EPISODE
SEASON
Treme - Season 4
Season 4 opens with New Orleans celebrating the election of Barack Obama. Desautel opens her own Bywater restaurant. LaDonna rebuilds Gigi's bar. School band director Batiste gets invested in his students' lives.
4 July 1984, Metairie, Louisiana, USA
11 October 1953, Hamilton, Massachusetts, USA
November 26, 2013
Even with the occasional ray of hope, Simon's general outlook is too bleak to provide much consolation, either for his characters or for the show's small but loyal audience.
December 02, 2013
[Treme brings] back the many fine and occasionally interlocking characters amid a vivid depiction of a town reeling still from hurricane and neglect, but nurtured by its joyous music.
January 28, 2014
Never as immediately gripping as The Wire, Treme still had its virtues, which the show's small, but loyal fanbase can fill you in on at length.
November 29, 2013
The final season of Treme, even as the series continues to overflow with the vitality of live music and an ever-evolving regional hash of international cultures, hangs on death.
January 02, 2014
I'm sorry to see it go, except that it went out on such a perfect note of bittersweet complexity -- like the culture it celebrates and mourns and suggests will endure anyway, it's something to have been relished even as it's come to a close.
December 05, 2013
It's to the credit of the show's creators, David Simon and Eric Overmyer, that these characters have become so familiar and alive in only 30-plus episodes.
December 03, 2013
Treme has had a bumpier run than might have been expected, but it looks like we may be getting the killer party at the end that the show, and city, deserve.
December 01, 2013
Treme bids a fond and tuneful farewell to characters a few of us have come to love and to storylines that went deeply enough into the challenges of rebuilding lives in New Orleans to be considered as much journalism as TV drama.
December 02, 2013
Full of intriguing characters, fine actors, music and Big Easy "atmosphere," Treme -- it's pronounced "TreMAY," by the way -- never caught on, and now seems as good a time as any to ask why.
January 31, 2014
There's not a weak performance in the bunch.