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Treme is back for a final five episodes. The critical acclaimed HBO show about Post-Katrina New Orleans headed up by David Simon (The Wire) returns to the Sunday night lineup at 10pm ET on December 1st.
HBO said:New Orleans, 38 months after Hurricane Katrina: Barack Obama has just been elected to the White House, giving this battered, majority-black city reason for optimism. Yet for every entrenched resident who hopes to improve his or her lot or just return to a sense of pre-Katrina normalcy others are intent on capitalizing on the citys vulnerability and suffocating its culture.
Created by David Simon (HBOs The Wire, Generation Kill and The Corner) and Eric Overmyer (St. Elsewhere, Homicide: Life on the Street and HBOs The Wire), the Peabody Award-winning drama series TREME returns for its five-episode conclusion SUNDAY, DEC. 1 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO. Beginning in Nov. 2008 and culminating at Mardi Gras 2009, the new season revisits the musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians and other familiar New Orleanians who continue to rebuild their lives, their homes and their culture in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane that caused the near-death of an American city.
Heightened by a historic presidential election, the promise of economic and cultural recovery in New Orleans is tempered by sobering economics, continued police corruption and the ongoing specter of violence and crime. More than three years after the flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina, nothing in the civic firmament seems to work as it should. New Orleanians are subject to corrupt and brutal law enforcement, a fragile school system and economic priorities that almost willfully exclude the people who need help.
But one thing works: The culture.
In this improbable city, which is responsible for some of Americas greatest cultural gifts, the protagonists of TREME can rely on little, other than a sense of what they can, and must, create that gives life in New Orleans power and value. Here, the multiculturalism that has created and sustained the Crescent City a blend that is French and Caribbean, Spanish and African-American and American is a value embraced and understood by those who cant imagine living anywhere else. By such currency, New Orleans keeps its people committed to it, despite the odds.
The ensemble cast of TREME includes: Wendell Pierce (HBOs The Wire) as Antoine Batiste; Khandi Alexander (HBOs The Corner) as LaDonna Batiste-Williams; Clarke Peters (HBOs The Wire and The Corner) as Albert Lambreaux; Rob Brown (Stop-Loss) as Delmond Lambreaux; Steve Zahn (A Perfect Getaway) as Davis McAlary; Kim Dickens (HBOs Deadwood) as Janette Desautel; Melissa Leo (Oscar® winner for The Fighter) as Toni Bernette; Lucia Micarelli (classical violinist) as Annie Tee; Michiel Huisman (The Young Victoria) as Sonny; David Morse (HBOs John Adams) as Terry Colson; Jon Seda (HBOs The Pacific) as Nelson Hidalgo; India Ennenga (The Women) as Sofia Bernette; and Chris Coy (HBOs True Blood) as L.P. Everett.
As ever, TREME will feature live performances of New Orleans music in its natural environment, the clubs and streets and homes of the city. Musicians featured in season four include John Boutté, Kermit Ruffins, Michael Doucet, Davis Rogan, Don B, Guitar Lightnin Lee, Ellis Marsalis, Troy Trombone Shorty Andrews, Terence Blanchard, Aurora Nealand, Corey Glover, Ed Gerrard, Christie Jourdain, Jon Cleary, Donald Harrison, Jr., Kidd Jordan, Dr. John, Jon Batiste, Charmaine Neville and Tom McDermott.
Culinary guest actors this season include David Chang and Emeril Lagasse.
Videos and Links:
- Treme Season 4: Extended Trailer
- Treme Season 4: Long Lead Tease
- Treme Season 4: Invitation to the Set
- Treme Season 4: Trailer
- Treme Season 4: Long Lead Tease
- Treme Season 4: Invitation to the Set
- Treme Season 4: Trailer
Links
- HBO site
- Wikipedia
- Treme Explained
- Variety: As Treme Refrain Ends, Creator David Simon Sings TV Blues
- Wikipedia
- Treme Explained
- Variety: As Treme Refrain Ends, Creator David Simon Sings TV Blues
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