Luhrmann writes and directs the 1st episode only - and it shows. The show gets dramatically better from the 2nd episode onwards. It was as if Luhrmann didn't really understand the world of the characters, trying to turn it into West Side Story 2.0.

I don't think Sepinwall and Fienberg were ambivalent about Treme
In fact Sepinwall had an article commenting on how terrific he thought the second season was. Now Fienberg was closer to ambivalent, noting a lot of mistakes with the season (the Nelson and Toni storylines for the most part) but I think he was unfair in…