Treme - Season 4 - December Episode Descriptions

Episode #32: “Yes We Can Can”
Debut: SUNDAY, DEC. 1 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT)
Other HBO playdates: Dec. 1 (11:00 p.m.), 3 (11:00 p.m.), 4 (10:00 p.m.) and 5 (2:15 a.m.)
HBO2 playdates: Dec. 2 (10:00 p.m.), 6 (8:00 p.m.), 7 (11:00 p.m.) and 14 (10:00 p.m.)
New Orleans celebrates 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.
Teleplay by David Simon; story by David Simon & Eric Overmyer & George Pelecanos; directed by Anthony Hemingway.

Episode #33: “This City”
Debut: SUNDAY, DEC. 8 (9:00-10:00 p.m.)
Other HBO playdates: Dec. 8 (11:00 p.m.), 10 (11:00 p.m.), 11 (10:00 p.m.) and 12 (1:30 a.m.)
HBO2 playdates: Dec. 9 (10:00 p.m.), 13 (8:00 p.m.), 14 (11:00 p.m.) and 21 (10:00 p.m.)
Lambreaux learns his cancer has spread; Delmond plays with Terence Blanchard in New York; Annie wins song of the year for “This City”; violence strikes one of Batiste’s students.
Written by George Pelecanos; directed by Anthony Hemingway.

Episode #34: “Dippermouth Blues”
Debut: SUNDAY, DEC. 15 (9:00-10:00 p.m.)
Other HBO playdates: Dec. 15 (11:00 p.m.), 17 (11:00 p.m.), 18 (10:00 p.m.) and 19 (3:40 a.m.)
HBO2 playdates: Dec. 16 (10:00 p.m.), 20 (8:00 p.m.), 21 (11:00 p.m.) and 28 (10:00 p.m.)
McAlary and Desautel spend New Year’s Eve together; Batiste picks up a movie job; LaDonna comforts Lambreaux; Colson offers to testify, and the NOPD retaliates.
Written by Eric Overmyer; directed by Ernest Dickerson.

Episode #35: “Sunset on Louisianne”
Debut: SUNDAY, DEC. 22 (9:00-10:00 p.m.)
Other HBO playdates: Dec. 22 (11:00 p.m.), 24 (11:00 p.m.), 25 (10:00 p.m.) and 26 (2:50 a.m.)
HBO2 playdates: Dec. 23 (10:00 p.m.), 27 (8:00 p.m.) and 28 (11:00 p.m.)
McAlary celebrates his 40th; Bernette gets a break in her case; Annie dumps her band; Lambreaux insists that Delmond carry on as Big Chief after he’s gone; Everett returns to New Orleans.
Written by David Simon; directed by Alex Hall.

Episode #36: “…To Miss New Orleans” (series finale)
Debut: SUNDAY, DEC. 29 (9:00-10:15 p.m.)
Other HBO playdates: Dec. 29 (11:15 p.m.) and 31 (11:00 p.m.)
HBO2 playdate: Dec. 30 (10:00 p.m.)
Colson is offered a transfer; guardians send Lambreaux home; Batiste takes his sons to a Dr. John gig; Hidalgo returns to Texas; McAlary revisits his pothole, now decorated.
Written by David Simon & Eric Overmyer; directed by Agnieszka Holland.