Treme

Treme is an american series set in New Orleans as the regugees from the floods make their way back to the city to restart their lives. The show is named after one of the districts of the city, which appears to be a pretty run-down, almost third-world place - certainly not one where the tourists would go.
I only made it through 1 episode, it didn't appear to be going anywhere and I couldn't really see why it had been made. It did appear to be a "guilt" piece: that america was ashamed of how it ignored the plight of the poor people who were stuck in the city and then ignored by their government, after all the rich people had made their own way to somewhere away from the strife. This was their way of doing penance, or recognising, the situation.

I didn't find any of the characters particularly deep, or worthy of the time spent watching them. It was as if the writers had decided they needed a certain number of various types of people and had created back-histories for them, based on what they thought people would/should sympathise with - I didn't. I also didn't have any real engagement about the story: there have been and will be refugees in lots of parts of the world, and I didn't feel the problems experienced by these ones to be particularly profound. It appeared to be, basically, a soap and not one that evoked sympathy or interest.