Treme: Season 4

New Orleans, 38 months after. Barack Obama has just been elected to the White House, giving entrenched residents of this still-battered city reason for optimism. Yet for everyone who hopes to improve their lot--or just return to a sense of pre-Katrina normalcy--others are intent on capitalizing on the city's vulnerability and suffocating its culture. Throughout the final five episodes, including the 76-minute series finale, which take place between November 2008 and Mardi Gras 2009, the promise of recovery is tempered by sobering economics, continued police corruption, and the ongoing specter of violence and crime.