</p><p><em>Treme</em>&#39;s synthesizing m?lange of the arts in their specific geographical context, coupled with political and socio-economic analysis of the city, highlights the show&#39;s unique approach. Fans of the works of Simon and Overmyer, as well as television studies students and scholars, will enjoy this keen-eyed approach to a beloved show.</p>